Chasing the Beast: El Reno tornado kills storm chaser Tim Samaras
Some details on what happened to Tim Samaras and his crew.
Surely you're a creep, Mr Feynman
Article about the common whitewashed portrayal of Feynman, and other men in science who have been terribly sexist, or worse.
Can a biologist fix a radio?
"Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis"
Amusing paper talking about how biologists approach problems, or something.
Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
A critical review of a book about sleep that I've seen lots of people uncritically rave about.
This is how science happens
An article exploring, in some part, the idea that science works as well as it does because failure is a feature and is (or should be) embraced.
I wish software development would do this more too.
sliderulemuseum.com
Online course where you can teach yourself how to use a sliderule.
One day.... One day...
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
Synthetic biology is among the most hyped research topics this century, and in 2010 it entered its teenage years. But rather than these being a problematic time, we’ve seen synthetic biology blossom and deliver many new technologies and landmark achievements.
In 2020 synthetic biology turned 20 years old. It’s first decade saw some impressive research papers, lots of visionary thinking and unprecedented excitement, but its second decade—from 2010 to 2020—was when the hype really needed to be replaced by some real achievements. So how has it done?
Roche - Biochemical Pathways
I dunno really but it's cool.
Does contact tracing work
Paper about the problems with the English contract-tracing scheme, with particular emphasis on the issues with the use of Excel.
Iceberger
How would that iceberg really float? Lots of illustrations that show "the $FOO iceberg" show a berg floating in an orientation that's very unlikely. This site lets you draw the vague outline and see how it might really end up.
Why the magic?
Blog post musing over why some mushrooms are magic.
Designing a Lego orrery
Pretty amazing build with Lego.
Astronomical Algorithms
PDF of a book I've long wanted to get my hands on!