I'm a "dirt-ologist". I love studying the interface of human and environment interaction, often asking the rather rhetorical question: "Do we change the landscape, or does the landscape change us?"
I also captain the ISS Insanitekian, a startup adventure of a lifetime.
When students wander around campus, they aren’t looking at people judgementally and wondering if their fellow classmates are homeless. In fact, they generally assume all students are not homeless. I, personally, can attest to that with my own story, but it never occurred to me to look beyond myself to others that might be in …
Tucked away on a shelf in bookstores in Australia and available as print on demand is a book that has poetry, history, sociology, and political science all woven together expertly. You’d not find it on the non-fiction shelves where you’d expect such a book to lie, but rather in the non-fiction section. And in the …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. With recent fiscal challenges and public misunderstandings about science, the Acting Director of the National Science Foundation, Cora Marrett, pleaded the case for scientists to begin speaking out and doing some public relations about their research. The …
Grant cycles are, for the most part, a bane of a researcher’s existence. We spend countless wasted hours writing, editing, submitting, reviewing, and hoping for funding. Associate Professor Johan Bollen at Indiana University’s School of Informatics and his colleagues have come up with an interesting supplement to the traditional peer-review system that can streamline the …
Last week we talked about the potential in crowdfunding your research, and there is even some consideration to take here with the bigger picture. Crowdfunding not only gets some of that much-needed financing, but it also helps the broader impacts of your research. While this is a pretty sweet idea, there is one flaw with …
Hat tip to all the self-taught researchers and inventors out there.Â
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance My rating: 4 of 5 stars Like any book, you get out of it what you are looking for. I picked up Elon Musk as part of my research on inventors and entrepreneurs, so the approach I took was one from …
Cancer is a sticky subject. It gets us emotional, strikes fear into our hearts at the mere mention of it, and yet it’s unfairly common. So, how do you know if you’ll get the Big C? Some would say it’s a crap shoot and there is really know way to be sure. Others, the researchers …
The Mediterranean Sea is a delightful place to visit, but how much do you know about its geography? Ali Alarafat compiled this basic information to teach his fellow students at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Now, you can get the poster in the Insanitek store.
Bats. When most of us think of bats, we think of an ugly, rat like critter similar to the one preserved in the featured image. We don’t think of the small, cute, charismatic, graceful flyers that they really are. Seriously, how can you think this little guy is appalling? Liam McGuire, lead author and …