In other venues, I’ve lamented the fact that learning how to play with electronics has been one of my intellectual white whales. There are many, many books and web sites out there that exist to help people like me, but … Continue reading
Category Archives: Amateur Science
The San Francisco Bay Area is notorious for being full of people who have interesting ideas and, what’s more, are prone to act on them. Creativity is the lifeblood of the Bay Area not just in the sense that it … Continue reading
Pioneer science fiction author Jules Verne (1828-1905). Today is 08 February, the birthday of Jules Verne. To my mind, one of the truly great visionaries of the modern age. Here was a man who could write of skyscrapers and exploration … Continue reading
Preliminary note: I would have written this some time ago, but I’ve been beating my head against a wall trying to get YouTube videos to run in a window on this blog. So far, no go, so I must content … Continue reading
This past week I was in Washington DC on business. I’ve only been to DC a couple of times, and each time left little room on the schedule for sightseeing. But this time, as I was being driven back to … Continue reading
Some months ago I wrote about a project I am working on to create a new online network for science enthusiasts who want to carry out nature observation projects, share their data with others, and collaborate with other citizen scientists … Continue reading
Publishing is one of the big barriers that face independent scholars and amateur scientists. In years past, people who didn’t have a Ph.D. or some other kind of institutional affiliation didn’t have a snowball’s chance of getting published in a … Continue reading