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pinterest thursday november 11 2010 rolling nowhere today my group in j669 gave our midterm presentation on ted conover s rolling nowhere the book is conover s first which was published in 1984 the premise is that as a young anthropology student conover spent four months riding around the county in empty boxcars with the homeless he did it as an experiment for his thesis but after he returned from the trip and finished his degree he decided to turn his personal narrative of the experience into a book i am pretty happy with the way our presentation went i have an unfortunate cold so i was a little worried i would lose my voice or have to keep blowing my nose and be obnoxious while the members of my group were presenting but robitussin arguably one of the worst tasting substances known to man kept my symptoms in check long enough to get through our 1 1 2 hour discussion my contribution to our analysis was to compare and contrast conover with the other authors that we ve read as part of our class work for j669 i also contributed a little to the questions and discussion that we had after we all presented the parts we prepared individually we talked a lot about the ethics involved in immersion reporting and whether or not it would even be possible to give an accurate portrayal of homeless life given that conover was an upper middle class college kid overall i think it was a success the class definitely helped us out by participating in the discussion and bringing up issues of their own to talk about after i asked the first question they really ran with it prompted by deb and we didn t have to add much more to keep the class talking for another 15 minutes its always good when you can fill the entire time you are allotted and we did that so i m optimistic i also got another paper back in j620 today and it was another a so i m two for two in that class which is also good i m definitely headed into the home stretch of this semester the only assignments i have left are my finals and one more book for j669 sebastian junger s war it has gone incredibly fast posted by unknown at 1 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest what makes a cat tongue news ok so earlier this week i questioned what made the study on cricket testicles news and now here i am again questioning why a scientific find is in the news courtesy of the bbc mystery of how cats lap is revealed by rebecca morelle is really stretching it in my opinion i can understand how you might observe a cat lapping up water and be curious about how they do it so well but i really don t see why this is breaking news perhaps it is a slow day for science source wikimedia commons when did the biggest scientific discoveries become cricket balls and cat tongues can t we do better than that aren t we we spend millions of dollars on research how are these the best stories out there and i assume these must have been best as they led the bbc s science coverage on the days they each ran i am going to go out on a limb and say that stories like this are caused by the need to publish something anything quickly with the internet it is shifting from the quality of a story to the number of stories that you can produce i think its sad that the best the bbc is putting out is high speed video of a cat drinking as their science news this isn t going to entice readers to start giving a damn about science we can t just cover every single scientific finding as journalists it is our job to determine what stories are the most interesting to track down obscure threads and follow them until you get a story that no one else has and to inform the public about the scientific findings that they need to know about i think there are very few people out there that would say they really needed to know about cricket testicles and cat tongues seeing stories like this makes me want to change the journalistic system i don t blame the writer she wrote the story she was assigned i blame the fact that no one is willing to spend the money on investigative in depth reporting anymore give reporters the resources and we ll deliver the goods without the support journalists need to get the good stories you re gonna get cricket balls posted by unknown at 1 29 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 10 2010 scientists peer into their crystal ball one of the stories highlighted on the science pages of the new york times this week is a multimedia piece called voices what s next in science by carl zimmer i think the piece is interesting to note because it uses audio clips pictures and short write ups to give an overview of what scientists in a variety of disciplines predict will be hot topics in their field in the coming year the scientific areas featured are space science conservation ecology ocean science game design climate change genomics neuroscience engineering biotechnology and mathematics i found these choices a little puzzling what about stem cells or biomedical research as a whole the piece includes engineering and mathematics but ignores physics and chemistry why also while i find science gaming interesting and i think its a great new field for encouraging people to become interested in science i don t see how it fits in with the other specialities i also find it interesting that they use the term conservation ecology which is specific and scientific but then they use the term ocean science as a lump term for all the specialities that involve the ocean and the same for space it doesn t really seem cohesive for me to flip flop between specific and general the audio clips and the fact that the write ups are so short make this a very accessible article that i think even people who don t typically read science news could be interested in it is a good example of how to use multimedia without having to go terribly out of your way as a journalist posted by unknown at 2 19 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 9 2010 creepy crawlies on the brain tarantula at the davinci science center allentown pa credit erin podolak july 2008 i m not scared of many things i love snakes heights roller coasters and being in the dark most of the typical things that freak people out don t have much of an effect on me except spiders i can t stand spiders i think my fear of spiders stems back to being told that every year in our sleep humans eat an average of eight spiders without even knowing it imagining a spider creeping along my skin and the way their little legs would feel definitely freaks me out i m not so afraid that i ll run away or anything but some shrieking is usually in order researchers are now using tarantula s to help study fear reactions in the brain i think brain research is really interesting considering how little we actually know about how the human brain works figuring out how the brain controls all the things we think and do can tell us a lot about ourselves i feel the same way about genetics and studying our genetic code tarantula helps scientists map how brains process fear was featured in the la times posted by unknown at 8 03 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest promiscuous crickets the article cricket testicle size clue to promiscuous mating in the bbc was just too good to pass up for a blog post i mean come on cricket testicles who wouldn t chuckle source ehow the researchers found that bushcrickets have the largest testicles of any organism accounting for 14 of the cricket s total body weight the study correlated the large testicles with the promiscuity of the organism the more the organism gets around the larger the balls that this is news and that thousands of dollars were probably spent determining this makes me laugh and then makes me question why we spend our time and money investigating some things i want to know what good is going to come of knowing that crickets have the largest testicles because aside from just expanding humanity s knowledge of insect sex i don t really get a lot of value out of this posted by unknown at 7 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 4 2010 sea anemones there is no real point to publishing this image other than that i just think it is cool and very pretty it was on wikipedia commons as the picture of the day which is how i found it side note has it become obvious yet how much i love wikimedia commons this image is from the book the royal natural history by richard lydekker which dates back to 1893 posted by unknown at 3 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a little politics since this is a science and journalism blog i try to stay out of politics that is why i didn t offer my commentary on tuesday s midterm elections most of the attention in the california election went to the defeat of proposition 19 legalization of marijuana but i think the defeat of proposition 23 is also important to note the proposition was a move to suspend california s regulations on green house gas emissions backed by oil companies according to the la times industry in silicon valley which is investing billions in clean energy opposed the propositions and may have added to the surprising defeat the la times article prop 23 battle marks new era in environmental politics is an interesting read for the way it chronicles the cross over between science environmental activism and politics i have a particular interest in the way that scientific information can shape policy through informing the public as one of the first major public votes on issues related to climate change and global warming i find these results surprising but encouraging but then again it is just california when texas stands up to oil companies and makes moves to reduce green house gas emissions and invest in alternative energy then i ll be impressed but for now we have a small political victory for climate science posted by unknown at 3 23 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 3 2010 help me obi wan kenobi my experience with holograms doesn t extend much farther than princess leia s secret message to obi wan kenobi entrusted to r2d2 in the first star wars movie released but really the fourth story in the series a new hope yeah nerd alert i m ok with it anyway star wars has shown us that holograms are something used in a galaxy far far away certainly not here on earth and certainly not in present day but alas star wars has led me wrong source wikimedia commons new research from the university of arizona is close to making holograms a reality so far the group is able to film a video image and beam it to a new location where it updates in near real time the research team has been working to improve the speed at which the images are conveyed and has gotten them as fast as every two seconds video with a continuous flow of images like princess leia s famous message is just around the corner the bbc article by jonathan amos hologram messaging coming of age breaks down the process like this 1 a series of cameras arranged in a semi circle take multiple images of a person or object from lots of different angles 2 the images are fed into a computer where they are processed and then sent to another computer at a different location 3 a specially designed 3d printing system receives the images and based on the information contained in them controls a laser that writes the images onto a screen made of a special plastic 4 the special plastic screen can update every two seconds but a light source is needed to be able to see the changing holograms the researchers say that holograms will be useful for manufacturing to update plans or blueprints as workers are designing new models i think it has value simply for being cool and for proving to star wars geeks that it could actually happen well at least the hologram part posted by unknown at 4 49 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest that s not your real name is it aloysius hoffenhorse it was then that i knew this guy was feeding me bull shit my j800 teacher is pregnant and went into labor this morning so rather than cancel class she sent us out at 9am to go on a journalism scavenger hunt while interviewing people on the street to see what they thought of the election last night as was required for the assignment i met the afore mentioned mr hoffenhorse he looked perfectly inconspicuous nicely dressed in jeans and a button down shirt with a sweater over it he was smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee sitting on a cement planter up near the capital i approached and asked if he would mind answering a few questions about the election i explained that i was a journalism graduate student and i would appreciate it if he could provide a few comments to help me with my assignment he agreed to talk to me but as soon as i asked him his name i knew he was just going to feed me a bunch of crap before i gave up he also told me that he learned who won the election based solely on his instincts no media necessary and that if i needed to reach him i could feel free to email him at blackerthanblackhaseverbeen yahoo com why must people fuck with me i just wanted to know what newspapers or tv stations he followed he could have said he didn t want to be interviewed instead he wasted my time for his own entertainment it was pretty funny but at the same time i was really frustrated with the assignment i don t think i learned anything from doing it i already knew that the world is full of characters that often make your job more difficult i didn t need to freeze my ass off scrambling around for three hours to learn that posted by unknown at 2 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 2 2010 harry potter scourge of the owls new research out of india is drawing a correlation between a spike in the black market trade of owls and the popular harry potter books and movies apparently the stories which feature a white owl named hedwig have led to a surge of people seeking owls as pets as well as for what the bbc calls black magic rituals source wikimedia commons as a reader i am interested in the research methods used to draw the correlation between the loss of owls and harry potter i wish the article talked more about how the researcher came to his conclusion because simply noting the popularity of a series that features an owl as a minor character i think its minor i ve never actually read a single one of the harry potter books is a far cry from actually quantifying its connection to a decrease in owls this type of investigation reminds me of the correlations made between video games and violence or metal music and violence i think that how 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