Making a poster for an upcoming conference this summer?
Here are some hints I got from a recent workshop:
-Less is more [don’t write an essay]
-Colour is a must [black & white is boring]
-Creativity [throw in a cool picture or quote]
-Font size [don’t need a magnifying glass]
-Images/plots should be the focus
-Delineate sections with titles or borders [organization/structure]
-Would you stop to read it if you were at a conference?
Feel free to add your suggestions/comments!
Why is an astronaut like a football player?
They both want touchdowns!
Q. What’s the most popular snack on Mars?
A. Marshmallows.
How do you know that Saturn is married more than once? Because he has lots of rings.
How does Jupiter hold up his trousers? With an asteroid belt.
The Heineken Uncertainty Principle says “You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.”
$15^15$, that I can remember. $3 + frac{pi}{4} mathrm{,lol}$.
I recently stumbled upon the perfect combination of ambient music and space-nerd geekdom. And it was right in iTunes (or equivalently on the web). SomaFM Mission Control is the bomb. Space-ambient music, but mixed in and out in the mix is the space to ground chatter between the astronauts and MC from Apollo and STS missions. Reminds me of as a young lad spending hours and hours in front of the TV during Mercury, Gemini and early Apollo missions. For a time most of my brain stored stats from hockey cards and NASA acyromns (anybody remember BECO, don’t know why just one of my faves).
“if I put this cable on from that side it will be twisted”
“roger, go 317 az”
“nope that will wrap”…….
And excuse me if I say niner instead of 9.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo]
Image enhancement gone wild showing intricate fluid flow over airfoils and the associated condensation phenomena.
In this columnist and University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist questions the need for the recent agreement between the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada (which includes UWO) and its controversial new agreement with Access Copyright, which will cost students an extra $26 per full time student per year, in large part to get copyright access to materials that they can already access! Geist, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, says
If that wasn’t enough, the model licence purports to grants rights for copying that does not require permission. For example, it defines copying as including “posting a link or hyperlink to a digital copy”, yet linking to content can hardly be described as copying materials.
If would even prevent storing articles in cloud services such as Dropbox! I’m not going to get too excited since the company is covering my costs on this one so what the heck.
But maybe you should!
Birds and physics, physics and birds, like peanut butter and jelly or rum and coke, right? Sure. So who was surprised this month when reading this story about how some migratory birds sense optimum pressure gradient situations to ride the pressure ridges on fronts to save time and energy, such as the godwit (shown below).
Keeping up with the godwits is hard work. Not to be outdone, new evidence has come to light concerning the magnetic sensing abilities of pigeons. Scientists at Baylor University have found that cells in the bird’s inner ears that sense the magnetic field vector. Furthermore, it appears the hippocampus region of the brain in these birds allows them to store maps to navigate. The same brain activity occurs in people. Bird-brained indeed!