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Armed with Science: Navy Hydrographers Provide Critical Mapping of Ocean Floor

February 4, 2009

Last week’s Armed with Science featured me interviewing Michael Jeffries, a Navy hydrogarapher. Ten points to anyone who knew about hydrography before this Journal entry. The original article can be found here. Navy Hydrographers Provide Critical Mapping of Ocean FloorBy John OhabSpecial to American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2009 – Advanced ocean-bottom mapping [...]

Top ten reasons not to use any variation of the word "Tweet"

January 30, 2009

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It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. It’s annoying.

Armed with Science: Naval Observatory Soon Will Track Time to 100 Trillionths of Second

January 20, 2009

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Press release for the premiere of Armed with Science. The article was taken from DefenseLink.mil. Naval Observatory Soon Will Track Time to 100 Trillionths of SecondBy John OhabSpecial to American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2009 – The ultra-precise timing technology that enables NAVSTAR Global Positioning Systems and high-speed Internet communication soon may resolve [...]

"Armed with Science" program mentioned in Wired Magazine

January 16, 2009

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Click here or read below. It’s your choice. The Pentagon’s Far-Out Science PodcastBy Nathan HodgeJanuary 15, 2009 Stick this in your iPod and smoke it: The U.S. Department of Defense is launching a new radio show audio webcast, “Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military.” I listened in to the first broadcast [...]

Dot Mil Docs article on 2008 Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien

January 13, 2009

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As it turns out, I will be hosting and writing articles for an upcoming radio program on blogtalkradio.com called “Armed with Science.” In the meantime, I am learning the ropes by writing press releases for an ongoing show Dot Mil Docs, which discusses issues relevant to military health. Here is an article I wrote for [...]

2009 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship: Call for Applications

November 19, 2008

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APPLY YOUR SCIENCE TO SERVE SOCIETY For 35 years, the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships have provided scientists and engineers with a unique opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to national and international issues in the federal policy realm, while learning first-hand about establishing and implementing policy. Fellows select assignments in Congressional offices [...]

Gain of Function, Loss of Function: The iPhone Year One

October 7, 2008

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The iPhone is a remarkable device that integrates three large products in one — a phone, an iPod, and a portal to the Internets. After a year with m’iPhone, I think it’s time to explore just a few of the key aspects that garnered so much attention from the start. The “scratch proof” screen: I [...]

SkyMall Fest 2008: Han(d) Solo

October 4, 2008

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Lopped off hand sold separately.

Followers

September 9, 2008

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As if you weren’t already inundated with a myriad of different ways to promote, support, join, or subscribe to your favorite blogs, journals, feeds, updates, reminders, and listservs, Blogger has added another gadget termed “Followers”. I’m not entirely sure of this gadget’s utility, except that it’s another conduit for adding dozens of random icons to [...]

6’4000" and Full of Muscles

December 3, 2007

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Don’t kid yourself. This is simply an illusion created through forced perspective and innovative optical imaging technology. Marty is still the tallest singular entity in the universe.

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