For the U.S. college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor’s degree long after graduation day, here’s some consolation: At least it didn’t take you six or eight years. College is expensive, yet unpredictably so. Some students pay little for degrees from elite private institutions, after tuition discounts and financial aid. Many of their peers, however, will pay far more than they expected for lower-cost universities. A big reason for this is the increasing […]

Justin E. H. Smith in his blog: A student in rural Iceland, of sheep-farming stock, had her guard down, or didn't yet have a guard. She didn't know how to talk to foreigners, or perhaps felt there was something she...

The Canadian twitter world has been split in the last couple of days. You have of course the Duffy-Brazeau-Harb-Wallen-Wright-Perrin saga filling the trend boxes. But then, you have the story of the Tories’ problem with science, be it defunding, muzzling, … Continue reading →

Jalees Rehman in The Guardian: The bulk of contemporary science journalism falls under the category of "infotainment". This expression describes science writing that informs a non-specialist target audience about new scientific discoveries in an entertaining fashion. The "informing" typically consists...

Yesterday, I told you about the 1st ever crowd sourced satellite, the Skycube.  I turns out however, that Sunday NASA also launched three low-cost smartphone satellites aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket. The PhoneSats are transmitting data packets on the amateur radio spectrum.  You can see what data is being transmitted … Continue reading »