For those of you who don’t already know this IRL, I have now made the switch from being a science writing intern in Boston to a social media intern in Washington, DC. My new employer is Science Magazine, or more specifically, Science’s online news division called ScienceNOW. Since my job consists of monitoring Twitter, Facebook, (More…)
Posts from September 2009
Sep 30, 2009
Life Cycle of a Sexy Science News Story
Last night I was on Eurekalert, the science news wire service, and came across this press release: Fruit fly sperm makes females do housework after sex The sperm of male fruit flies are coated with a chemical ‘sex peptide’ which inhibits the female’s usual afternoon siesta and compels her into an intense period of foraging (More…)
So I’ve actually been experiencing this problem for a few days, but I haven’t mentioned it because it seemed unsolvable. Unlike the WordPress bug earlier, though, I’ve now found a fix. See reader comments for some alternate explanations of this fix. Here’s the problem. A few days ago, Google Chrome stopped working on my laptop. (More…)
Sep 28, 2009
Can’t sleep? Egocentric? Photoshop!
I couldn’t sleep last night, so I fired up GChat and Photoshop, and proceeded to compose an apotheosis to the summer-long, Google-fueled graphic design / web development crash course I’ve been giving myself. The goal? To redesign this site. This is only a little necessary–I’m accumulating some work experience IRL that could be showcased–but mostly, (More…)
Sep 25, 2009
WordPress hack: detecting login cookies when WordPress is not installed at your blog URL
This is a technical description of a programming trick with the blogging engine WordPress (which runs this blog). I know the useless blather you usually read–or, more accurately, ignore–here has nothing to do with programming, but bear with me for one post, because I think people searching on Google might find this trick useful. UPDATE (More…)