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 activity…
Wait, what? [...]
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.
Here’s the problem. A few days ago, Google Chrome stopped working on my laptop. It had recently upgraded itself to version 3.0.195.21, and all of [...]
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, [...]
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 9/26/09: [...]
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, and [...]