Tag Archives: facebook
find an expert!
Someone bought a facebook ad to sell experts to people like me: You know what? Thanks, random advertiser, but I can find my own experts. I wonder if there are reporters who use services like this? I find google gets … Continue reading
how to find an earthquake
Over the weekend, a friend of mine from college asked, via Facebook, how geologists know where an earthquake was. To quote: Hey Helen, would you please write a blog explaining how geologists can tell where an earthquake’s epicenter is? Are … Continue reading
science of superheroes
I started the AAAS meeting right Friday morning by going to a session on the science of superheroes. A couple of scientists were joined by two writers from the TV show Heroes and one of the screenwriters on the movie … Continue reading
word of the year
I don’t honestly know anything about the New Oxford American Dictionary or why I should care what they think – they’re not one of *my* 31 dictionaries – but I do like their word of the year, “unfriend.” As in, … Continue reading
fluevogs fluevogs everywhere
When I’m enthusiastic about something, I tend to talk about it a lot. Earlier this year I kept posting links on Facebook to shoes I wanted from this company, whose shoes are cute, comfortable, and – oh yes – wildly … Continue reading
gender
Facebook sometimes has problems with gender – if it doesn’t know which a person is, it usually throws around “they,” as in “Bruce Fields took their turn in [game]!” because, yknow, English doesn’t really have a gender-neutral pronoun. Look how … Continue reading
one milli-Helen
While putting together the materials for this website, I’ve been googling myself a lot. Searching for my name and a keyword turns out to be the easiest way to find stuff I’ve written. It also finds lots of other things, … Continue reading