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Science in Antarctica
Richard writes "Just to prove that science is cool; Tania, the editor of Nerdling zine has travelled to Antarctica just to publish some interesting reading material on her blog. Apparently there to calibrate a bunch of physics equipment she appears to spend most of her time marvelling at ice bergs and penguins, abseiling around the continent, and giving us explicit details of the everyday ordinary stuff. Advanced technology in an extreme environment, fantastic stuff!"
I get it too. I don't really care anyways, if she can't have her page render on Firefox then 1) she is not a nerd (hence this is not a nerdling article) and 2) I will not read it.
I don't think "just to" means what you thinks it means.
Yep, I see the same. How hard could it be to use some real CSS and check it in something other than IE?
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
But I could imagine circumstances in antarctica in which it would be very hard.
There needs to be a new rule: Whenever linking to a story by a chick, please also include a link to a picture of her. This will save countless hours as every male slashdotter tries to search for a pic of her on their own.
I actually found it quite interesting. Having never been to Antartica, I learnt quite a few things:
* China has a base there
* Ships take 10 hours to get into "port" with much crunching of ice along the way.
* Penguins aren't even remotely afraid of people.
Your post doesn't really add anything to the discussion. If you don't have anything useful to say, read the next article!
And I suppose you're one of those nerds who wonders why there aren't any girls interested in what you're doing and wonders why nobody talks to you at parties.
If you'd read the blog without making a pre-judgement you'd see why it was getting attention when some others aren't and it's not because she's female but instead because it's beautifully written and inspiring.
In the early days of Australian exploration, the relevent European powers counted a poetic ability as one of the requirements for an explorer. Tania would have met that requirement, her blog effectively describes the beauty of the pursuit of science that we nerds know it to possess, but that we forget others do not share. What makes this blog (and Nerdling) great is that it not only makes science accessible to non-technical types it relates our love of science.
Conservation of angular momentum makes the world go round.