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!"

Comments

Drinking at the southpole

[yorkpaddy]

Here is an interesting story I read about drinking at the south pole. Modern Drunkard South Pole

Re:Mmm Blog Linkage

[metlin]

I think it's just a human thing for others to take notice of what you are upto. Just that Blogs provide people with the illusion that there are *actually* people who read your Blog and are interested in what you're upto.

And that feeling encourages people to write logs in situations where they otherwise wouldn't have.

Cynical Slashdotters

[kandela]

I'm sorry, but this is one of the most beautiful and personal accounts I've ever read about science. I can't believe that the people who read slashdot, who are apparently lovers of science and technology can't see this blog for what it's worth. Somebody wrote that 6000 blogs by male scientists are being ignored - well I'm a male scientist and the reason I read this blog and not others is because apart from being witty in the way us science types like, beautifully written in a literary style, it's informative and most of all it's INSPIRING. No other blog out there that I've seen gives so much of the blogger. Tania is a most inspiring person, she's a person who LOVES science and if you guys can't see past the fact that the page only loads properly in IE and read the love of science then, as far as I'm concerned, you can't call yourself nerds!

Re:Firefox unfriendly :(

[jacksonj04]

Basically, Firefox should try rendering pages in an IE 'quirks' mode if they have no doctype definitions, or certain definitions. What I see increasingly is pages proclaiming themselves (through doctype definitions) to be XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant when in reality they're still in HTML 4.0.

This causes Firefox to go "OK, we will render this page completely according to the specs" and it duly doesn't get it quite right.

IE in these situations goes "Oh, i know it *says* it's XHTML 1.0 Strict but *I* think it's really XHTML 1.0 Transitional", and renders it how the writer thinks they intended.

I prefer Firefox even if half the web looks wrong - I know my pages are standards compliant when I code them and theyy check out in the W3C validators.

Re:Why I should never go to Antartica

[cvdwl]

Been there, done that, they (emperors) didn't care much, though we weren't in the group responsible for tackling and imprisoning them. Nor do they care about 2-cycle snowmobile motors or large red Snow-Cat like vehicles. The penguin research group actually had several wander up to their enclosure, wait patiently, then walk in when someone opened the door.

Adelies were a bit more skittish, but even they would stroll up and give you a good looking over from a range of a few feet.

DISCLAIMER: No penguins were harmed in the filming of our research!