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

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: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!