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more about #research CSX321: IMO, this is a problem with much of science today. For a variety of reasons, we only see what we are looking for. more » FrankN.Stein: Wow... a dead fish reacting to emotional pictures - I guess we found the Target audience for Twilight. more » phoghat: BS, BS, BS! more » bookwench: IT Chick here with a newsflash. What they really need to ensure people take down off their office walls are explicit scenes of gummi bear torture. I m... more » mazimazo: @Robobagins : here it is more » bonniegrrl: All the IT guys I know rock. They're the only ones I can have a serious discussion about Doctor Who with without it turning into a "Which Doctor is th... more » Sunshineyness: Also, can I just say I CAN NOT WAIT for the majority of the baby boomers to retire? I feel like it's that generation that is keeping these obnoxious w... more » Sunshineyness: Ugh. Or it could be because IT guys are notorious for talking down to women. Call me kooky, but it could be, you know, their personality faults not th... more » Mary Ratliff: You know what bothers me about this? If I walked into a workplace and saw Chewbacca or Star Trek posters or things that I knew came from Think Geek I... more » AdrianTheRed: I'm a network operator for a rather large consumer electronics retailer. There's probably 150-200 employees in the IT group as a whole. Including my... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Am I some sort of half-breed freak, in that I took courses in both English and Computer Science in school? One way or another, I still consider mysel... more » Jeriba: Do you think the results would have been different if the geeky decor had included giant posters of David Tennant and Summer Glau? more » TemporalOutLaw: How do coke cans make an atmosphere less hospitable and pleasant? I hope this wasn't a real study because everything about is biased and misrepresen... more » einsteinsquandry: Roy: Women, they're all shoe mad. Moss: That's a bit sexist isn't it? Roy: How many women do you know that aren't shoe mad? Moss: Well none, but I onl... more » CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): Not completely off-topic, but that pic reminded me of Bosom Buddies... "I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life." more » Dirk Anger: "Do you really want to attract English majors to computer science?" You want to attract everybody to computer science, because when they get to work ... more » kiarna001: I call bullshit. In my software company's dev office I am the only female and the only one with a desk covered in geeky toys. Currently there is a Cyl... more » gd01skorpius: Fuck 'em. SFWork is SFWomen. If somebody, be they a man or woman, wants me to take down my SFW decore, they can go to hell. more » Vexxarr: Chewbacca doesn't scare off women, it scares off the straights (non geeks) which is exactly what the Chewbacca is doing there to begin with. If a girl... more » Shadowcat24: My husband and I both work in IT. My husband's desk has a model of a TARDIS and a Dalek figure from Dr. Who. He also had s model of the Enterprise fro... more » -
#science
fMRI Experiments Are Fishy At Best
Recent experiments at Dartmouth using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on a dead fish may cast a lot of doubt on conclusions drawn from using fMRI as a tool for research. -
#dubiousresearch
Does Science Fiction Make Your Workplace A Hostile Environment For Women?
Computer geeks: Tear down those science-fiction posters! Get rid of those Tron lightcycle toys! Your science-fiction bric-a-brac is scaring women away from IT, says a new study. More » -
#zombies
Why Should We Study Zombie Attacks?
Last month, a group of mathematicians grabbed headlines with their mathematical model of the zombie apocalypse. But as one science journalist notes, such studies are more than amusing academic anecdotes; they can actually serve a very legitimate social interest. More » -
#madscience
Golden Breathalyzer Could Diagnose Lung Cancer
Lung cancer diagnosis can be an invasive process, involving CT scans and tissue biopsies. But a new nanotechnological process for cancer detection could make diagnosis lung cancer as simple as breathing into a tube. More » -
#chartporn
How Does Shark-Jumping Really Affect Audience Numbers?
When fans say a TV series has jumped the shark, do the masses really notice? We did some research on Battlestar Galactica's audience numbers to see if bad moments in the show drove audiences away.
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#books
Zeppelins On Mars, Water Purification On Earth: Research Secrets Of Two SF Writers
The most irksome aspect of writing a science fiction story is often the research. Sometimes you have the perfect story, but it's based on junk science. Here's how Caitlin Kiernan and Nicola Griffith handled it. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Teenage Girls Are Writing Harder Science Fiction Than You Are
Megan at Teen Ink magazine is teaching teenagers how to research real science before writing science fiction stories. I wonder how many real science fiction authors actually follow her methods? -
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#research
Dreams of Doctor Who and Star Trek Fans vs. the Realities of Their Lives
A few weeks ago, we asked you to take a survey about whether Star Trek or Doctor Who had molded your brain. We wanted to know whether there was any connection between being a fan of one of these shows and what your career aspirations might be - as well as what career you wind up having. Over 1600 people responded, and it turns out Doctor Who and Star Trek fans aren't very differently-brained. Both shows inspire fans to have similar dream jobs, though not all of them manage to get those jobs when they grow up. We also learned what fans want most from the shows. Find out more, and check out our amazing data charts, below. More » -
#conceptart
An Ice-Bound Research Station on Another Planet
The multi-spiked item in the artwork above may be some sort of high-tech craft touching down for directions, or it could be a very advanced research station set up over a crevasse in Antarctica. Probably outfitted with scads of sensors, heated seats, and a fancy beverage dispenser as well. More »
