(click to enlarge) The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is one of the fundamental plots in astronomy. I remember it being one of the very first “sciencey” things I learnt about astronomy. It’s a very elegant plot, as it relates two very basic quantities about stars, their temperature and their brightness, and presents a visually memorable picture.
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Plotting Astronomers
We have a few changes happening at All Freelance Writing, and I wanted to make you aware of them. Here’s the rundown: Matt Willard was doing a trends-focused humor series here
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Some Blog Schedule Changes You Should Know About
This Friday my guest will be Kathy Goughenour, who left a soul-sucking corporate job to run a successful business from her cabin in the woods! Kathy is an experienced, savvy marketer. From corporate marketing to direct sales to virtual assistant to internet marketer, she’s been there and done that professionally and personally. After taking the leap of
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Friday’s guest is Virtual Assistant expert Kathy Goughenour
In psychology, the term ” identified patient ” refers to a family member — often a child or a teenager — who gets scapegoated for behavior that is actually just a predictable response to dealing with an unhealthy family. Tony Hayward is BP’s identified patient.
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Tony Hayward Is a Scapegoat
Using my Tattered Rose Tutoria l, create 3 large flowers. Add chunky vintage style gems to the center. Sew or fabric glue to a scarf
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Make This: Hot Glue and Tattered Rose Scarf & PIn
Ideas are the bread and butter of the marketing business, if you will ignore the cliché. Every commercial, every direct mail letter, every single email, almost every word of any marketing piece came from an idea. Ideas are important.
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What is Marketing but Selling Ideas
John Mattick, University of Queensland, is one of the leading proponents of the idea that much — perhaps most — of the human genome is functional. He has been making claims along these lines for at least 15 years, but seems to always present it as a new idea. Readers of this blog may also remember the Dog’s Ass Plot included in one of his publications
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Mattick on transposable element function.
The Eyjafjallajökull eruption as seen by NASA’s Terra satellite In theory, geoengineering seems like the ideal remedy for our climate ills. Some white reflective roofs here, a little ocean fertilization there, a few simulated volcanic eruptions, and voilà! you have a potential fix for one of the world’s most intractable problems. But there’s good reason to believe that many of these proposed schemes would prove much costlier to the planet over both the short- and long-term than more mainstre…
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The Best Flavor of Geoengineering Stills Leaves a Bad Taste | Science Not Fiction
The concept of “primitive” is one that is very often misunderstood. Properly defined, “primitive” means “more like a particular ancestor”, refers only to individual characteristics (not whole species or lineages), and is contrasted with “derived” (not “advanced” or “more evolved”).
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Platypus and the problem with primitive.
Comic-Con gathered together the world’s top zombie experts not named “George Romero” to talk zombies. Unsurprisingly, they see our favorite brain eating shamblers in radically different ways. I cobbled together their comments from throughout the panel to paint a picture for how each writer imagines zombies.
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Comic-Con: Zombies in the Eye of the Beholder | Science Not Fiction
Ray Bradbury is the last living of the great early titans of science fiction, now that Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke have passed. He said he’s attended every Comic-Con since the first one, when he went to the El Cortez Hotel and spoke to a few of the 300 attendees that year.
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Comic-Con: Ray Bradbury and ‘90 God-damned Incredible Years’ | Science Not Fiction
Spring boarding from Amos’ paper on Thursday’s Discover panel, I want to delve into some unexplored tension. The panel focused on how science could make storytelling better, and it included a mix of scientists and TV writers
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Comic-Con Gauntlet Thrown: Fringe Producer Says Scientific Fact Must Yield to Story | Science Not Fiction
Carla Speed McNeil writes the Finder graphic novels, a work that in many ways blends science fiction and fantasy. With a hybrid work, she’s had to confront some of the definitional questions of the genres: • Super hero comics are not SciFi. They’re stories of emotion and character embroidered with these scientific ideas
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Comic-Con: Carl Speed McNeil on the difference (or lack thereof) between fantasy and SciFi | Science Not Fiction
Coat a piece of lace with Mod Podge. Position the lace over the top of a locket. (the lace should be slightly larger than the locket) Once dry, trim the edges of the lace to match the edges of the locket
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Make This: Hot Glue and Mod Podge Locket
Using Hot Glue Gen Helper Tweezers, hot glue gems around the top of a pair of hairsticks! (HGGH Tools are shipping soon!) Mod Podge a piece of decorative paper to the top of a flat ring.
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Make This: Hot Glue and Hairsticks and Gem Ring
Before turning the page on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s all-too-hasty firing of Shirley Sherrod, let’s consider what leaders in the private sector can learn from the episode. Yes, Vilsack rushed to judgment. But why?
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White Executives Should Head to the ‘Hood
Using my Tattered Rose Tutorial, make 2 large roses. Add tattered sheer fabric and a gem to the center.
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Make This: Hot Glue and Tattered Rose Fedora and Glasses
One of the strengths of Affiliate Marketers is that they can move quickly. When Michael Jackson died last year, it only took a matter of hours before affiliates were targeting people searching for news on the subject. This ability to move quickly is what sets affiliates apart from big advertising agencies and old-school marketing firms. However, it can also lead to a paralyzing condition that I like to call Affiliate Hyperactive Disorder . Monkey set up offers.
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Avoid Affiliate Hyperactive Disorder
Yesterday on Twitter I noted that I finally made a decision regarding the book I’m working on — The Query-Free Freelancer — and whether I would pursue a traditional publisher or opt to self-publish the book. I’ve chosen the latter
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Why I Won’t Pursue a Publisher for The Query-Free Freelancer
Unlike video content , Google crawlers can easily discover most images that are embedded in your web pages. However, if a page on your site has multiple images, Google may have a problem identifying which among them is the most relevant image for the content of that page
