Wednesday, December 19, 2007

So how's your chirstmas, scientist?


Scientists are increasingly paying special attention to themselves.

This article, published on Nature, is a funny stuff dealing with serious issue among scientists in western world. The authors observed that more and more papers were
submitted on christmas eve (horrible~) and concluded that the scientists community are "collectively falling victim for publish-or-perish institutional cultural".

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Top of atmosphere

This is one of my favorite photo about nature, Top of Atmosphere, from NASA. Every time I see it, I spend several minutes merely staring at it.


Nature on earth has endless details and textures, however, it is generated from such simple universe.
Enchanting deep-blue universe.

See original image at NASA:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17542