And that's all she wrote folks.  I've moved Distributed Ecology to GitHub, you can find all my new posts here: http://emhart.github.com/  I've imported all the old posts to the new blog, but much of the formatting is lost so I'll leave these here as an archive.  But be sure to update RSS readers, etc. I'm excited to start using Jekyll as a new blogging...

So last week I wrote up a set of functions to visualize the spread of data on twitter called "impacTwit".   This has proven to be an interesting side project and so when I saw this paper by UBC's own Rosie Redfield called "“Why Do We Have to Learn This Stuff?”—A New Genetics for 21st Century Students" come across my feed a few times I decided to run...

There's a great Tom Waits song from the album "Mule Variations" called "Big in Japan". The beauty of saying you're big in Japan is that no one can ever really verify the statement (or at least that was more true in 1999). You might assert "my work is big on twitter", and hey, how would I know? I think we're all agreed now that if you're a scientist...

Remember 1992? I had just turned 13 and was still a year away from highschool when my true descent into nerdom and the internet would begin. Back then it was with a local BBS (Bulletin Board System) run by a guy in a trailer park named Charlie and a 1200 baud modem on an old Compaq 386. But there were some intrepid ecologists who were already forging...

So I came across this post by Cath Ennis (@enniscath) about Einstein's riddle. I had never heard of the riddle, but the apocryphal story that goes with it is that only 2% of people in the world could solve it. Well, never wanting to miss out on a chance to prove that I'm special, I sat down and decided I should solve it. Cath did it in 18 minutes....

Old timey dog treadmillBeing both a late riser and on the west coast means that I get most of my morning news streaming from an NPR station in Hawaii to catch Morning Edition. During my ritual 10 am coffee and twitter reading I came across mentions of a Morning Edition story on a paper that recently came out in the Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB)...