Birthweek's Krazy TV Roundup
Welcome to Day 5 of Birthweek 9 for Observation Deck. On this day sixty-four years ago in space history a person in the US was hit by a rock. Not just any rock, but a rock from space.
The Wikipedia page on the event states that the rock first crashed through her house’s roof and then hit a radio and then hit her. But…
I've Got a Birthweek
Eleven years ago the above video was created by Colin Sanders.
Show me your birthweek
The above video has no direct links to science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, or futurism1. It’s a video from Rugrats, an animated American television program that aired episodes from 1991 to 2004. I would generally say it is outside of Observation Deck content, but io9 wrote directly about it earlier this year2,…
Happy 9th birthday Observation Deck!
Nine years ago today the io9 staff created Observation Deck
It is not difficult to include links in Kinja
Ok. So. You’re a science writer for a website. You get assigned, or you assign yourself, to write an article about a science research paper. The research paper did not come out today, it instead went online on July 13th. That means other people have already written about it. For example, it was covered by New Scientist
Gizmodo covered some new sauropod research
Earlier this week, Gizmodo’s science writer intern was able to cover two fossil dinosaur news items in one day. That coverage was better than what some of Gizmodo’s science writers have written, but there’s the occasional area wherein some better writing or better editing could have made a stronger article. Here are…
With apologies to tardigrada.net
It was the end of February and online science writing had to tackle a story about microscopic organisms. For the Gizmodo Media Group, that meant someone at Gizmodo had to tackle the story. The usual suspect was chosen.
On elephants and mastodons
An article two weeks ago interested me and I finally had time today to dissect it a little.
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