great tips for your science writing

How to write consistently boring scientific literature
Kaj Sand-Jensen

Oikos Volume 116, Issue 5,
Article first published online: 26 NOV 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15674.x

This is a good follow up to the paper written by the 8-10 year olds in Biology Letters (an open access article) on bee behaviour:
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056

These walked into the library today..

You can get all different styles here!!

need help with conversions?

check out this site:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/weirdscience/a/Funny-Unit-Conversions.htm

such as:

2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
and
1 million bicycles = 1 megacycles

lab safety videos

What not to do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr7roogzM8c&feature=related
 and along the lines of Lego can do anything:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfXGEbB4gg&feature=related
How about gangsta style?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5wyM_CRsqw&feature=related

Explaining the atom on WKRP

Here is a cool clip where Venus is explaining the structure of an atom to a reluctant teenager (yeah, he is supposed to be 16!) in terms of street gangs.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6767o_60-2_auto

Who remembers WKRP in Cincinnati!  Classic...