Comments on: (De)-Lurker Week http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:13:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Michael B http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23883 Michael B Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:53:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23883 Hello! Medical student lurker here. I'm interested in just about all branches of science and love reading about the latest scuttlebutt in the parallel scientific world of physics/astronomy/mathematics. The closest I got to the physics on this blog was a brief and stormy affair with quantum mechanics in my physical chemistry class in undergrad. Phew, I'm glad that's over! Keep up the good work, educating the unwashed masses. Hello!

Medical student lurker here. I’m interested in just about all branches of science and love reading about the latest scuttlebutt in the parallel scientific world of physics/astronomy/mathematics. The closest I got to the physics on this blog was a brief and stormy affair with quantum mechanics in my physical chemistry class in undergrad. Phew, I’m glad that’s over! Keep up the good work, educating the unwashed masses.

]]> By: Star Stryder » Blog Archive » Getting your Blog On http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23961 Star Stryder » Blog Archive » Getting your Blog On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:23:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23961 [...] Getting your Blog On I found out via both The Astronomy Blog and Cosmic Variance that this is De-Lurker Week. Translation: If you're listening, you are encouraged to say "hi" and wave from the comments section. It's a slow news week. It appears everything was saved up for the AAS meeting, and now the well of discoveries runs dry. Comet McNaught is the media wonder child of the moment, but from here in the way too cold mid-West, all I can say is "I see clouds." On a separate note, I was interviewed by Aaron Price of Slackapedia Galactica, and a former colleague from Slacker Astronomy. You can find the interview here. [...] […] Getting your Blog On I found out via both The Astronomy Blog and Cosmic Variance that this is De-Lurker Week. Translation: If you’re listening, you are encouraged to say “hi” and wave from the comments section. It’s a slow news week. It appears everything was saved up for the AAS meeting, and now the well of discoveries runs dry. Comet McNaught is the media wonder child of the moment, but from here in the way too cold mid-West, all I can say is “I see clouds.” On a separate note, I was interviewed by Aaron Price of Slackapedia Galactica, and a former colleague from Slacker Astronomy. You can find the interview here. […]

]]> By: Jürgen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23962 Jürgen Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:44:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23962 Hi! I'm a Math and Physics student from central Europe (Austria). I'm just enjoying to read the great posts in this blog. thx Hi!

I’m a Math and Physics student from central Europe (Austria). I’m just enjoying to read the great posts in this blog.

thx

]]> By: VY http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23929 VY Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:01:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23929 I am probably one of the younger readers of Cosmic Variance - a high school freshman from Hong Kong. Been reading this blog since September 2006, and I have to say that I find it immensely interesting. What I don't understand is why I seem to be the only one at school who is interested in physics enough to read about it. Anyway, <em>back to lurking...</em> I am probably one of the younger readers of Cosmic Variance - a high school freshman from Hong Kong. Been reading this blog since September 2006, and I have to say that I find it immensely interesting. What I don’t understand is why I seem to be the only one at school who is interested in physics enough to read about it.

Anyway, back to lurking…

]]> By: kapakapa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23930 kapakapa Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:31:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23930 A retiree with no science background, but I really enjoy outreach lectures and popular books on astronomy/cosmology. Some topics fly over my head, but there are a good mix of topics here to entertain everyone. American scientists seem to be forced into the ID/creationist debate probably much more than they would like to engage themselves in. It is a bizarre feature of an otherwise so technologically advanced nation. I do also like political topics every once in a while. For a nation engaged in a major war longer than the WWII, producing over a million refugees and possibly 500,000 Iraqi deaths, it does seem to me the homeland is somewhat dissociated from all that. Thank you for such a fascinating site. A retiree with no science background, but I really enjoy outreach lectures and popular books on astronomy/cosmology. Some topics fly over my head, but there are a good mix of topics here to entertain everyone.

American scientists seem to be forced into the ID/creationist debate probably much more than they would like to engage themselves in. It is a bizarre feature of an otherwise so technologically advanced nation.

I do also like political topics every once in a while. For a nation engaged in a major war longer than the WWII, producing over a million refugees and possibly 500,000 Iraqi deaths, it does seem to me the homeland is somewhat dissociated from all that.

Thank you for such a fascinating site.

]]> By: Will Diamond http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23960 Will Diamond Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:13:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23960 I'm a high school senior in Chicago, IL (U of C Lab Schools) and will be heading to Yale next year, probably studying math, physics, or something related. I have been reading this site for maybe a month or so. I only really discovered how fun physics and math can be a year ago, since the math/science curriculum is really anti-intellectual throughout much of school. My physics teacher has really convinced me that math and physics are as beutiful as any of the arts, and he's guiding me in GR self study right now (starting with semi-pop treatments before I hunker down with the math). It is really heartening to see that professional physicists think about some of the same things as "regular" people. My parents are both economists, and they sort of guide me away from physics because it is so hard and so "useless." This blog is certainly increasing the probability that I end up majoring in physics. I’m a high school senior in Chicago, IL (U of C Lab Schools) and will be heading to Yale next year, probably studying math, physics, or something related. I have been reading this site for maybe a month or so. I only really discovered how fun physics and math can be a year ago, since the math/science curriculum is really anti-intellectual throughout much of school. My physics teacher has really convinced me that math and physics are as beutiful as any of the arts, and he’s guiding me in GR self study right now (starting with semi-pop treatments before I hunker down with the math).

It is really heartening to see that professional physicists think about some of the same things as “regular” people. My parents are both economists, and they sort of guide me away from physics because it is so hard and so “useless.” This blog is certainly increasing the probability that I end up majoring in physics.

]]> By: Joel Grant http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23931 Joel Grant Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:18:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23931 I am just an average middle-aged guy who is fascinated by much of what I read here. At a certain point, it might as well be written in Aztec, but otherwise I find the articles and discussions here to be a wonderful change of pace from everday life on a softare development team. Now I shall go back to my typical lurker role. I am just an average middle-aged guy who is fascinated by much of what I read here. At a certain point, it might as well be written in Aztec, but otherwise I find the articles and discussions here to be a wonderful change of pace from everday life on a softare development team.

Now I shall go back to my typical lurker role.

]]> By: ither http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23932 ither Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:00:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23932 As a dead languages Orientalist, I understand very little of what I read here, but do keep on coming back for more, if only for the intellectual engagement of the writers. As a dead languages Orientalist, I understand very little of what I read here, but do keep on coming back for more, if only for the intellectual engagement of the writers.

]]> By: KL http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23959 KL Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:04:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23959 Hi! I am a physics grad., who has started research, but it still searching for her ultimate interest.. one that'll draw me like a magnet does to iron. Shocking as it may seem, what I enjoy the most about CV are the non-scientific posts. I get enough in the name of science 24*7. What I am most ignorant about is the non-academic aspects of scientists' minds, and their experiences. That explains my "lurking" :) Some of the posts here have been pretty eye-opening, and helped me understand what I experience as I enter the scientific community myself! Thank you very much! Hi! I am a physics grad., who has started research, but it still searching for her ultimate interest.. one that’ll draw me like a magnet does to iron.
Shocking as it may seem, what I enjoy the most about CV are the non-scientific posts. I get enough in the name of science 24*7. What I am most ignorant about is the non-academic aspects of scientists’ minds, and their experiences. That explains my “lurking” :) Some of the posts here have been pretty eye-opening, and helped me understand what I experience as I enter the scientific community myself!
Thank you very much!

]]> By: JimmyJoe http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23891 JimmyJoe Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:09:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/10/de-lurker-week/#comment-23891 Hello from a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area who has physics envy: I almost earned a Physics/Astronomy degree, but CS got me out of school faster. Thanks for all the great posts, I look forward to reading more exciting news on work I missed out on. Hello from a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area who has physics envy: I almost earned a Physics/Astronomy degree, but CS got me out of school faster.

Thanks for all the great posts, I look forward to reading more exciting news on work I missed out on.

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