While we’re on the subject of women in science, some other news*:
Well, they’ve done it! Some of the women – Anna and Anne – who run InkyCircus (Life in the Girl Nerd World) have done what they said they’d set out to do a while back – they’ve started a science magazine. Congratulations Anna and Anne!
It is called Inkling (…on the Hunch that Science Rocks), and here’s the banner (I hope they don’t mind me linking it for advertising purposes):
(As far as I can tell it is entirely online, and has no print counterpart. I could be wrong. (Insert ironic jokes riffing on their use of “Ink” here and elsewhere.) There’s nothing wrong with not having a print counterpart, of course, I’m just wondering out loud if they intend to have one in the future.)
I have not had a good look yet, so I won’t do a wild excited rant like I did for the newly relaunched SEED a year or more ago (see here and here), but I expect that it is good and fun, given what I’ve seen on the InkyCircus blog whenever I’ve dropped in. I’m all for more science-as-popular-culture, for all the better for our society, so I’m welcoming this effort with open arms.
Spread the word…. and enjoy!
-cvj
(*Thanks Donna!)
It’s kind of choppy in my view as well. I actually like Serif Photoplus. It’s a great free alternative to Photoshop.
Thanks…. but I don’t see that problem myself. I’ll insert your image though.
-cvj
Suggestion : resize the banner yourself in the Gimp or Photoshop or some such, with anti-aliasing. Letting browsers resize it isn’t a good idea, because some browers do a crappy job. I think that Firefox doesn’t do any sort of averaging, it just picks the closest pixel to whatever fractional pixel the rescaling transformation points at.
I saw the image first and saw the word
SCIFNFROCKS
because the think bottom lines on the E’s got lost. (Plus, the whole thing looked jaggy.) Because my eye jumped to the image first, I spent some time trying to figure that out before reading the post and realizing what the word was supposed to read.
Here’s a Gimp-resized version that fits in your blog width:
http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop/temp/inkling.png
(I also change the transparent backgroudn to a white background, since that’s what your blog has.)
Insert ironic jokes riffing on their use of “Ink†here and elsewhere.
Flying Squid Monster defensive protection device??? Print counterpart requires printer ink??? The actual notions not quite manifested as though covered in red ink?? Green knickers printed with non-toxic blue soy inks???
okay.. that is all