I recently gave guest lectures in Jon Stone’s “Life in the Universe” course (2LU3) and in Paul Higgs’ “Genomes and Evolution” course (4Y03) at McMaster. For “Life in the Universe” I gave a general overview of the prospects for finding life on Earth and elsewhere in the universe. For “Genomes and Evolution” I talked about […]

I just installed Do Not Track Plus and I recommend it to everybody, immediately. With it, I learned that my own website was inadvertently invoking 3rd party tracking companies (Quantcast) via the Official WordPress Stats plugin. Yuck! I’ve now disabled that “functionality” with the DoNotTrack plugin, but I’m still pretty upset that it was in […]

I’ve made a short video teaser for my upcoming talk at the IPY2012 conference in Montreal. Check it out! [It took me all day to find the right combination of tools to produce this simple video in Linux! First I tried making it as a presentation in OpenOffice Impress, exporting that as a swf video […]