Jim Frankenfield - Science Page

- The Science and Engineering Section of my Blog

A few science-related sites:

The Employment Situation and the State of Science

NEW ! - Editorial on Peer Review ; My Own Experience

Worst Science Jobs - Postdoc (From Popular Science)
Guide to Careers in Engineering and Computer Science

Network of Emerging Scientists
NAS Report on Reshaping Graduate Education
Comments on the NAS Report from the Young Scientists Network (YSN)

Article - "Is there a Hard Money Future After Graduate School?"
Article - "Publications, Peer Review, and the Young Scientist"

An excerpt of the Unabombers manifesto (from the YSN Digest)
The Full Text of the Unabombers manifesto

Supply and Demand

Science (and Academic) Humor

Why god will never have university tenure
A Kids-eye view of science
Scientists (and others) go elephant hunting
Reading and Writing Science Papers (a terminology guide)
New Heaviest Element Found - Administratium

Doonesbury
Dilbert

Snow and Ice - Links and Articles

This is really my own primary area of interest within science. Sometimes people have e-mailed me links to technical articles on these subjects; this page serves as a shared bookmark list for these links.

Rocket Science

Space Shuttle Blowing Up
NEW ! - Shuttle Launch as seen from the Space Station
Discover the Discovery - Assembling the Space Shuttle

Science and Engineering Related Photos (General Interest)

These are some images which have come my way at some point, usually via e-mail that was forwarded all over the place. I've saved them here because I feel they are of general interest but science related.

• The Great NorthEast Blackout (8/2003) - Satellite View
• Hurricane Isabell (9/2003) - Perimeter Viewed from a Ship
• Earths City Lights - A composite of hundreds of pictures from DMSP satellites
• Iceberg
• The sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point
  Update: This is an appealing "photo" is a graphic design - Artist Note; Hoax-Slayer
• NEW ! - Shuttle Launch as seen from the Space Station

Some Fun Stuff

• Pascals (Tartaglias) Triangle - Generate as many rows as you want

Other Physics and Engineering Resources

• NEW ! - Links to Good Sites I've Found
• Physics resources - A comprehensive directory of many Physics sites.