And they had to keep daily science logs that revolved around a single probing question: what was the state of the water?
Next Wave Editor Jim Austin's gives his take on the National Academies report in the Careers in Science Web log.
Next Wave's Careers in Science Web log brings you breaking news and observations related to science careers, and is updated throughout the week.
According to Kurtz, his science cops log some 1,000 public appearances a year, including speaking engagements, appearances on television and newspaper interviews.
But every couple of weeks the political science major logs onto the Silk Road, an online black market that has been described as an "amazon.com of drugs" to buy wholesale quantities of "molly" (also known as MDMA, a particularly "pure" form of ecstasy), LSD and magic mushrooms.
The Prank Institute, an online community "dedicated to the pranking sciences", has logged tens of thousands of decidedly variable quality.
Tree-Ring Science in a Log Yard?
Finally, the promise of the deriving maps of science from usage log data lies in its ability to track scientific behavior as it takes place and track contemporary trends in scientific activity.
We made all those spelling word lists, math fact sheets, reading logs, science projects, geography bees, holiday plays and class parties our BITCH.
In "What Time Is It on the Sun?" Spencer Finch takes viewers on a journey — equal parts psycho-autobiography, travel log and science experiment — to demonstrate that even with light and eyes, vision doesn't give you unmediated access to the world.
NOAAs Southeast Fishery Science Center (SEFSC) Fisheries Log Book System (FLS Commercial Pelagic Logbook Dataa.
