Return of the Nifty Links

It's been a while, hasn't it? Guess we'll have to slowly get back into the feel of things, one link at a time.

And the re-inaugural link?

http://kathack.com

Turn your browser into a game of Katamari Damacy

Antarctica

Redditors and friends in Antarctica

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/aaq12/so_my_buddy_is_in_antarctica_doing_research_and/

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aas0r/iama_antarctic_researcher_who_measures_ozone/

Shackleton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

Documentary about people in Antarctica

Iceberg!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_B-15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_World

www.galaxyzoo.org

It's a website where people can help classify the galaxies found by the Sloan Sky Survey. Crowd sourced astronomy seems like a great idea.

Cool Book on Evolutionary Optimization and Friends

Sean Luke, a CS professor at George Mason, has made available a free book on stochastic optimization algorithms called Essentials of Metaheuristics. It looks like a really good introduction to the subject, which is, of course, a damn cool subject.

Science festivals are extremely nifty

The NSF is setting aside $3 million for the creation of Science Festivals.

What if you perceived beauty on the subway?

An older Washington Post article discusses an experiment with a violinist and a subway terminal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

Extremly nifty.

History as it happens!

Amanda is published in Graybeards with an article on her Korean experience. The UAH history department has blogged about it.