Friday, April 19, 2013

edit: Methods update (aka, In Preventing TL;DR)


METHODS

I needed to change some things, because I had an idea for making this so much cooler.  A lot of this idea is still evolving, but the basic plan is to have a number of events on this blog:
  1. Topic of the Month - in preventing tl;dr.  Each month or so, I will introduce a topic and try to start a dialogue with you about it.  For instance, my first one will be about feet!  How do we get them? Where did they come from? How do we make one?  I will give some thoughts for discussion, you will respond, and then I will respond in kind and further the topic in the next post.  That way, you don't have to go through an entire boring article before getting to ask your questions, and I don't have to textwall you! We both win :D
  2. Fuzzy SCIENCE news!  Every now and then, I will post an article that has been published in the past few days and give a short spiel on the lab(s) that published it, how they did it, what they did, and finally just offer up some thoughts on how friggin' awesome the results could be for us furries and for the world at large! And then, you will comment, and ask questions, and I and others more knowledgeable than I will answer them, and we will be engaged and austere and wait no not that at all we're all about tails and wings and furry faces, right? Let's figure out how to make some and get 'em!
  3. Idea sandbox.  Once a month, I want to toss up someone's - yours, your parents', your dogs' - idea for some shoot-for-the-stars invention/achievement or another.  For me, it would be making dragons. I will put that out here on the blog for you to see and admire, so you can know what your fellow fuzzies are thinking and dreaming.  For the month following, I'll read the comments, spam you all with my thoughts, and over the course of it, put everything you've said into the closest and most reasonable idea I can, and publish it as something plausible, sort of a la this special Animal Planet did in 2004 (except in text and/or drawn format - speaking of which, any available artists who want to ply their trade with a mad scientist? *eyebrow bobbing everywhere* ).
  4. Twitterrrrrrrrrr please follow me @SiberTerrian it makes me feel important.  Also! I will Tweet about other places that make SCIENCE easy, or that have cool ideas, or I'll just link to articles in Nature that I think are particularly awesome, in addition to providing updates about the site and postings here.
  5. Ideas? Tell me your ideas. I am just one weasel, and while my brain is undoubtedly the most attractive internal organ ever devised, it needs input so I can make this something fuzzy people want to see!

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