Popular Science Features Editor Nicole Dyer has an online alter ego: she is the SciKu master of PopSci.com
Nicole Dyer is back, masterfully merging the ever-popular "Science Confirms the Obvious" series with her favorite new artform, SciKu (an instant cult classic).
Check out her latest brainchild (after the jump), and add your own 17 syllable sciku as a comment; it will live on forever on PopSci.com.
Popular Science Features Editor Nicole Dyer has an online alter ego: she is the SciKu master of PopSci.com
Nicole Dyer is back, masterfully merging the ever-popular "Science Confirms the Obvious" series with her favorite new artform, SciKu (an instant cult classic).
Check out her latest brainchild (after the jump), and add your own 17 syllable sciku as a comment; it will live on forever on PopSci.com.
Popsci.com: THE destination for the seventeen sickest syllables on the Web
By Nicole Dyer
Posted 01.21.2009 at 5:44 pm
Brace yourself. Features Editor Nicole Dyer has hit her SciKu stride-- check out her latest piece of work and read amazing SciKu from our talented users (you might wanna sit down for this)
One Popular Science editor tries her hand at Haiku in the name of science blogging
Posted 12.18.2008 at 3:15 pm
Here at Popular Science, innovation is the name of the game. Now, our Features Editor has pushed the envelope on the blog's ubiquitous form by invoking a great form of poetry known for its compact use of language and emotive imagery. We bring you Nicole Dyer. We bring you SciKu.
A boat propelled only by the rocking sea gives renewed hope for a fuel-free shipping future
By Nicole Dyer
Posted 07.08.2008 at 4:06 pm
It was all smooth sailing for seafaring extremist Ken-ichi Horie. That wasn’t exactly what he was hoping for when he set sail for Japan from Hawaii in the world’s most sophisticated wave-powered boat, named the Suntory Mermaid II
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An audio tour of the ultra-green megacity of tomorrow
By PopSci Staff
Posted 06.30.2008 at 12:23 pm
Chuck Cage sits down with editor Nicole Dyer and writer Cliff Kuang to get the inside scoop on the future of the environment. In this episode of Cocktail Party Science, the three tear open the eco-friendly green megalopolis to learn more about the pod cars, maglevs, energy-generating sidewalks and more.
Our geek finds out the hard way that it's often easier said than done
By Nicole Dyer
Posted 03.24.2008 at 2:19 pm
Wise question. I wish I had asked it before leaving my phone and two years worth of numbers in a taxi. Fortunately, backup systems abound. If you go through cellphones like toilet paper, try the Universal Pro kit ($80; datapilot.com). It includes cables that let you transfer data to your computer from just about any phone, and it syncs with Microsoft Outlook.
A nationwide wastewater monitoring system could pinpoint dangerous levels of contaminants in real time, and help keep our drinking water safe. It could also ruin a city's reputation.
By Nicole Dyer
Posted 03.10.2008 at 4:31 pm
Just when we were coming back around to the idea of drinking good old fashioned tap water, the Associated Press today announced that it has found traces of dozens of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water of an estimated 41 million Americans.
The biggest sheet of nanotubing holds promise, but is it strong enough to one day lift a space elevator?
By Nicole Dyer
Posted 02.28.2008 at 4:52 pm
Nanocomp Technologies Inc. of Concord, New Hampshire has managed to make the largest sheet of carbon nanotubing ever, rekindling the long-standing dream of a fantastical space elevator that lifts us into orbit along an ultra-light yet ultra-strong carbon nanotube cable. Sure, at 18 square feet, the sheet is smaller than a beach blanket but it contains a billion billion nanotubes, which makes it 200 times as strong as steel and 30 times less dense.
Mix some martinis and listen in each Monday afternoon as PopSci’s editors gather for a casual (and often silly) discussion about current events in science and tech
By Megan Miller
Posted 02.25.2008 at 5:38 pm
Check out our inaugural episode of Cocktail Party Science, in which host Chuck Cage, senior editor Nicole Dyer and Web editor Megan Miller talk to Eric Hagerman, author of Your Sewer on Drugs. Youll get a behind-the-scenes account of what it was really like to dive into the manholes of San Diego in the name of science.
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