Intellectual Pornography - Arousing Curiosity

Site News - Upcoming Move

Hey guys, there's going to be a lull in IP posts for about a week (but hopefully less!), as I work to move the site over to Wordpress (from Typepad). I'll try to get this done as quickly as possible, and once it's done, I'll be back with your usual dose of One O'Clock awesomeness. I'll see you all on the other side!

We're live on Facebook!

After much difficulty, I've finally gotten IP's Facebook page to correctly load the RSS feed of all of the posts, so check out IP's shiny new Facebook page, Like us, become a fan, post on our wall, suggest us to your friends, and keep thinking curious thoughts over on that big social networking thing!

Moving Today and Tomorrow

Today has been, and tomorrow will continue to be, quite busy as I move into a new place. I'll be back with the One O'Clock Daily on Wednesday. See you all then!

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Edit: Moving is taking me longer than I expected, so the One O'Clock Daily will be back on Thursday.

One O'Clock Daily - Continuing Site Updates, Part 2

Still crunching through all those links. I should be done with the last of them today.

One O'Clock Daily - Continuing Site Updates

Instead of writing a piece today, I'm plugging away at updating the Resources for Making section of the site. I have a lot of links to finish adding, so hopefully I'll get through most of them today. In the meantime, you should check out the offerings over there!

Guest Writers: Bios

Hey folks,

Craig here again.  Time for another batch of guest writers.  I'll also try and post some small tidbits during the week, time permitting.

Today, I'm writing a piece about the ever-increasing amount of data collected in the world and what this may mean for higher education, especially with Google, IBM, and the NSF providing a strong force for change.

On 10/12, we featured Helen Lee with a piece about a TED talk and capitalistic business as a form of social investment in developing counties.  It's an emerging synthesis of conservative and liberal economic thought towards foreign aid that should be very interesting.

Each day, I'll update this list to include (top is most recent) the day's guest blogger with a collection of links to each post.  Here we go:

10/16:  

Daniel Koslover is a graduate student in biophysics at Stanford. He loves science but hates the thought of doing it 24/7, so he spends his evenings and weekends reading books, studying history, hanging out friends, and trying to avoid anything that might resemble work.

10/15:  

Novella Nome graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009 with a degree in English literature and is, unsurprisingly, unemployed. She currently lives in San Francisco with no pets, no money, and only a glimmer of hope for grad school. She is, when not writing in the third person, very optimistic and upbeat.

10/14:  

Evan Murphy is a software developer and engineer and occasionally both at the same time. He studied "computer science" at Caltech and currently writes programs to keep the stock market on its toes, while hoping that selling out is a reversible operation.

10/13:  

Craig Montuori graduated from Caltech two Junes ago, and now he's made his way into politics on the East Coast.  His love of history has left him with a tendency to talk about things that happened before he was born like he was there for them, and has also led him to starting up crazy projects and revivals of past traditions on little more than a whim—though they always end up awesomely.

10/12:  

Helen graduated from Caltech with a degree in Chemical Engineering and Business & Economics Management and is currently working as a management consultant while also learning how to find and chase her passions through various (and often random) side projects, and weekend adventures.  She is easily amused, loves to try new things, and is known for attempting extreme goals 'just because - why not?'

Guest Admin:

Craig Montuori (still) graduated from Caltech two Junes ago, and now he's made his way into politics on the East Coast.  His love of history has left him with a tendency to talk about things that happened before he was born like he was there for them, and has also led him to starting up crazy projects and revivals of past traditions on little more than a whim—though they always end up awesomely.

New Twitter Feed

I'm pleased to announce that Intellectual Pornography now has its own, dedicated Twitter feed at @ip_ac.  Feel free to follow us on Twitter to stay up to date on the latest topics and discussions!

Guest Bloggers

Each day, I'll update this list to include (top is most recent) the day's guest blogger with a collection of links to each post.

5/7:
Raised in Nigeria and Pakistan, Iram Parveen Bilal is a graduate of Caltech ’04 and USC’s School of Cinematic Arts ’07. She is also a Watson Fellow ‘05. Bilal has directed short films, commercials and music videos and is working on making her directorial debut as a feature filmmaker. As a Pakistani woman, she is conscious of the rare opportunity and voice she has on the filmmaking playground today and is determined to make the best of it for peace, tolerance and understanding in today's exceedingly polarized world.

5/6:
Leighland Feinman (BS Caltech ’08 Biology, History) is a PhD student at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, training in microbiology.  He is also an aspiring science fiction writer, and examiner.com’s New York Science News Examiner.  See his examiner page at http://www.examiner.com/x-4809-NY-Science-News-Examiner

5/5:
Lynn graduated from Caltech with a BS in Biology and is now living the piled higher and deeper life where the coyotes roam while investigating the daily melodrama of yeast genetics. In her spare time she can be found learning how to be restless in suburbia without a car, writing as creatively as her sleep schedule allows, and applying the tenets of literary criticism to inane ramblings from the internet.

5/4:
Caleb Ng is a senior at the California Institute of Technology, where he studies bio stuff and did some quite cool things with the student government and faculty administration.  Following graduation, he plans on unwinding for a few weeks followed by a relocation to NYC, where he will be working for Opera Solutions, a technical consulting firm.  He also didn't write this, so factual caveats apply.  [ed-It's mostly correct]

4/30:
Beth graduated from Oregon State University in September with a B.S. in Environmental Science, and a B.A. in Spanish. She is currently a professional server breaker at a small microprocessor company, which you’ve probably never heard of. Her partner in crime is an adorable Ecuadorian mutt. She has a blog which she infrequently updates, a 1988 Volvo wagon named Sheldon, and she would secretly like to have a date with Randall Munroe.

4/29:
Sean Mattingly has a Physics BS from Caltech and is working at IPAC at Caltech looking at stars and doing image analysis until he goes to graduate school in Physics somewhere. Nowadays he is a huge nerd and does physics, looks at stars, and surfs, and prowls the internet as Hamster_style owning noobs in DotA.

4/28:
Sonia Tikoo graduated from Caltech this past June, and is now tackling graduate school in planetary science at That Other Institute of Technology (a.k.a. MIT).  When she’s not screaming at computer models or begging for moon rocks, she is usually found watching sci-fi or scouring the Internet for celebrity gossip and pictures of fluffy bunnies.

4/27:
Dick creates the future and beats back the darkness with his homebrew photon warheads. He is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and is available for consulting work and birthday parties. He cowrites a blog from time to time.

Guest Admin:
Craig Montuori graduated from Caltech last June, and now he's making his way into politics on the East Coast.  His love of history has left him with a tendency to talk about things that happened before he was born like he was there for them, and has also led him to starting up crazy projects and revivals of past traditions on little more than a whim—though they always end up awesomely.