Oh Look, Links

I’m saving all my brilliance for a job interview today. So here, have some slices of other people’s brilliance.

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• The San Francisco exploratorium has created a neat web app to display how we know what we know. There’s an interesting mix of direct experience and hearsay for propositions like “Humans cause global warming” and “ghosts exist” – and you can split up the data by the scientist/nonscientist status of the participants. (via: Bioephemera)
• There’ll be a workshop on communicating your science to the public held on the Sunday before the fall AGU meeting. Are any of you going?
• Short Geologist has a good post up about the social subtleties of nicknames in the workplace

Below the fold is your moment of YouTube zen.