People who are intrigued with physics are somewhat intrigued with computer science, too, but they are crazy about fashion. Who knew? Hilary Mason did. At Scientific American’s request, the chief scientist at bitly (http://www.bitly.com/), which shortens URLs for Web users, examined 600 science Web page addresses sent to the company’s servers on August 23 and 24. Then she tracked 6,000 pages people visited next and mapped the connections.It is an interesting chart, but, as one of the comments noted, that seems like a pretty small sample size. Also, the content of the sites may be fairly varied, as I enjoy the links to science stories at a number of economic or political sites. I go to those sites because I know they have such interesting links. I'm also not sure what category this blog would fall under.
The results revealed which subjects were strongly and weakly associated. Chemistry was linked to almost no other science. Biology was linked to almost all of them. Health was tied more to business than to food. But why did fashion connect strongly to physics? And why was astronomy linked to genetics?
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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You are one of those farmers who understands that agriculture is an applied science. Makes sense to me.
ReplyDeleteAgriculture does involve chemistry, biology, genetics, mechanics, accounting, marketing, management, hydraulics, hydrology and some other stuff. It's fun. Things have changed a lot from the days of brutal work staring at the back end of horses.
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