Shannon Jiménez

Spanish to English scientific translator and high school science teacher. http://www.shannonjimenez.com
Whence and whither machine translation - http://ginstrom.com/scribbl...
I voted!
Geez, it's only 2 pm :) - Shannon Jiménez
The best thing about the election tomorrow? No more robocalls.
Pumpkins and doggie torture. - Shannon Jiménez
Nice Pumpkins!! You are such artists!! - Skye Miller
kittehs help wif science « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008...
Bejeweled Twist, Your New Digital Addiction | Game | Life from Wired.com - http://blog.wired.com/games...
"Half a billion people have spent more than 6 billion hours playing Bejeweled, and 10 percent of those have actually shelled out their own money to buy it. PopCap, which has grown from a garage outfit to a company with more than 200 employees, has ported the game to Xbox 360, Playstation 2 and every phone OS imaginable, not to mention Palm Pilot, Pocket PC and iPod. You can play it to win cash on gambling sites, there are Bejeweled-themed casino machines in Vegas, and in Australia, you can even get scratch-off lottery tickets based on it. Now, PopCap is hoping to hit the jackpot again. Today, casual gamers will get their twitchy paws on the PC version of Bejeweled Twist -- a follow-up that's been four years and a record-setting $1 million in the making. Twist stays true to the original's unique charms, but radically alters the gameplay. The object of the game is still to make rows and columns of three identical gems. But instead of swapping the positions of two side-by-side gems, you have to rotate two - Shannon Jiménez
Five Fallacies of Grief: Debunking Psychological Stages: Scientific American - http://www.sciam.com/article...
"So annealed into pop culture are the five stages of grief—introduced in the 1960s by Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross based on her studies of the emotional state of dying patients—that they are regularly referenced without explication. There appears to be no evidence, however, that most people most of the time go through most of the stages in this or any other order." - Shannon Jiménez
Designing Wildlife Corridors: Wildlife Need More Complex Travel Plans - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
Where I live meme
We live on the edge of town. The fields are where I walk the dogs. - Shannon Jiménez
it's nice to have some space. is that a farm or something? - Cee Bee
Davis is surrounded by agriculture. The field in the photo had corn until the recent harvest. We also have lots of tomatoes and sunflowers. - Shannon Jiménez
Marriage and Fundamental Physics - http://cosmicvariance.com/2008...
ThinkGeek :: Giant Plush Microbes - http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoy...
The common cold, salmonella, malaria, and more! - Shannon Jiménez
Enciclopedia del espanol en los Estados Unidos - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
Nace la 'Enciclopedia del español en los EE UU' · ELPAÍS.com - http://www.elpais.com/articul...
"Enciclopedia del español en los EE UU, editada por Santillana, nace ante esa nueva identidad cultural de nacionalidad hispano-estadounidense. Se presenta como una recopilación exhaustiva y pormenorizada impulsada por el IC, que analiza la situación actual del español a fin de comprender mejor su proyección futura. A lo largo de 80 artículos especializados, repartidos en un total de 1.000 páginas, el lector puede consultar las múltiples realidades del mosaico hispano en EE UU." - Shannon Jiménez
One-Organism Ecosystem Discovered in African Gold Mine | Wired Science from Wired.com - http://blog.wired.com/wiredsc...
"In the hot, dark water of a South African mine, scientists have found the world's loneliest species. Everywhere else biologists have studied life on our planet, they've found communities of life, but today, biologists announced they have discovered an ecosystem that contains just a single species of bacteria." - Shannon Jiménez
Medical Mystery: Only One Person Has Survived Rabies Without Vaccine--But How? - http://www.sciam.com/article...
The Cold, Hard Data of Soda Ice - http://www.wired.com/science...
"Depending on whom you ask, either ice-fiends are suckers who pay for frozen water or ice-avoiders are cheapskates with a perverse attachment to warm fountain syrup. To settle this once and for all, we went to a local cineplex and bought three Cokes with varying amounts of cubes at 4 smackaroos each. Then we broke out our thermometers and measuring cups. The cold, hard data says it all." - Shannon Jiménez
immigration: Nifty chart showing how tough it is for "unskilled" people to immigrate to the U.S. - http://community.livejournal.com/immigra...
The US immigration process explained. - Shannon Jiménez
Chris Coltrane's Blog - Everyday Science: Scans From a Science Magazine, 1919-1921. - http://chris-coltrane.livejournal.com/378327...
these are great - Cee Bee
Love it! @:-D, BTW what is that girl doing in the basket? Dig that helicopter-plane, way ahead of its time! - Jason
One Quarter of World's Mammals Face Extinction - http://www.sciam.com/article...
Director files complaint about UC Davis band - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
My goodness... while sexual harrassment claims are never a laughing matter, I would be lying if I didn't say I had quite a few big chuckles when reading this article. 1) No quotes from band members? 2) Am I the only person who felt this read like something from The Onion? 3) Make the kids pay for property damage, but... unless current members of the band want to file a claim, why doesn't the director just get outta the way? Seems like the band was doing just fine before he barged in. 4) Damn, this band makes my high school band days look like they took place in a monastery! :P - Adam Lasnik
poor guy, but come on...i can't think of a marching band that isn't rowdy and lewd and davis has a reputation. as a grad student in music, he should have known that. - Anika
Warning: If antibiotics won't work, don't take them - http://www.sciam.com/blog...
But if they do work, take all your prescription! "Failing to take the full course of an antibiotic can produce the same effect." - Anne Bouey
Tracking the lag between promise and payoff. - http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsa...
"The time interval between the first report on preparation, isolation, or synthesis (or the earliest patent) and the highly cited articles reporting successful clinical interventions -- between the report of findings with clinical potential and the determination via clinical trials that that promise is realized in a treatment -- is the "translational lag". (There is, of course, another lag that's harder to quantify this way -- that between the initial findings in the research lab and the publication of those findings.) Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al. found that the median translational lag for the highly cited articled in their study was 24 years." - Shannon Jiménez
To Mona: please send me an e-mail at shannon dot jimenez at gmail dot com. I have a top secret job offer for you and I don't have your e-mail address. kthxbai.
Or if anyone has her e-mail, could you tell me? I'm not a stalker, I swear. - Shannon Jiménez
oooooooohhhh cool!!! WTG Mona!! - Lindsay
Hey Shannon! Wow, thanks! It's [email protected]. :) - Mona Nomura
Message sent :) - Shannon Jiménez
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham - http://www.periodicvideos.com/#
118 videos, one explaining each element. - Shannon Jiménez
Happy International Translators Day!
You as a kid meme
Bret and I at the graveyard. Were we stylish, or what? - Shannon Jiménez
Bump for good times :) - Shannon Jiménez
Indian Spice In Turmeric Reduces Size Of Hemorrhagic Stroke - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
Mp3 Experiment San Francisco Details - http://improveverywhere.com/2008...
Another for Geoff's meme: Nudge Nudge - http://www.youtube.com/watch...