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Category: Books
For the bibliophile who can't bear to leave all his or her books at home: a one-of-a-kind necklace of eleven miniature leather-bound books by TheBlackSpotBooks. Via NotCot....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:52 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
An excellent post from language log: I propose a voluntary ban on the use of generic plurals to express statistical differences, especially in talking to the general public about scientific results in areas with public policy implications.In other words, when...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:47 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
"It will die, eventually, because no one will know how to do it." But for now, a few miles from here, Firefly Press' John Kristensen is keeping the tradition of letterpress alive, as seen in this beautiful video by Chuck...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ephemera
Can we trust that the "Theory of Everything" (in economics, physics, or any other field) turn out to be beautiful?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:19 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Frivolity
I've posted before that I'm a big fan of Garfield Minus Garfield, the alternate reality in which Jon Arbuckle's barely suppressed mental illness is fully revealed. Now we have Garfield: Lost In Translation, in which the dialogue is translated into...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:03 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
The demise of the university, why your Facebook photos are causing a power crisis, how anesthesia transformed medicine, are scientists "selfish" when they delay publishing new medical data in order to write a more thorough/high-profile paper?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Web 2.0, New Media, and Gadgets
And if so, will it make us even stupider? Only one more week until we find out! This could be the datahead's ideal engine: It'll tell you the family, genus, species, and caloric value of an apple, and it'll forecast...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
I know I've typed out some howlers in my day, so I say this with all due humility. But this post over at iO9 had me rolling on the floor last night: Paul Murtaugh, a statistician at Corvallis' Oregon State...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:17 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Department of the Drama
In case you missed it, my Sciblings are abuzz about journalists' dismissal of Jill Biden's education. From the LA Times: Amy Sullivan, a religion writer for Time magazine, said she smiled when she heard the vice president's wife announced as...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:42 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Words
Speaking of the unpredictable evolution of language, the NYT shares this map of many formerly innocuous placenames in Britain which, over time, have become inadvertently profane. Apparently there are so many embarrassing locale that they've become the topic of...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:30 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
