Even Witches Need Science...
Category: Riding the Waves
...or, what happens when pagans skip biology class: Happy Halloween! Comic by Shivian Montar Balaris at Oh My Gods...
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Chaotic Utopia
A tangenital mix of blogliness, studying the effects of time, change, and chaos
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A student in Colorado, looking for some sort of synthesis--the big picture, encompassing all the strangeness in the universe--but willing to settle for the philosophic or poetic lens.
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October 31, 2007
October 30, 2007
The Battle of the Skeptic and the Empath
Category: Free Will
Lately, I've been pondering our use of models to predict the future conditions of our planet. However, it is also nearly Halloween. Together, it seems like a good time to pull out this old post of mine, which asks if...
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October 29, 2007
Calculating Corpse Values
Category: Riding the Waves
Shelley tagged me for this one some time ago, but it was poorly timed. But with Halloween just around the corner, what better time could there for morbid quizzes? $3675.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is...
Posted by Karmen at 5:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2007
Spooky Saturday Fractal (LXIV)
Category: Fractals
It’s getting to be that time of year again, when I pull the severed heads and oversized rats from the crawlspace... a time to deck the halls with ultraviolet, spider webs and witches brooms. My passion for the night of...
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October 24, 2007
The Perfect Simulation: A Haunted Tale
Category: Stories
Last week, I discussed the difficulty of creating a perfect model of our environment. Once, I toyed around with the idea of a perfect simulation... wouldn’t it be indistinguishable from reality? What if we created the perfect model--and it turned...
Posted by Karmen at 5:46 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 20, 2007
Simulated Earth (Friday Fractal LXIII)
Category: Fractals
After questioning how easily we might create useful models of our environment the other day, I started to wonder if I could even mimic our planet with a fractal. I’ve played around with spherical fractals in the past, for instance,...
Posted by Karmen at 11:25 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 18, 2007
Can Science Save the Planet?
Category: Home Sweet Earth
How do we study our environment? Is it too complex a thing to quantitatively describe, and thus too complex to exhibit predictable behavior? I’ve been performing a thought experiment over the past few days, tossing around such questions. I’m...
Posted by Karmen at 12:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 14, 2007
Fridayish Lichenish Fractal
Category: Fractals
I suppose, if I wanted to make things easier, I would just start calling these the "Weekend Fractal" but it just doesn’t have the same ring. Besides, this week, Carl Zimmer beat me to the Friday Fractal, on naked skin...
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October 10, 2007
A Quiet Return
Category: Riding the Waves
I may study it, but sometimes chaos and uncertainty become too much to bear. I didn’t explain my absence in the last announcement, and this may not explain much more. Last week, my father had an operation to remove a...
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