Ghoulish Treats for Halloween
Category: Riding the Waves
Today is a day for mischief and merriment. So, here are a few Halloween goodies to get you in the spirit of things!
Posted by Karmen at 1:07 PM • 2 Comments •
A tangenital mix of blogliness, studying the effects of time, change, and chaos
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.
Most of my favorite blogs can be found here somewhere on ScienceBlogs. Here are a few of the other gems out there:
October 31, 2008
Category: Riding the Waves
Today is a day for mischief and merriment. So, here are a few Halloween goodies to get you in the spirit of things!
Posted by Karmen at 1:07 PM • 2 Comments •
October 18, 2008
Category: Riding the Waves
Better late than never, I guess. We shot this video a few weeks ago at our local ScienceBlogs bash. We had martinis and hors d'oeuvres, played with balloons, and had some interesting conversations on science. Some of them were deep...
Posted by Karmen at 7:49 PM • 3 Comments •
October 15, 2008
Category: Past, Present, and Future
Take note of the bison in the painting above, fleeing from America's angel of death, a now-fallen angel named Manifest Destiny. Take note of the bison, fleeing alongside horseback-riding natives and dwindling wildlife.
Posted by Karmen at 10:44 PM • 5 Comments •
October 11, 2008
Category: Fractals
Barbed wire stretched across the prairie, the slaughter of animals (and people)... the founding of the old wild west wasn’t so beautiful. Despite that, of the classes I’m taking this fall, titled "Don’t Fence Me In", has gotten me to...
Posted by Karmen at 8:08 PM • 0 Comments •
October 8, 2008
Category: Their Odd Creations
This poem seemed really fitting with the last post, yet I couldn’t fit it in anywhere. So here it is, all by itself, with some strange guy reciting it next to an egg cart: Buffalo Bill’s defunct who used to...
Posted by Karmen at 8:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Past, Present, and Future
Some folks say that bison belong here, not the ’burbs. The great herds once covered the plains, shaping the prairie in their nomadic graze. They were a keystone species, holding the ecology of the plains in a state of equilibrium....
Posted by Karmen at 7:53 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: The Arrow of Time
Time passes and the universe expands... but not so much locally. Here, something else happens altogether. Time passes, the amount of space stays the same, but the amount of information contained within grows increasingly dense. We may be products of...
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October 4, 2008
Category: The Edge of Chaos
The ScienceBlogs party here this past Sunday was a blast. We had about half a dozen people stop by, altogether. We ate and drank, talked science and politics, and did silly things for the camera. On the latter note, I...
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