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The neurobiology of itching. Sadly, it doesn't include a cure for hives.
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Video of laser-cooled atoms in a trap with the magnetic fields not balanced. I used to spend half an hour a day tweaking the Xenon MOT using this sort of picture.
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"A new book from Stanford University Press called Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance proposes that... we need rigorous and careful thinking about the structure and function and typology of cluelessness."
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In case you're getting bored with Biblical archaeology, here are some people attempting to prove the literal truth of Greek epics.
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Posted on: June 26, 2008 5:34 AM, by Chad Orzel
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Err, moderate ick warning for the New Yorker article.
*shudders*
Posted by: Kate Nepveu | June 26, 2008 9:47 AM
Heh on the moderate ick warning...I clicked through to specifically thank Chad for that article, I found it utterly fascinating.
Also, it made me feel like a chimpanzee, from all the scratching.
Posted by: Skwid | June 26, 2008 11:54 AM
Re "cluelessness": Head Start - the depauperate confabulation of epistemology with semiotics? (or would that be proxemics?)
Posted by: Uncle Al | June 26, 2008 4:56 PM