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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.

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links for 2008-10-06

Category: Links Dump
Posted on: October 6, 2008 5:00 AM, by Chad Orzel

  • The politics of girliness - Ultrabrown
    "Last night, Palin winked at the camera, scrunched up her nose and added a smiley timbre before thrusting any rhetorical daggers. In these moments she resembled an anime character. Kawaii ne!"
    (tags: US politics stupid gender society blogs)
  • slacktivist: Connections
    "[W]hen I say that these baseless and illegitimate attacks "don't prove anything," that's not quite accurate. They don't prove anything about the person being attacked, but they do prove quite a bit about the people making the attacks. They prove the attackers to be capable of the level of dishonesty and the level of sheer silliness that ought to disqualify one from public office."
    (tags: politics US society blogs religion)
  • The Common Review: Bookends
    An entertaining account of when the "Mindset List" made the Today show
    (tags: academia education society culture television)
  • WETI Institute
    "The mission of the WETI Institute is to understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of intelligent life in the universe. The WETI Institute has chosen an entirely novel approach to achieve that goal. Instead of actively searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the idea is to simply WAIT - until the others find us."
    (tags: space astronomy science silly)

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