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There's been a lot said and written about Cyclone Nargis recently, and reading the coverage by Chris Mooney and others makes me feel a little like a Bad Person for not saying anything myself. But, really, what is there to...
Posted on May 12, 2008 7:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There has been another shooting on a college campus, with a gunman opening fire on a geology class at Northern Illinois, before killing himself. Early reports suggest that the safety measures put into place after the Virginia Tech tragedy all...
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Posted on February 15, 2008 7:17 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A big earthquake hit the Caribbean, and I know this because of a science fiction convention.
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Posted on November 30, 2007 8:48 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The weekend interrupted the parade of Nobel prizes, setting apart The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, more commonly called the Nobel in Economics (even though it's a late addition). This goes to three...
Posted on October 15, 2007 7:16 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
(WASHINGTON, DC) On the heels of reports from Oslo that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former US Vice President Al Gore, a White House spokesman issued a statement...
Posted on October 12, 2007 8:34 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced this morning, and will be split between an international panel and everybody's favorite PowerPoint presenter: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two...
Posted on October 12, 2007 6:40 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the "Social Networks Brighten My Morning" file, I am inordinately amused to be getting status updates from a Nobel laureate on Facebook. Speaking of Nobel laureates, the latest chunk of dynamite money was awarded this morning to novelist Doris...
Posted on October 11, 2007 8:45 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Two items from the sports pages this morning: 1) Not really a sports story, but I saw it first on ESPN: two Duke lacrosse players have been indicted. It really doesn't deserve a whole "CSI: Durham" post, because it's a...
Posted on April 18, 2006 6:55 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Inside Higher Ed, a story with the nearly unbeatable headline: Feds Pounce on Student Dresses As a Ninja. Why was a student running around the Georgia campus dressed as a ninja? Ransom told The Red & Black student newspaper...
Posted on April 13, 2006 7:09 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Having previously mentioned the Duke lacrosse mess, I feel obliged to at least note the latest events: DNA tests failed to link any of the players to the crime, but the DA says the alleged victim has identified one of...
Posted on April 12, 2006 7:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As anybody who has read my comments on basketball knows, I have an intense dislike of the Duke men's basketball team, mostly due to their fans, who combine the arrogance typical of fans of a dominant program with a sort...
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Posted on April 6, 2006 8:00 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
