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An Alloy of Pleasures
Category: Popularization
I revisit The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:13 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
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August 31, 2008
When it Matters, Science != Culture?
Category: Bibliophilia
Dinosaurs, we are told, ain't art.
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Bloodsuckers of Oxford Town
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
So, everybody has been abuzz about this new Jack Chick tract, "First Bite", in which we learn that the love of Jesus gives the believer telekinetic powers over vampires. Now, personally, I was raised to believe that hokey religions and...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 3:22 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 30, 2008
Carnival of the Elitist Bastards, Act I, Scene iv
Category: Carnivalia
SCENE: The castle of Pharyngula in the city of Science Blogs. Enter KING MYERS and attendants. 1ST MESSENGER: My lord, a new cache of letters has arrived, declaiming threats against your royal person, offering up chants of prayer for your...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:44 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 29, 2008
Friday Video: The Relativity Song
Category: Cosmology
Max Tegmark sings "The Relativity Song".
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Millionth Comment Party
Category: Social Events
So, as everybody has heard by now, Scienceblogs.com is about to hit one of those arbitrary round-number milestones: sometime soon, someone will make the one millionth comment. Our generous Seed overlords [the people who still haven't gotten my RSS feed...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:29 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2008
Currently Reading: arXiv Edition
Category: arXiv
One of the functions of my blag is to serve as my external memory device. See, back in 1991 the physicists started this thing called the arXiv, which is like a giant, ever-growing pile of science. It started as a...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:50 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2008
Carnival Reminder
Category: About this Blag
The fourth Carnival of Elitist Bastards will be hosted here this Saturday, August thirtieth. Got writing which exalts the intellect, illustrates the pleasures of refined sensibility and admits no shame in the fact? Send it to elitistbastardscarnival at gmail dot...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 4:16 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ATLAS in Super Speed
Category: Video
Well, my companion in crime known as the evilutionary superscientist P-Zed has blessed my site with a traffic surge, so it looks like I'm officially in business. And while I'm futzing around trying to fix the standard problems of a...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 8:56 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Good Morning, ScienceBlogs!
Category: About this Blag
It's morning in the science blogosphere. A young book meme is opening its wings and preparing to flutter across the sky. Horrendous advertisements are making surgeons reach for sharp objects. I say we should ditch the ads and start stealing...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:36 AM • 56 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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