Science After Sunclipse

New Words for a Classic Ghoulish Tune

Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night... so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears, and utterly destroyed the C. B. S. You...

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Costumes for Every Occasion

Category: Wobosphere Silliness

Halloween is a wonderful holiday. It's the day I look normal by comparison.

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Happenings

Category: Wobosphere Silliness

Goings-on at the nearby nodes of the blogohedron: Jonathan Shock observes some rare and stunning atmospheric optical phenomena over Portugal, then returns to Earth for a good meal. Moshe Rozali investigates how the question "How many dimensions can a particle...

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Why the Godless Love Bible Study

Category: Wobosphere Silliness

Take a crowd of Concerned Citizens, add one reasonable stand-in for a golden calf, season with irony and a pinch of weirdness, and shake well. Alternate captions can be tested here....

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They Can DO That?!

Category: Calculus

The editors of Seed Magazine endorse Barack Obama. They give lots of high-minded reasons, but clearly, they just had their fingers in the interstellar wind. Oh, and um, guys: Today we stand at an inflection point in modern history, and...

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Credulity: A Better Fuel Than Hydrinos

I'll have demonstrated an entirely new form of energy production by the end of 2000. Randell Mills, hydrino advocate, in 1999 By now, I've pretty much grown accustomed to the fact that we'll always have crackpot physics with us. Some...

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On the arXivotubes: Spatial Ecology Edition

The evolution and ecology of spatially distributed populations is a confusing field to study, since nobody seems to be fully aware of the work which other people are doing. In a way, this mirrors the systems being studied: spreading a...

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Document Typesetting Fantasy

"This is TeXnical support. How may I be of assistance?"

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Obama Takes Lead in Galactic Polls

Polls compiled by the election-statistics website Five to the Thirty-Eight reveal a development surprising to some analysts: the galaxy Messier 101 has swung overwhemingly to Obama, with only a few pockets of McCain support in the outlying regions....

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Les Hiérarchistes à la Lanterne!

Martin Rundkvist describes what happened at a recent archaeological seminar: Not least piquant was that I ended up chatting briefly with two ladies whom I have criticised sharply in various media over the Ales stenar sign-post debacle. One was very...

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