Science After Sunclipse

Lois Lowry on How to End a Book

Category: Bibliophilia

I know several people, both in real life and on the Intergrid, who have suffered through National Novel Writing Month. Chronologically speaking, that month is wrapping up; the terminator of those projects is sweeping around the globe. But, when the...

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Around the Blogohedron

Category: Carnivalia

We now join our programme, already in progress: Thaddeus Nelson catches the last half of NOVA's documentary The Bible's Buried Secrets (2008), and doesn't particularly like what he sees. John Baez brings us the latest in the case of El...

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How I Feel at Least Once a Day

Category: Wobosphere Silliness

This post was set to automagically appear whilst I am away trying to catch up on the work I didn't get done before the holiday because I was sick. If SIWOTI Cat ever stops, people will start being wrong on...

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Physics Makes a Toy of the Brain

Category: Neuroscience

Can physics tell us about ourselves? To phrase the question more narrowly: can the statistical tools which physicists have developed to understand the collective motion of large agglutinations of particles help us figure out what our brains are doing? If...

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Fooberry Bread

Category: Cooking

These little "cold and flu multi-symptom relief" pills have left me far too placid to deal with the Internet. I updated a recent post with an addendum, but that seems to be about all I can accomplish today. Oh, well....

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"I Find It Kinda Funny / I Find It Kinda Sad..."

Category: Wobosphere Silliness

When it comes to politics, I'm still very much in the "I have to laugh or else I'll cry" mode. It is in that spirit that I present the following, which is dedicated to everyone out there who saw a...

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Baby's First Light Cone

My mother was looking through the photo albums in the closet, and she found this, which apparently I drew in kindergarten: This must have been after I watched Timothy Ferris's The Creation of the Universe for the Nth time. Looking...

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Reverse the Baryon Flux Polarity!

I've been watching my way through a heap of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes lately, and I've come to some uncomfortable realizations. In many cases, I hadn't seen these episodes since they were first aired, nigh on twenty years...

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The Enemy Cat Has Only Images and Illusions

Category: Wobosphere Silliness

Behind these, the enemy cat hides his true motives....

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Friday Video: I Should Really Just Relax

James Madison and Isaac Asimov write for Mystery Science Theater 3000: Ah, the memories. Today's clip is brought to you by my officemate, who says he remembers where he was (a) the day the Challenger exploded and (b) the day...

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