Science After Sunclipse

The Elitist Bastard Agenda: Huzzahs are in Order

Category: Carnivalia

1. Z — no, not that Z, the other one — has the eleventh Elitist Bastards Carnival up on the Interrunes. 2. Russell Blackford has officially received his second PhD. 3. Recognizing a member of the order from ages past:...

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"Great is the World and Its Creator, and Great is Man"

Category: Software

On being the pinnacle of evolution.

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Quote of the Moment

As long as HuffPo continues to host fake health writers, I will always have something to blog about. PalMD...

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Stacey on Eddy on Opening Up Education

Category: Bibliophilia

My meta-review of S. Eddy's book review in PLoS Biology leads me into familiar curmudgeon territory.

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New Anthology Inspired by The Open Laboratory

Category: Bibliophilia

The success of The Open Laboratory, the annual anthology of science blogging, has inspired another online community to stop, collaborate and anthologize. The Open Game Table (2009) does for role-playing games what OpenLab has done for science. Open Game Table...

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Currently Planning to Read On a Rainy Day: AdS/CFT Edition

Category: Statistical mechanics

A couple months ago, Harvard's Sean Hartnoll gave a series of lectures at CERN about applications of gauge/gravity duality to condensed-matter physics (1, 2, 3, 4). Now, a set of notes based on these lectures is available on the arXiv...

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Currently Reading: Neural Dynamics as Critical-Point Fluctuations

Category: arXiv

M. B. Kitzbichler et al. (2009). "Broadband Criticality of Human Brain Network Synchronization" PLoS Comput Biol 5, 3: e1000314. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000314. Self-organized criticality is an attractive model for human brain dynamics, but there has been little direct evidence for its existence...

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All That Is or Ever Was or Ever Will Be: Now Available on Hulu

Category: Video

I have in the past observed that Carl Sagan is not just an inspiration to me with regard to popularizing science, but also the source of my fashion sense. Naturally, I was pleased to discover that Cosmos (1980) is now...

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Vertices on the Blogohedron

Category: Carnivalia

This is one of those times when my daily job-type job requires me to generate pretty graphs, exposit the content of equations and generally write about science. In other words, I'm being obligated to do that which I do on...

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Today's Toy: ScribTeX

Category: Software

Just a couple days ago, I was thinking how neat it would be to have a wiki which uses TeX syntax for its markup language and had the ability to make nicely typeset output. (Instiki does the latter, thanks to...

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