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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.
April 27, 2009
Category: About this Blag
1. Either I gave myself psychosomatic pain in my right leg from watching too many episodes of House, or I banged my foot while assaulting the punching bag recently installed in my home. I mentioned the pain to a housemate,...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:31 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2009
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
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Posted by Blake Stacey at 3:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2009
Category: Astronomy
Two questions come up every time the discovery of an extrasolar planet hits the headlines: "Is there life on it?" and "How long would it take to get there?" To the first, we respond, "Dunno", and to the second, "That depends upon how fast you can go."
Posted by Blake Stacey at 8:07 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2009
Category: About this Blag
Where by "vacation" I mean "working on a task which is not blogging"....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2009
Category: Electromagnetism
It makes you behave like the village clergyman in an early English physics textbook. It is interesting to note that Earnshaw himself was concerned with quite a different problem: the nature of the "aether", which we have talked about quite...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 8:52 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2009
Category: Cellular automata
The following is an edited repost of an item I originally wrote last year. Sometimes, my brain needs to take a break from work, from arguing on the Internet and all the rest. On these occasions, I like to take...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:38 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2009
Category: Evolution
Renowned palaeontologist and author Neil Shubin will be speaking at the Harvard Museum of Natural History this Thursday evening. His talk is entitled "Finding Your Inner Fish". To celebrate the opening of EVOLUTION, the museum's new permanent exhibition, Shubin will...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:04 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2009
Category: Physics
How do the detectors used in high-energy particle physics work? Anadi Canepa gives an introduction at Quantum Diaries: Both ATLAS and CMS are so called "multi-purpose" detectors as measurements taken are suitable for a broad physics programme (some of which...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
To my knowledge, nothing I've written has ever been picked up by Fark. (This old piece got some Reddit love when it was topical, and I get a burst of traffic from StumbleUpon now and again, and there was some...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:54 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2009
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
Hmmm. Firebenders draw power from Sozin's Comet, comets are studied by astronomers, portrayals of astronomy in TV shows are critiqued by. . . . (Original picture here.)...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:49 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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