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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.
May 29, 2009
Category: Evolution
Jen finds a story about a Swiss research group which made a little ecology of robots with neural-network brains and let their wiring be crafted by natural selection. The most entertaining line of the pop-science writeup: At intervals, the robots...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 5:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
It's such a simple idea: what if a singer actually sang about what was happening in the music video? What if, indeed:...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 5:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Fiction
Dear Internet, Yes, I know. This week you've Pharyngulated me and Redditted me and Language Logged me. You clearly expect me to entertain you, to provide amusing diversions from the banality of mass media, the futility of love and the...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 8:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2009
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
The vertical axis, if you were curious, is in furlongs per femtofortnight. Original via P-Zed. Update (28 May): A larger and cleaner version of this image is available here....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 6:44 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2009
Category: Optics
"If 7% of men in the US can't distinguish red from green, there is a good chance a few people are seeing a well-attended talk different from everyone else."
Posted by Blake Stacey at 6:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
My colleague in the next office discovered something while playing doing some item of serious scientific research which required using Google's "Wonder Wheel" feature. Scientists are easily amused, sometimes....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
First, he came for the linguists. The sure-to-be-a-hit movie Angels and Demons just recently opened in Geneva, and a flock of physicists descended upon it. (I feel like we need a better collective noun for physicists, the way a group...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:14 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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