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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.
August 26, 2009
Category: Video
This one is for Jeffrey Shallit, currently on sabbatical in Boston: Apparently, Tom Lehrer wrote this song in 1944, when Downtown Crossing was still Washington, and this recording comes from an interview on MIT's radio station WMBR, when it was...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2009
Category: Bibliophilia
From the man who did not endorse Stuart Pivar. It seems to be characteristic of the impact of scientific discovery on the literary world and on popular culture that certain items of vocabulary, interpreted vaguely or incorrectly, are often the...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 5:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2009
Category: Video
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Category: Popularization
Happy news: ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual conference on science and the Web, will be held on January 15-17th, 2010 in the Research Triangle Park area (the exact location to be announced). Please join us for this three-day event to explore...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:33 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 4, 2009
Category: Bad Math
There I was, quietly trying to get work done, when somebody e-mails me a link to a New York Times piece, "S.E.C. to Seek Ban on Flash Orders, Schumer Says". When buy or sell orders are submitted to marketplaces like...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 5:01 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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