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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.
November 19, 2009
Category: About this Blag
I'll be busy on through the weekend. The good news is that some of the busy-ness derives from art and mathematics and writing, although a dismaying proportion comes from less enjoyable stuff. I might be away from my computer during...
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November 18, 2009
Category: Evolution
I snared two copies of Ray "I like the feel of a good banana in my hand" Comfort's idiotically amended edition of The Origin of Species. Hearing that his minions were giving them out a day early, I swung by...
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November 17, 2009
Category: Bibliophilia
I just noticed on my blag sidebar that the ScienceBorg Collective is offering ten free copies of Jason Rosenhouse's much-lauded book, The Monty Hall Problem (2009). Ten winners will be chosen, one each day for ten days, and the urn...
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Category: Bad Math
Now, this is entertainment! Creationist pseudo-mathematician Bill Dembski, unable to respond cogently to a critique of his "work", threatens to sue the critic for copyright infringement. (I guess he was just upset that his information was conserved, ha ha.) You...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:09 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 16, 2009
Category: Statistical mechanics
The American Physical Society, in addition to pwning global warming denialists, runs a regular publication called, simply, Physics, which "spotlights" recent items of interesting research. One such item I saw today turns out to be relevant to my research interests:...
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November 7, 2009
Category: Bibliophilia
Huzzahs are in order for SciBling Jason Rosenhouse, whose entertaining and informative book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser (2009) made Amazon.com's annual list of the ten best science books. Not bad for a...
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November 4, 2009
Category: arXiv
Jean-Daniel Bancal and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, "Steady-State Dynamics of the Forest Fire Model on Complex Networks" (arXiv:0911.0569). Many sociological networks, as well as biological and technological ones, can be represented in terms of complex networks with a heterogeneous connectivity pattern. Dynamical...
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November 3, 2009
Category: Carnivalia
The most recent Carnival o' ye Elitist Bastards is now sailing the global ocean of discourse. Also, my SciBling Bora Zivkovic recently interviewed me about science and fiction. For those who missed it, the questions and responses can be read...
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Category: A funny thing happened on the way to the academy
I got forwarded this from someone who got forwarded this from someone whose sister's former roommate got it from Al Gore. Today CBSG continues with its pointers for budding scientists with the second part on serving as a peer reviewer...
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November 2, 2009
Category: Video
I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo....
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