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I don't know where we found examples of amusing and/or horrifying mistakes before the Internet....Posted on December 19, 2008 1:50 PM • 10 Comments •
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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial. He has written a science-fiction novel.
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Bad Math:
Shorter Elsevier
The case of the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is a moderately long and troubling one; before I write anything else about it, I should try to compress what's happened so far. Yo, dudes, it's Elsevier. This journal we've got...Posted on November 21, 2008 11:49 AM • 0 Comments •
Knollity
Google Knol provides an interesting forum for the incoherent.Posted on November 4, 2008 1:09 PM • 0 Comments •
They Can DO That?!
The editors of Seed Magazine endorse Barack Obama. They give lots of high-minded reasons, but clearly, they just had their fingers in the interstellar wind. Oh, and um, guys: Today we stand at an inflection point in modern history, and...Posted on October 29, 2008 3:24 PM • 14 Comments •
The EmDrive Story, or How to Propel Pseudoscience
To a scientist, having an open mind is a virtue. However, scientists still get upset when they find a story in a "science" magazine which crowbars open the reader's mind so far that you can hear the brains sloosh out...Posted on September 25, 2008 1:44 PM • 25 Comments •
Currently Reading: arXiv Edition
One of the functions of my blag is to serve as my external memory device. See, back in 1991 the physicists started this thing called the arXiv, which is like a giant, ever-growing pile of science. It started as a...Posted on August 28, 2008 10:50 PM • 7 Comments •
