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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.

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Behind One Door Is an Award. . . .

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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Book News

Category: Bibliophilia

Three book-related items up today: First, a hearty congratulations to Brian Switek, whose book, now titled Written In Stone, is set to be published next fall! If the sample chapters I saw a few months back are any indication, Brian's...

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Quote of the Day

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...

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Blogging Queue Overflow: Abort, Retry, Fail?

Category: About this Blag

Wherein the author jots a few quick notes and takes a break.

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What Does It Take to Make a Science-Writing Anthology?

Category: Bibliophilia

Nowadays, "approval from a publishing company" ranks surprisingly low on the list.

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Would You Call These Colours Mauve and Green?

Category: Bibliophilia

Thomas Pynchon has a new novel, Inherent Vice, set for publication this August. In addition to leaving me with the distinct impression that the novel will involve hunting ghosts through the Florida swamps, this cover suggests somebody is still obsessing...

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HOWTO: Become Very Rich by Writing Books

Category: Software

I'm glad to see that the procedure has been spelled out. To become rich very fast by writing books, you have to take these steps. 1. Start writing novels on your computer. Write fiction novels since they take the least...

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Today in Bookwormery: Remarkable Creatures and The Monty Hall Problem

Category: Bibliophilia

Yesterday evening, I came home to find a new piece of swag waiting for me: a brown paper parcel, lined with bubble wrap and containing Sean B. Carroll's Remarkable Creatures (2009). I flipped it open immediately after extracting it from...

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Who Needs Love When There's New Scientist?

Category: Bibliophilia

Brian Switek observes that New Scientist magazine (cough, cough, cough) has reviewed The Open Laboratory 2008, the third annual science-blogging anthology. My favourite part of the review, by a certain Michael Le Page: There are many highly entertaining pieces here,...

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Mythic Conventions in the Physics Bookshelf?

Category: Bibliophilia

Robert P. Crease, chairman of Stony Brook's philosophy department, has an essay in the latest Physics World which puzzles me. He's talking about what happens when writing about physics for the public, which is a subject known to make me...

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