Carnivalia:
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...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
The thirteenth instalment of The Giant's Shoulders, the blogohedronic celebration of classic science, is available at Dr. SkySkull's place. In an odd bit of synchronicity, the day I posted a brief note on Pynchon, Dr. SkySkull chose for his theme...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:52 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
I was remiss this month and didn't have anything of substance ready for the Carnival of the Elitist Bastards, partly because I've been busy in the shadows preparing a few items of Elitist Bastardry to last the ages. The current,...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:58 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
A paper on which I had done some preliminary data analysis just recently came back from peer review (at a fairly well-known journal which shall not here be named). A colleague is wrapping up his affairs to leave Boston for...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 6:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
1. Z — no, not that Z, the other one — has the eleventh Elitist Bastards Carnival up on the Interrunes. 2. Russell Blackford has officially received his second PhD. 3. Recognizing a member of the order from ages past:...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
This is one of those times when my daily job-type job requires me to generate pretty graphs, exposit the content of equations and generally write about science. In other words, I'm being obligated to do that which I do on...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
What better way to start the work-week than with a hefty dose of Elitist Bastardry? As someone who was there for the first, in that long-ago month of May, I feel somewhat proud that we've managed ten of these....
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:14 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
It's nice to look back and remember we've had reasons to be happy. Dicyemid mesozoa Reproductive history writ in the genome Four bad arguments against evolution Basics: How can chromosome numbers change? Still just a lizard Who needs a vat...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
It's a grey, gritty, frozen day. This morning, my bus was twenty minutes late, and when it finally got me to where I needed to go, I stepped off and sank into a snowdrift. Marchuary is off to a wonderful...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:52 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivalia
So, I got a check in the mail from ScienceBlogs, and another for my modest book sales (and for a wonder, my hyper-British Firefox installation is not insisting that I write about "cheques in the post"). I decided to spend...
Read on »
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:29 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks