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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.
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: 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...
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,...
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...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 6:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
To my knowledge, nothing I've written has ever been picked up by Fark. (This old piece got some Reddit love when it was topical, and I get a burst of traffic from StumbleUpon now and again, and there was some...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:54 AM • 7 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:...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:16 AM • 0 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....
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...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Software
I often joke that the technology for typesetting equations on the Web is of all-consuming interest to about twelve people. This is, of course, the kind of joke I make out of bitterness: it's a joyous day indeed when I...
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Category: Carnivalia
Does it ever appear that the voices in the public sphere which most consistently argue for "elitism" — that is, in favour of hard-earned knowledge and the value of expertise — belong to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, TV comedians,...
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