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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: 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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Category: Popularization
Happy news: ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual conference on science and the Web, will be held on January 15-17th, 2010 in the Research Triangle Park area (the exact location to be announced). Please join us for this three-day event to explore...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:33 AM • 4 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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Today's xkcd was insufficiently nerdy for me. Yes, that's right. In order to make the comic adequately reflect what I do on a daily basis, I have at least to modify the temperature conversion chart:...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:19 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mathematics
How does one make grading papers a survivable ordeal? Why, the same way one handles a "scientific" talk by a creationist: by playing Bingo, of course. From 3σ → Left: (Click to embiggen.)...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 3:19 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mathematics
America's Finest News Source reminds me of how atypical a student I really was: In addition to its poor timing, students expressed outrage Friday over the length of the math assignment, which some estimated would take fucking forever to complete,...
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In keeping with my "too busy procrastinating to be anything other than frivolous" theme:...
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The ups and downs of trilogies.
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Mathematician Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy has been appointed to replace the retiring Richard Dawkins as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. As evidence that this was a good choice, here is Prof. du Sautoy explaining Euclid's...
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Category: Astronomy
What we need, and what we're missing.
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