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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: Physics
The story so far: New Scientist magazine publishes an issue with a heartbreakingly sensationalist cover, and biology experts across the Blogohedron get up in arms. (See Sandwalk, Ecographica, Evolutionary Novelties and Genomicron for sample critiques of both cover and content.)...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:11 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
Here's computer-graphics guru Jim Blinn narrating a demonstration reel of the animation used in the esteemed television series The Mechanical Universe (1985). This Caltech production turned a freshman physics course into a video experience covering Newtonian mechanics, introductory calculus, electromagnetism,...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 5:20 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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