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Historiography of Science, Comix Version
Category: Physics
Maybe Brian, gg and I need to expose the problem of "textbook cardboard" in comic-book format....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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Category: Wobosphere Silliness
The vertical axis, if you were curious, is in furlongs per femtofortnight. Original via P-Zed. Update (28 May): A larger and cleaner version of this image is available here....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 6:44 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cephalosearch
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
My colleague in the next office discovered something while playing doing some item of serious scientific research which required using Google's "Wonder Wheel" feature. Scientists are easily amused, sometimes....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Giving the GIF of Life
Category: Cellular automata
The following is an edited repost of an item I originally wrote last year. Sometimes, my brain needs to take a break from work, from arguing on the Internet and all the rest. On these occasions, I like to take...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:38 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Giant Science Machines 101
Category: Physics
How do the detectors used in high-energy particle physics work? Anadi Canepa gives an introduction at Quantum Diaries: Both ATLAS and CMS are so called "multi-purpose" detectors as measurements taken are suitable for a broad physics programme (some of which...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's Been Too Long Since I've Made an Avatar Reference
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
Hmmm. Firebenders draw power from Sozin's Comet, comets are studied by astronomers, portrayals of astronomy in TV shows are critiqued by. . . . (Original picture here.)...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:49 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wormhole Opens over Santiago de Compostela
Category: Pictures
The bad news is that the sky has opened. The good news is that a physicist was there with a camera. (Going to be busy again for several days. Papers in the pipeline, hurrah. . . .)...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:23 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The World of One Physics Student: Fête de Ferris
Category: Pictures
I'm busy tearing my hair out over data analyses today (not that the hair was long for my head anyway — curse you, recessive alleles!), so here's a picture from my "wandering the Earth" photo album. Illuminated Ferris wheel in...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
