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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial. He has written a science-fiction novel.

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Audiobook Announcement: The Authoritarians

I have been informed that Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians (2007) is now available in audiobook format from Cherry Hill Publishing. Cherry Hill is now selling an eight-CD recording of the book read by the author, with a foreword by John...

Scathing Review FAIL

I haven't yet seen the new The Day the Earth Stood Still movie. Generally speaking, I haven't been terribly speedy about seeing movies as they come out; sometimes, I just wait until they're available on mplayer. The reviews have not...

More Vertices of the Blogohedron

I'm currently staring at a heap of numbers and trying to make sense out of them. In lieu of substantive discourse from me, therefore, here are a few items I've recently enjoyed reading: Jonathan Shock explores the physics of rainbows...

Physics Makes a Toy of the Brain

Can physics tell us about ourselves? To phrase the question more narrowly: can the statistical tools which physicists have developed to understand the collective motion of large agglutinations of particles help us figure out what our brains are doing? If...

Shorter Elsevier

The case of the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is a moderately long and troubling one; before I write anything else about it, I should try to compress what's happened so far. Yo, dudes, it's Elsevier. This journal we've got...

James Madison and Isaac Asimov Read Science Blogs

The Immortal Storm of daily life.

On the arXivotubes: Spatial Ecology Edition

The evolution and ecology of spatially distributed populations is a confusing field to study, since nobody seems to be fully aware of the work which other people are doing. In a way, this mirrors the systems being studied: spreading a...

The Necessity of Mathematics

What we need, and what we're missing.

Friday Video: Derek Jacobi as Alan Turing

A clip from a 1996 BBC show.

An Alloy of Pleasures

I revisit The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.

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