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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: Bibliophilia
Three book-related items up today: First, a hearty congratulations to Brian Switek, whose book, now titled Written In Stone, is set to be published next fall! If the sample chapters I saw a few months back are any indication, Brian's...
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Category: Popularization
Bora has the latest on ScienceOnline2010: The main event - the actual sessions of the conference - will be held, like last two years, in the beautiful building of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (and publisher of American Scientist)....
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Category: Bibliophilia
From the man who did not endorse Stuart Pivar. It seems to be characteristic of the impact of scientific discovery on the literary world and on popular culture that certain items of vocabulary, interpreted vaguely or incorrectly, are often the...
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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...
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Category: Bibliophilia
Nowadays, "approval from a publishing company" ranks surprisingly low on the list.
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Category: Evolution
Brazen stupidity has been given a national soapbox.
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Category: About this Blag
While I'm away, amuse yourselves with a new AlpineKat rap video.
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Category: Astronomy
Spotted on the BBC website, under the headline "The truth about Roswell?" There is a lunar quality to the landscape of New Mexico which seems somehow appropriate for a state which is our portal to the heavens. It is here...
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Category: Physics
First, he came for the linguists. The sure-to-be-a-hit movie Angels and Demons just recently opened in Geneva, and a flock of physicists descended upon it. (I feel like we need a better collective noun for physicists, the way a group...
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