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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: Science history
Isaac Newton: emo teenager ("No man understands me. [...] I cannot but weepe. I know not what to do") who grew up to revolutionize science, pioneer new mathematics and, yes, fight crime. Here's Tom Levenson talking about Newton's career as...
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Category: Special Relativity
To provide some background to the momentous event of seeing the first collisions in the LHC, here's a video from CERN: ALSO: Happy sesquicentennial to the Origin of Species! Have a site done in Flash to celebrate....
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Category: Bibliophilia
I just noticed on my blag sidebar that the ScienceBorg Collective is offering ten free copies of Jason Rosenhouse's much-lauded book, The Monty Hall Problem (2009). Ten winners will be chosen, one each day for ten days, and the urn...
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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...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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