Science as a way of life
I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's this and this. Welcome.
August 30, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
I am sitting in the smallest room in the house and thinking, Space is crazy. Space is where Euclid's parallel lines never meet. Space is where Einstein's rays of light bend for gravitational winds. Space is almost all of...
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Category: Creative commons
A review of John Gribbin's The Scientists at balancinglife, by Sunil. Holding a Program in One's Head, a spiffy essay on how to create software, by Paul Graham....
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August 29, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Technorati tracks blogs. But, google may tell you more....
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August 28, 2007
Category: Creative commons
by Christine Edison. (via BLDGBLOG)...
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Warren Ellis, the colorful British writer, writes about Burst Culture. * Every day, millions of people download single lumps of data that take them three minutes to consume. They're called mp3s. It's a burst culture. Embrace the idea for a...
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August 27, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Check it out. There's a lot of tips for writing science as fiction. Rebecca Goldstein, MacArthur fellow, novelist, writes I have come to believe, over the years, that literary fiction is remarkably suited to grappling - as philosophy and science...
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From the TheScian.com August Newsletter: I want to share an incident that happened yesterday at my 3 year old neice's birthday party. A few families were invited and the kids were playing inside an inflated house - they call that...
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August 26, 2007
Category: Behind Curtains
CBS likes Lord of the Flies. What better way to show the appreciation than to use it for a reality show[NYT]. What did you say? Kids are not adults? Come on, don't be so naive. Kids acting like adults makes...
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August 24, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Poverty is part of India's story writes Peter Foster (Telegraph) in his blog that expands on his earlier article. I am in agreement with Foster on the apathy among well-to-do Indians although I think he makes some generalizations about middle...
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A CBS Video with, shall we say, new revelations on Mother Theresa. Shortly after beginning work in Calcutta's slums, the spirit leaves her. "Where is my faith?" she writes. "Even deep down ... there is nothing but emptiness and darkness....
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