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October 31, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
This might be handy, if you happen to be dressed up as a ghost or flying superhero or bat, etc - the SCQ has a piece up today, that goes over the physics of learning to fly, a la Hitchhiker's...
Posted by David Ng at 1:54 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
This is maybe the only Halloween piece I've ever written. And since it is about two years old, the leaders have changed, although I suspect the bickering would be pretty much the same. Anyway, here it is reprinted for all...
Posted by David Ng at 9:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2007
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
It looks like a lot, but really it's not (hey, that rhymes) Clearly, food is a hot topic these days. You see it constantly in the cultural dominance of things like the Food Channel, Martha Stewart, or The Iron...
Posted by David Ng at 12:06 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: About writing generally
A couple months back, I had a piece published at The Walrus which kind of looked at brief encounters with famous people - you know, the type that I'm sure many of us had during the course of our academic...
Posted by David Ng at 9:57 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
A basic candy taxonomy's derivation and dissemination...revisited.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
A piece of geeky brilliance, reprinted from McSweeneys, one of my favourite websites:...
Posted by David Ng at 12:21 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
This is kind of clever. Published a while ago in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, this is a discussion of medical practices using the two central MD characters found in the Simpson's world. Like the forces of good and...
Posted by David Ng at 9:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 25, 2007
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Wilco is good, sometimes exceptional, but often inconsequential. So it would appear that the above statement is up for discussion. I'm speaking specifically about statement number 9 of the truth, now that Ben has noted that Wilco has relinquished...
Posted by David Ng at 10:32 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 24, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Well how cool is that? Looks like one of the starting pitchers tonight is our very own Jeff Francis. What makes it especially interesting to me, is that Jeff was once a student at my home institution, the University...
Posted by David Ng at 11:49 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
I just saw Timon put this up on Filter, and found it very funny (the control experiment made me chuckle). Worth a boo: I've put this below the fold because it starts automatically, and I'm not sure how to disable...
Posted by David Ng at 11:27 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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