December 28, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS | FINAL GAME: Darwin v. HIV Now that d-Orbitals are sitting at home doing the work of orbitals while TiVoing the Darwin-HIV match-up, it's hard for some to believe that they once looked to take...
Read on »
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 27, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS | FINAL GAME: Darwin v. HIV This is how tournaments go. You end up with some of the classic games in the middle, you find a monster match-up in the Sweet Sixteen. And that's how...
Read on »
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
It was Particle versus F=ma in the Sweet Sixteen, and BBC Radio 4 LW was broadcasting with those charming accents.
Read on »
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 25, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
And then there was a slew of action in the Mortar and Pestle Region...
Read on »
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS | FINAL GAME: Darwin v. HIV What began as a field of 64 highly competitive teams has ended with just Darwin and HIV. With the tournament's Final game currently underway, we look back on a...
Read on »
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 22, 2007
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
A good one too, by Spike Milligan. CHRISTMAS 1970. A little girl called Sile Javotte Said 'Look at the lovely presents I've got' While a little girl in Biafra said 'Oh what a lovely slice of bread'....
Read on »
Posted by David Ng at 4:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
"And each generation, full of itself,/ continues to think/ that it lives at the summit of history" -- so ends Affonso Romano de Sant' Anna's poem "Letter to the Dead" (as posted here last year). In the same spirit of...
Read on »
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Well judging by the slowing down of comments, it would appear that the holiday internet slowdown is upon us. Which also means that it's time to put out a post that is a little on the light side. For...
Read on »
Posted by David Ng at 12:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Well it's been 9 months going and 64 teams from the beginning, but it's come down to this folks - a battle between two giants in the scientific world. DARWIN vs HIV So how does it look? Well, Darwin has...
Read on »
Posted by David Ng at 7:34 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2007
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS In a stunning development, HIV advances to the final by default. Neither HIV nor Fossil Fuels could be reached for comment. Looks like the final is Darwin versus HIV....
Read on »
Posted by David Ng at 3:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks