It's been almost three months since Arunn, in the comments to this post, promised to write a post about the thermoregulatory function of big, flappy elephant ears. Finally, he's gotten to it, and now you can go and read his post. A perfect entry for the next edition of Panta Rei, which needs your entries ASAP.
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One of the more annoying points of contention back in the days of the Sokal hoax and the "Science Wars" was an argument over social construction.
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One of SteelyKid's birthday gifts from my parents was a wheeled wooden penguin on a stick. If you roll it along the ground, the wings flap, with a very satisfying clacking noise. It took SteelyKid a little while to get the hang of it, but she's got the idea now:
This week's hangout with Rhett Allain, in which we talk about how we got into physics, how we find stuff to read, what we enjoyed on physics blogs this week, what we do and don't like about Twitter, and the revenge of the Sith.
Coturnix: this is one thing that I always like about some of the "non-Indian" people I know...they definitely ARE sincere in what they do...
Good to see you do remember what I wrote in the past and do follow up. Thanks for that excellent post of yours then, which set me to write this one... ;)