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"[Physicists] have analysed the distribution of registrations for two conferences...[and] they can describe this distribution by a simple model, assuming that the 'pressure to register' is inversely proportional to the time left before the deadline."
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An interactive guide to "bizarre" dinosaurs and their features. Via Laelaps.
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I can barely cope with the normal-size kind...
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"[The author] also refreshingly free of hang-ups about using the words "sexy" and "sexiness" in a scientific paper (also "firm and perky", which I suspect that at least one peer reviewer will ask him to quantify), which I'd like to see more
More like this
Due to work stuff, I'm very busy this week, and I don't have time to write a detailed
pathological language post, so I chose something that doesn't take a lot of explanation, but
While browser over at programming.reddit.com, I came across something simultaneously hideous and amazing.
I saw it at Julie's.
"American Music," the Violent Femmes
"California Stars," Billy Bragg and Wilco
"The City of New Orleans," Arlo Guthrie
"Song to Woody," Bob Dylan
"The Body of an American," the Pogues