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clock | March 22, 2009For science nerds:
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
hat-tip.
stoat | March 18, 2009Janice is Menno Simons, who Ive never heard of, in the Which famous theologian are you? quiz on facebook. I'm an aetheist, which isn't a promising start, but I thought I'd have a go. Question 1 rather stumped me, since there isn't a "Through grace alone" option; if I did believe in a god it wouldn't be some wossy god who was bound by what I believed, though I'm sure god would be allowed discretion to take into account my beliefs, if so inclined.
I couldn't find a satisfactory answer to any of the other questions either, but I fought my way through to the end, only to discover that I needed to…
clock | March 12, 2009Isn't it?
I know John would love one, but a hundred bucks is a lot. They seem to be a dynamic and responsive company - perhaps if a bunch of us ask they will start making a miniature version as well, one that can fit in one's traveling bag and is not as costly?
awild | March 5, 2009This photo was ultimately rejected for a journal cover (it was the wrong shape!) but I shot it to accompany a research article that used museum specimens of midwestern bumblebees to compare current levels of genetic diversity with previous decades. Since this image won't appear in print anytime soon, I thought I'd share it here instead.
photo details: Canon 35mm f2.0 prime lens on a Canon EOS 20D
ISO 200, 1/125 sec, f/5, indirect strobe
stoat | March 5, 2009My son found the Incredibots site months ago, and showed me, and I made a few cars and stuff and though oh how interesting and then let it drop. But there are now any number of wonderful machines built there... today's is the pendulum clock. Now (assuming I have it right) the mechanism isn't correct - it's backwards - but even so it is a wonderful thing to build. Some people clearly have imagination. The Panzer IV is pretty good too.
clock | March 3, 2009Under the fold:
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The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c
Harold Varmus
Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri Martin
Political HumorJoke of the Day
clock | March 2, 2009
I forgot! But they say it was in a movie.
Mo explores the portrayal of Amnesia in the movies. Lovely!
clock | March 2, 2009But there is plenty of digital evidence it really happened!
Check out the #CISB hashtag on Twitter, the CISB'09 room on FriendFeed, and the blog posts:
Cromer Is SO Bracing '09 - Day One
Cromer Is SO Bracing '09 - Day Two
Cromer is SO Bracing - Friday Lunchtime update
Cromer Is SO Bracing - Pier Review
Cromer is SO Bracing - Saturday Afternoon
Cromer is SO Bracing - Sunday
Sorry to have missed this, but my ghost that "slept on that sofa" was there!
awild | February 27, 2009
Just a reminder. The infamous annual Insect Fear Film Festival (this year's theme: centipedes!) is happening tomorrow night on campus here in Urbana-Champaign.
More information:
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/entomology/egsa/ifff.html
clock | February 22, 2009This morning we took it easy - a little shopping for kids, some cakes at Veniero (white is shampita, brown is Napoleon), a little walk, including past the Museum Of Sex (did not have time to go in, though), with the special exhibit about sex in animals (including this, of course). Then a long wait at the new JetBlue terminal at JFK which is nice, big and technically very modern. Now at home, exhausted - tomorrow is a new (work)day!