By dixie
Fire season is in full swing here in Southern California. The fires have been burning all week, but here in Pasadena things ticked along as normal, though a little hotter than usual. This morning, that all changed. I walked to work this morning and noted the beautiful clear sky. When I left the building this [...]
By kola bear
I loved today’s xkcd so much that I thought I’d repost it here in case any of you dear readers don’t read this (probably my favourite) webcomic.
By dixie
I went to a thesis defence today that mentioned laser tweezers. This delighted me.
By uber
The vision of humanity departing this planet for one in a far-flung planetary system is deeply ingrained in any of us who have read or watched Science Fiction. In presenting his* analysis, Gilgamesh has demonstrated quite effectively the almost-maddening scale required to conduct any sort of viable interstellar travel. He puts the mass of the [...]
By uber
Perhaps one of the best-structured criticisms of the common anti-evolutionary arguments that I have read. It makes extensive reference to Epistemeology which, you may know makes this lunchtime blogging a close approximation of actual work* for me.
The best thing about it, though, is the first comment, which actually elicited that oh-so-attractive snort thing from me. [...]