Blogcoven

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.

I went to a thesis defence today that mentioned laser tweezers. This delighted me.

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 [...]

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 [...]

I live and work in a pretty geeky place. An undergrad once commented one of the reasons it’s so attractive to geeks is, “Because here, we’re normal.” Although the aggregate geekiness is high, there’s still a spectrum of geekiness in the population. (Like goldfish, some people will adjust based on their surroundings. This often has [...]