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Natural phenomena

 By dixie

October 23rd

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 [...]

a(b+c)=(ab)+(ac) Politicise that, bitches

 By kola bear

May 18th

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.

Updates and tidbits

 By dixie

May 16th

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

Analysing our future in Space

 By uber

May 9th

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 [...]

Epistemeologically Speaking…

 By uber

May 3rd

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. [...]

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