Pondering an editing project…Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
I’ve been a fan of Tom Waits and his music since 1990 or so, when my friend Mike introduced me to Waits’s 1985 album Rain Dogs. I admire his range and I find his subject matter enthralling. While Jennifer says my Tom Waits CDs can “live in your car” (apparently she’s not a fan), I listen [...]
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Imaginary Time at the Sandwich Shop (A Lesson in Cosmology)I’ve been re-reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, the revised and updated edition from 1998. Oh, I know that a lot of advances have been made in theoretical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and high energy particle physics over the past ten years, but I still think that much of what Hawking wrote applies. [...]
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Fly Me to a Flying Suborbital Space Platform…Today, Virgin Galactic unveiled their new spacecraft: the WhiteKnightTwo, christened “Eve” in honor of company founder Sir Richard Branson’s mother. Eve is the ferry craft that will deliver SpaceShipTwo and its passengers and payloads into space. Or at least to very high altitudes. Naturally, I think this is damn cool. I doubt that I’ll ever [...]
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Plants with EyesInspired by our recent trip to Safari West (where we got to play “Keeper for a Day”, which is why I got to hand feed a giraffe) and by watching The Mist, I’ve been amusing myself lately speculating about future directions of life on the surface of the Earth. Mostly I’ve been thinking about how [...]
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Bees and other stingersFriday, April 27th, 2007
I’ve been following, off and on, the issue with the vanishing bees. Colony Collapse Disorder is a pretty scary thing; while we don’t rely on bees exclusively for our crop pollination needs, they’re still crucial, and if the bees all go away, then things will be mighty tough. I don’t believe we’ll face major famine [...]
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Let's Break Your BrainThursday, March 1st, 2007
Via David Brin’s blog (have you not read anything by David Brin? No? What the hell’s wrong with you?) I found this article regarding another idea about the ultimate fate of our universe; rather than the ultimate heat death as has been occasionally predicted, or the Big Crunch as has alternately predicted, this new model [...]
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Urban Legends: Subversion vs. Radical ConservatismThursday, January 25th, 2007
I attended a panel once about urban legends, where the famous story of Dihydrogen Monoxide was brought up. You probably know the story: a kid gets a bunch of people to sign a petition calling for a ban on “dihydrogen monoxide”, listing all kinds of horrific side effects and dangers of the chemical. Later on [...]
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Ruminations on a ZeppoThursday, June 22nd, 2006
The cold I picked up in Ireland appears to have mutated into some sort of annoying permanent viral respiratory infection which has knocked me on my ass for the past couple of weeks. I’m extremely fortunate in that I can work from home while sick, which means I can stay close to my nebulizer and [...]
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The Not-a-schmuck report, #1Friday, February 17th, 2006
On the other hand, not everyone in the world is a schmuck. Dean Kamen is not a schmuck. If the man who gave us the insulin pump and the Segway (commercially a flop but technologically brilliant) wants to turn his brilliant mind to the problem of delivering power and clean water to the underdeveloped populations [...]
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Snips and DribblesWednesday, January 25th, 2006
In which I expound on cynicism, politics, science, and other random topics. Because I’m bored and unfocused.
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