for whom the bells toll
Jen-Luc Piquant is tres desole that she missed the annual Talk Like a Pirate Day, just because her meat-world counterpart needed to focus on more …
Acoustics
pack mentality
Yes, it has its naysayers, but Wikipedia is an amazing repository of odd and little known facts to amaze and delight the perpetually curious. For …
stradivari’s secret
Back in January 2007, Washington Post reporter Gene Weingarten conducted a sneakily ingenious experiment, conspiring with world-famous — and current uber-cute Cyber crush of Jen-Luc …
if you could see what i hear
For every major Hollywood hit film that smashes box office records, there’s a thousand modest little gems that get passed over and forgotten. One of …
tripping the light fantastic
One of the best things about blogging is the stuff you stumble upon while researching something else. Take, for instance, my recent Google search on …
mind the gap
Madrid is home to many marvels of human ingenuity, but among the most striking is a kinetic sculpture by Eusebio Sempere, built entirely of hollow …
jacaranda daze
It's that time of year in Los Angeles again, when the jacaranda trees are in full bloom, strewing their ultraviolet blue petals along sidewalks and …
i hear the cosmos singing
Things have been so hectic of late that I almost missed this February 28 article in Nature announcing that the new Kjell Henriksen Observatory on …
charity begins online
It's possible I have a streak of hypochondria. When I suffered the Amazing Five-Day Headache from Hell last December, there was, I admit, a brief …
tunnel vision
Stanford physicists are apparently marching to the beat of a nanoscale drummer these days, according to a paper in the February 8 issue of Science. …