the unbearable lightness of LEGO
Is there anything LEGO can't build? Jen-Luc Piquant is positively giddy over a recent find while trawling Twitter. It seems science journalist Adam Rutherford (who …
Archaeology
the ones that got away: science through cross-disciplinary eyes
There's a song by Bruce Cockburn called "The Trouble With Normal" that has stuck with me for years since I first heard it in graduate …
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standing stones in the (inland) sea
Though I don't like to admit it, I grew up in Michigan a quarter mile from Lake Huron. I also have thing for shipwrecks and …
what lies beneath
Since we’re dallying at the science/art interface this week, here’s some breaking news via AIP’s Physics News Update: a group of Italian and German scientists …
the skull beneath the skin
"Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures undergroundLeaned backward with a lipless grin." — T.S. Eliot, "Whispers of …
surfin’ safari
Many people might not be aware that Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens), beloved author of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was an …
asphalt jungle
In 1769, Gaspar Portola, the Spanish governor of Baja California, led an excursion across the Los Angeles River and down what is now Wilshire Boulevard …
search lights in the sky
We are now well into Day 13 of the search for missing millionaire-cum-adventurer Steve Fossett, whose plane disappeared off the radar — literally — somewhere …
mummy sings the blues
Jen-Luc Piquant has been on a bit of a mummy craze this past week, ferreting out such online gems as a downloadable Mummy Maze Game; …