physicists embrace the splatter master
[Originally posted at our new home at Scientific American.] What is it about painter Jackson Pollock that physicists find so entrancing? His notorious drip paintings …
Art
tripping the light fantastic
Jen-Luc Piquant sez, "Phooey on C.P. Snow and his outmoded 'two cultures' argument!" (She remains a diehard fan of his excellent novel, The Search.) The …
i am a camera
It's Halloween! Jen-Luc Piquant has donned her usual vampire costume for the occasion, although she was tempted to dress up as Lady Gaga this year, …
gaga for science
It's been a busy spring. Among other highlights, the Spousal Unit and I made a whirlwind trip to New York City in March, so he …
beautiful tools
Audiences flocked to to the futuristic thriller Minority Report when it debuted in 2002, and while I generally find Tom Cruise almost unwatchable as an …
moving targets
Over at the Ptak Science Books blog — maintained by John Ptak, whose insatiable passion for cataloging historical scientific oddities makes the blog an absolutely …
frosty gets small
So, co-blogger Diandra was visiting over the weekend, and we ended up partying with UCLA physicist David Saltzberg — also known as the "Neutrino Whisperer," …
chamber of secrets
If one more cold or flu virus hits our household before the end of 2009, we might officially place ourselves under quarantine, or opt to …
crown jewels
They say that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but actually, it depends upon the girl in question. Jen-Luc Piquant, for instance, prefers emeralds and …
does science fiction matter? at all? even a little?
Oh, cool! My favorite topic. And somebody asked me to write about it! Peggy Kolm, over at Biology in Science Fiction, sent the Cocktail Party …
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