flushed with pride
There is a marvelous French film from the 1970s called The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, starring Pierre Richard as a hapless concert …
Random silliness
there’s still science to do!
A little music, a little animated typography, a little song about the perils of science. /sarcasm
a very blackadder christmas
Oh, surely you all don't really want to be reading long blog posts on the Christmas holidays, do you? I'll be offline until Tuesday (mostly), …
FROM THE ARCHIVES: tit for tat
I've been at the National Association of Science Writers meeting all weekend (on Twitter: #sciwrite10), and will get around to blogging about that and Cool …
pst. today is administrative professionals day
Pst. C'mere. I'm supposed to be working on summer student issues right now, but this is way more important. It's Secretary's Day. What you decide …
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a vexation of zombies
The next best thing to a Christmas feast has to be holiday leftovers, and the same is true at the cocktail party. In preparation for …
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," …
help make michael a hottie
I'm on the road, first in Waterloo, Canada for the Perimeter Institute's Quantum 2 Cosmos Festival — you can read about a couple of the …
swf for godless heathen
Life is settling a bit, another book written, the next one in outline stages (Phillip, The Vegetarian Zombie…it's a children's book!), I love my job, …
a new wrinkle
"What – did you grow up in a barn?", the Rocket Scientist sighed, rolling his eyes in-between picking up my soda bottle from his table …