twin suns: better than one?
[NOTE: This post originally appeared at our new home at Scientific American.] Yesterday Greg Laden posted a tantalizing snippet from a news release announcing a …
Television
the mother of invention
So, last night the Time Lord and I participated in the San Diego Science Festival with a conversation about "Exploring Your Inner Geek." We organized …
hot blogoversary linkage
I've been so busy the past couple of weeks that I missed an important event: The 5th "blogoversary" on February 5 of Cocktail Party Physics! …
veronica mars: science role model
So, what do you do when you're getting over the flu, and aren't completely incapacitated in a drugged-out stupor, but also not exactly 100% and …
we can haz diversity?
A couple of months ago, co-blogger Diandra wrote about scientist stereotypes she encountered in a 4th grade class, in which very few of the kids …
things are often not what they seem to be…
Things are often not what they appear to be. This is a good, basic rule of life, not just one of those things you say …
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when science narratives go bad
So, the Spousal Unit and I clicked on the Science Channel last week for a bit of Monday evening viewing to unwind after a long …
of science and superheroes
It was a whirlwind weekend at the AAAS meeting in San Diego, where the Spousal Unit and several interdisciplinary colleagues expounded on the mysteries of …
my kind of town
If it's Thursday, it must be Berkeley. That's where I was a couple of nights ago, having driven up from Los Angeles to attend Lawrence …
liar, liar
I'm tired of the stories that you always tell Shakespeare couldn't tell a story that well You're the largest liar that was ever created You …