The Sokal hoax came out in 1996, not too far from AFD. I first read about it in the restrained pages of Physics Today, but I like Salon’s account. I have never been able to take postmodernism seriously since then. H.L. Mencken would have loved it. See also
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Back in December I linked to The End of the Universe by John Baez, Continue reading
From There, I fixed it.
It looks like a class on Linear Programming.
Yes, I know. I am terminally geeky.
The I.M. Gelfand Seminar.
From John Baez.
Grandma, by Chase Stone. Via Bad Astronomy
Disputed island disappears into sea
For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island’s gone.
New Moore Island, in the Sunderbans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said.
“What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,” said Hazra.
Scientists at the School of Oceanographic Studies at the university have noted an alarming increase in the rate at which sea levels have risen over the past decade in the Bay of Bengal.
As a parent will sometimes say to two children. “If you are going to fight about it, neither of you can have it.”
Via Slashdot
Via an old friend from the Chicago Folk Dance Community.
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