With Climate Journalism Like This, Who Needs Fiction?
How would you figure out whether Global Warming is real? Part 3.
Cherry picking the data
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Frederick Pohl, R.I.P.
From Locus
From black holes to bombs, and back again
Physicists, like the ancient Greeks, like to gossip about the gods. A few days ago, three physicists* were talking on Twitter** about a review by a fourth physicist, Freeman Dyson, of a biography of one of these gods, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and about his war with another one, John Archibald Wheeler.
Monday Night Irish Class, August 19, 2013
Irish Class, August 19, 2013
Rang Gaeilge, 19ú lá Mí na Lúnasa 2013
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Imperium sine fine
I sometimes see this license plate on a sports car in the parking lot at my bus stop.
SF Quote
I first read L. Sprague de Camp’s SF classic Lest Darkness Fall (written in 1939) more than 40 years ago. It still has not grown old. Tonight I ran across this passage:
Some of the best maps ignore geography
Life in zero-G
From the transcript of the Apollo 10 Flight
How Gaul-ing!
Celebrating France’s First Resistance Fighter
Of course, they are celebrating him now in a Romance rather than a Celtic language.
From Explorator
Female Pharoahs
Actual Queens Regnant. There were six before Cleopatra.
Unlike Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII in the Ptolemaic dynasty), the others seem to have been actual Egyptians.
From Explorator
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 