Sunday morning at Boskone, I moderated a panel on “Global Warming: Facts and Myths, (and all that jazz)”, featuring James Morrow, Mark Olson, and Vince Docherty. As noted previously, I was a little worried that this would turn out to be absolutely awful in one of a couple of obvious ways, but it wound up… Continue reading Global Warming at Boskone: Not That Awful
Month: February 2009
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Notes on sociopathy "Sometimes, a day of interacting with the rest of the human race on the roads and streets leaves you convinced that the world would be a much nicer place if most newborn humans were tossed in a burlap sack with some stones and then deposited in the nearest pond. But hereâs the… Continue reading links for 2009-02-14
Happy News Open Thread
I’ve been a Grumpy Blogger this week, what with one thing and another (some of my general malaise has finally resolved into a cold, which I suspect explains a lot). I’m headed to Boskone for the weekend, though, so let’s end the week on a positive note. I’m declaring this a Happy News Open Thread:… Continue reading Happy News Open Thread
Darwin’s Birthday Baby Blogging 021209
It’s Darwin’s 200th birthday today, and SteelyKid is wearing her ladybug outfit to celebrate: If you can’t make it out, the outfit is pink, and covered with little pink and orange ladybugs. The feet are larger ladybugs, complete with antennae. Why is this an appropriate Dawrin’s Birthday outfit, you ask?
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Different Cliffs, Different Bottoms, Different Parachutes « Easily Distracted "If one of the goals of stimulus is to get American consumers shopping again, then I think itâs going to take some substantial changes to the entire retail landscape for that to be more than a momentary upward blip in a relentlessly downward spiral. And at… Continue reading links for 2009-02-12
Happy 200th Birthday…
…Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, most of ScienceBlogs is celebrating Darwin’s birthday, but I don’t have anything interesting to say about that. Actually, I don’t have anything all that interesting to say about Lincoln, either, but given that he’s unquestionably one of the two greatest Presidents (neck and neck with Washington, both ahead of FDR), I wouldn’t… Continue reading Happy 200th Birthday…
Interesting Stuff at Boskone
I usually post something here about what panels look interesting when the Boskone program goes up on the web. This year’s program went up over the weekend, and I’m just now getting around to making a list of worthwhile items. This tells you what kind of week I’m having. Anyway, I looked the program over… Continue reading Interesting Stuff at Boskone
Why Do Sports Media Hate Me?
I watched (bits of) a couple of basketball games last night for the first time in ages: Syracuse put up a good fight for a bit more than a half before being put away by a really good Connecticut team, and North Carolina blew Duke away late to win their fourth straight in Durham. These… Continue reading Why Do Sports Media Hate Me?
Best Physical Science Writing of 2008?
I didn’t expect the post griping about the Best American Science Writing anthology to generate as much discussion as it did. Shows what I know. In comments, “bsci” made a good suggestion: Instead of complaining about this volume, I’d love it if you and your readers made a list of the best physics writing in… Continue reading Best Physical Science Writing of 2008?
Wanted: News Smoothing
Back in the fall, I got all caught up in the election, like everybody else, and I added a bunch of blogs to my RSS feeds in Google Reader. I’m thinking that I might need to cut back to pre-election levels, if not lower, though. Following too many political blogs is giving me whiplash. This… Continue reading Wanted: News Smoothing