A great clip from his World Science Festival appearance the other night, especially the bit toward the end: “One thing I think that as a nation we should be embarrassed by is that the scientists– you can do this experiment yourself, I’ve done the experiment– the scientists, by and large, know more liberal arts than… Continue reading Neil deGrasse Tyson Agrees With Me About The Innumeracy of Intellectuals
Month: June 2010
Woo! Science Party! Woo!
You might not know this, because I’ve been so shy about mentioning it here, but I’ll be signing How to Teach Physics to Your Dog at 1:30 pm today as part of the Authors Alley program at the World Science Festival Street Fair. It’s true. It looks (at least in the tiny patch of sky… Continue reading Woo! Science Party! Woo!
Exploring Hidden Dimensions at the World Science Festival
Since I was going to be down here anyway to sign books at the World Science Festival Street Fair, Kate and I decided to catch one of the Saturday events at the Festival. It was hard to choose, but we opted for the program on Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace (Live coverage was here, but the… Continue reading Exploring Hidden Dimensions at the World Science Festival
The Limits of Rohirrim Vision
Over at Tor.com, Kate has a Lord of the Rings re-read post about the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, which includes a shout-out to me that I missed because I was driving to NYC: Ãomer is “scarely a mile” away when the standard unfurls and is clearly seen to bear the White Tree, Seven Stars,… Continue reading The Limits of Rohirrim Vision
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Festive Update
We missed the formal presentaion at the World Science Festival stargazing event last night, and it was cloudy enough to prevent actual stargazing, but the giant mock-up of the James Webb Space Telescope is giant and cool even in the dark. More importantly, Neil deGrasse Tyson is awesome. We got there around 9:30, and he… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Festive Update
Links for 2010-06-05
IPN announces Ninth Annual Bastiat Prize Competition | International Policy Network “For the ninth year, International Policy Network (IPN) is accepting submissions for its annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The Prize is open to writers anywhere in the world whose published articles eloquently and wittily explain, promote and defend the principles and institutions of the… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-05
Required Reading in Science
Over at Inside Higher Ed they have a news report on complaints about the content of required reading for students entering college. This comes from the National Association of Scholars, a group dedicated to complaining that multiculturalism is corrupting our precious bodily fluids pushing aside the shared heritage of Western civilization, so most of it… Continue reading Required Reading in Science
Links for 2010-06-04
slacktivist: Sex & Money, part 2 “I’m being too polite here. I need to state this more vigorously because I need to put it in a way that will make my accusers fruitfully angry. So let me try this: The Bible is not a book about homosexuality and it will not allow itself to be… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-04
Thursday Baby Blogging 060310
I sometimes get comments asking why so many of the baby blogging pictures are taken from above. The answer is twofold: 1) I’m rather tall, and thus it’s hard for me to get down to baby level to take pictures straight on, and 2) when I do try to get down to baby level, most… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 060310
The Periodic Table Is Not a Crossword Puzzle
A number of SF-related sites have been talking about the “Periodic Table of Women in SF” put together by Sandra McDonald, presumably passed around at Wiscon. James Nicoll has a list of the authors, and SFSignal has a link to the table, which I will reproduce here to save you the annoyance of opening a… Continue reading The Periodic Table Is Not a Crossword Puzzle