Author: Chad Orzel

How Hot Is My Tablet?

I had a weird and disturbing shutdown incident on my tablet PC (a Lenovo X61) a week or two ago, which got me many screens of ominous looking text before it finally booted up properly again. Poking at it afterwards, it seemed to be running a bit hot, and it doesn’t seem like there’s a… Continue reading How Hot Is My Tablet?

Seasonal Food Mystery

Why is it that you can buy apple cider all year round, but apple cider donuts are treated as a seasonal item, and only in stores for a week and a half in October? Happily, these people make them year round, and they’re available at the Schenectady Greenmarket. And they’re awesome. Mmmmm…. cider donuts. If… Continue reading Seasonal Food Mystery

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links for 2009-05-03

The Washington Monthly "It’s simple, really. If a private school wants to discriminate, fine. I don’t like it, but it’s a private religious entity. Don’t, however, discriminate and then ask the government to use tax dollars to subsidize the institution." (tags: education politics US religion) Destroying the planet… with science! « Skulls in the Stars… Continue reading links for 2009-05-03

links for 2009-05-02

slacktivist: TF: Bruce’s Big Plan "Bruce, like Tim LaHaye, has a way of running off the rails when he gets into the details of his prophecy scheme. One can, in fact, open the book of Revelation and find mentioned there seven "seals" of divine judgment. By mentioning that fact first, Bruce casts a kind of… Continue reading links for 2009-05-02

Now Surviving Elsewhere

Like Sauron creeping into Dol Guldur, Quantum Diaries has returned to darken the blogosphere once more, driving Tommaso Dorigo before it— Oh, wait. More good science blogs is a good thing, not a creeping menace. Even if they are particle physicists. Anyway, in a move that is unrelated to the return of Quantum Diaries, and,… Continue reading Now Surviving Elsewhere

Pop-Science Past: The Collapsing Universe, by Isaac Asimov

Some time back, I was a little surprised to hear James Nicoll use Asimov as a touchstone for science popularizers. I only really knew his fiction, and can’t recall hearing his pop-science books cited by anybody who wasn’t also an SF fan. So, when I ran across one of his science books while we were… Continue reading Pop-Science Past: The Collapsing Universe, by Isaac Asimov

Old and Lame, but Funny

I’m walking a little gingerly today, thanks to an injury to my left foot. Sadly, this was not the result of anything cool, like rescuing orphans from a burning building, or dunking a basketball in order to win a league championship. Instead, I bruised the bottom of my foot by landing on one of Emmy’s… Continue reading Old and Lame, but Funny

links for 2009-05-01

theweaselking: Never trust a marsupial. (tags: silly video animals) Do You Have Swine Flu? Because you need confirmation from the Internet. (tags: silly medicine internet) Jacks of Science » Blog Archive » Learning Science through Comic Books, A List "Reading textbooks gives me scary flashbacks of my days as an undergraduate (about 2 weeks ago).… Continue reading links for 2009-05-01