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birds are gross – rosemary mosco The awesome turkey vulture. (tags: comics biology science silly) nanoscale views: Combined single-molecule electronics and optics “The two-sentence summary: we can do simultaneous electronic and optical measurements on single molecules (!) by using our electrodes as optical antennas. This opens up lots of science to be done as well… Continue reading links for 2008-02-08

John Cleese | The A.V. Club “The A.V. Club recently had a loose, freewheeling conversation with the comedy icon about the flaws in Monty Python films, roles accepted and rejected, James Bond, the shortcomings of organized religion and studio executives, and why he doesn’t much care (tags: movies silly society culture) Dark matter may not… Continue reading links for 2008-02-07

WD5 most likely missed Mars, but we may never know – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society The asteroid is now officially lost. (tags: astronomy planets space science) Saint Gasoline » Blog Archive » The Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox Or, Why You Shouldn’t Major in Philosophy (tags: comics humanities silly) My… Continue reading links for 2008-02-06

Acephalous: At the Single Happiest Moment of My Professional Career … “Please snap the most unflattering photograph of me possible. “ (tags: football silly pictures) The knights who say “nerd”: 20 pop-cultural obsessions even geekier than Monty Python | The A.V. Club “20. Fanfic: Because cartoonist Jim Davis will probably never tap the raw, unspoken… Continue reading links for 2008-02-05

Locus Online: Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading: 2007 A few books and stories to pass those quiet moments. (tags: books stories SF) Science in the 21st Century Conference participants include a bunch of really smart people with innovative ideas about the future of science and the interplay between science, information technology, and society. And they invited… Continue reading links for 2008-02-04

Things That Would Be Weirder Than “Green Porno” | The A.V. Club “Then you unexpectedly come across the news that Isabella Rossellini is dressing up like various bugs and making a series of comedic short films about the way that insects have sex.” (tags: animals sex silly biology) Essay – Why Does It Still Take… Continue reading links for 2008-02-03

Lost in the ’70s: Steve Martin, “Grandmother’s Song” | Popdose “Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.” (tags: music silly) The Third Annual A.V. Club Film Poll | The A.V. Club The readers have their say. (tags: movies review culture) Good Math, Bad Math : Idiot Math Professors, Fractions, and the Fun of Math Why fractions matter.… Continue reading links for 2008-02-02

Songs for the Dumped: The Prelude | Popdose “[A] two-week anthology in which music nerds write about tracks they’ve attached to a particular crippling breakup, let you splash around in the stories behind them and hopefully, if we’ve done our jobs, make you feel slightly better about your own mi (tags: music culture society sex)… Continue reading links for 2008-02-01

Jacks of Science − Pimp my Hypothetical Home Laboratory “Ever since I saw the painting shown above, I’ve wanted to suffocate birds in my very own home laboratory. As I got older, the desire to destroy life subsided, but the desire for a home laboratory remained.” (tags: science biology chemistry silly gadgets) The Washington Monthly… Continue reading links for 2008-01-31

The Edublogs Magazine : Who Are the Top Edubloggers? “Aseem Badshah has created a listing of the Top Education Bloggers or edubloggers based upon Technorati’s rankings.” This page reviews some of them. (tags: blogs education academia) The Other Side of Graduate Admissions | Cosmic Variance How the faculty at UW’s Astronomy department choose next year’s… Continue reading links for 2008-01-30