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What Culture Has Wrought, The Grammys
The guy walked up to me and said---well, what he said started with a word not often seen in print. He ended his two-word phrase with a "you". Far from…
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Victorian Book Title Statistics
How many times did the word "God" appear in the title of books published in England from the year 1789 to 1914? And how about "science"? And "truth"? Others? Well,…
On Traveling
Given a robust sample size of three flights in one day, I can conclusively tell you that the time most people simultaneously spring from their seat and head for the…
Posted inFun
No Formal Post; Open Discussion
I have to travel and already the difficulties have begun. Let me just ask: Where are all the personal rocket ships we have been promised? I diligently read Astounding Science…
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NASA’s New Life, Global Warming Survey
Quick post today: busy with grading. NASA's Aliens You will have heard of NASA's press release, which all are characterizing as "redefining life as we know it." As I read…
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The United States of Diabetes?
More fun can be had with epidemiology than with any other branch of investigation. It's the only science whose practitioners regularly jump out from behind the bushes yelling Boo! And…
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Amazon Removes Buy Buttons, SUNY Albany Removes Departments
Amazon Removes Buy Buttons Amazon plays hardball with publishers, according to Onnesha Roychoudhuri writing in the Boston Review (HT to A&LD): This past January John Sargent, CEO of the publisher…
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Cornell’s Cancun Climate Conference Crew
"A delegation of Cornell researchers will join the fight against climate change Monday in the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico." So begins an article in the…