People Standing in Lines

ZapperZ is a physics blogger who worries about people believing that humans and dinosaurs co-existed, that ghosts are real and evolution isn’t; and in short, that the public knowledge of and interest in science is thin as a dime.  He met a scientist, a woman, who said the only way to explain science to politicians […]

Abstruse Goose: Life Paths Integrated Over Time

Abstruse Goose sure has it in for athletes, doesn’t he.  Fine with me.  I’m less happy that he doesn’t arrange a life path for people who are born modestly, live modestly, work like dogs (actually not like any dog I’ve ever met, friendly mooches), have modest success and a gratifying life.  Boy, is that ever […]

Science Metaphors (cont.): Sublime

Sublime:  you don’t hear it much except as an adjective meaning really, really good, used the way “divine” or “glorious” “wonderful” are used, just another adjective, nothing to do with divinity or glory or wonder.   But really, sublime describes something that takes you beyond the ordinary — Glenn Gould plays Bach sublimely —  something […]

Abstruse Goose: the Creation, Part 2

Abstruse Goose says:  The following sentence is false.  The preceding sentence is true. Then he adds:  The title text is true. He’s toying with us, isn’t he. Credit: http://abstrusegoose.com/244

Abstruse Goose: Creation

Probably not God’s fault, but very few people understand that business of hidden dimensions in string theory. http://abstrusegoose.com/235

Science Metaphors (cont.): Critical Opalescence

I’m aging.  I love too many people whose health and wellbeing is too uncertain.  I want to write about too many things, each one requiring too much time and too many brains.  I take on too many assignments and some of the most important are outside my talents and over my head.  I can’t keep […]