May 2013
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April 2013
5 posts
When tourists decide to visit Dolores Park as a...
whilstinsf:
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RIP Richie
March 2013
3 posts
howstuffworks:
TechStuff » Tesla: The Man,...
February 2013
6 posts
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I’ve heard it said that one can’t...
“Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke,...”
– Thomas Pynchon “Gravity’s Rainbow.” Reminds me of Hemingway in Sun Also Rises in how he evokes a hangover, only this one is cut through by the delicious smell of breakfast. I don’t even like banana pancakes very much, and yet I crave them after this passage.
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I know it’s been a while, but rather than...
January 2013
9 posts
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Well hello again, and welcome back to Song of the...
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nothingmajor.com →
It’s got the Horseface Killer, i mean, COME ON!
The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in... →
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digerati:
Some of those still sound like science fiction.
A cyborg competes against able-bodied athletes at the Olympics.
NASA starts to work on a faster-than-light warp drive.
Scientists enhance the intelligence of primates with a chip.
Researchers create a robot with legs that can run faster than any human.
The first successful commercial cargo delivery to...
December 2012
9 posts
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As opposed to the story of the asshole in Connecticut, I turn to a not-quite-as-tragic-but-still-tragic tale whose ending people are trying to help rewrite, not in the whitewashing way, but in a just way. This man was a hero. The way his government treated him was disgraceful. ‘Fess Up.
“I’ve been asked many times, what would I do if I were NASA Director. And I said,...”
– On the Science Times podcast, astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a passionate and articulate case for space exploration and the crucial importance of citizen engagement with science.
Tyson recently testified before Senate on the same subject, with equal...
November 2012
3 posts
October 2012
11 posts
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What I wouldn’t give to have see this show,...
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium...”
– Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought. (via imathers)
Where they stand, Scientifically Speaking →
