My quasi-periodic dump of interestingee thingees off the intertoobz
- "The Most Precise Extra-Galactic Black-Hole Mass Measurement" A. Gould (ApJ submitted) aka the most talked about paper in astronomy this week...
- How to kill your audience - apparently fake Wolverine claws are essential...
- Time to Rethink Cosmic Inflation? - and you thought CDM vs MOND was getting out of control ;-)
- Will Climate Change Ever Have Its Sandy Hook Moment: Why, Yes, Yes It Will.
Jolly Unpleasant It Will Be Too. - Why don't more girls study physics
- Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught: 1,2,3,4,6,8,9
- There's More to Mathematics than Rigour and Proofs
- Motivations, Study Habits are Key to Math Ability - Checking. Yup, Still No Royal Road...
- How to Manage your GPA - a classic I promised careful readers to relink
- We Will Rock You!
- Genetic Study of House Dust Mites Demonstrates Reversible Evolution - Dollo's Law disproved.
This is actually very important in a subtle way, even if it is not surprising. - How a cat boosts your creativity - and then they had to go tell all the dog people
- 3Doodler
- Temporary tattoos could make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible
- World's worst Chavez Obit - more Reporters Behaving Badly
- Academic Assholes...
I am left to ponder: why does one of the open tabs on my browser have the single search word "Justin"...
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....Bieber?
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Is there some reason the Grauniad article link does not work?
yup, malformed relative path
should be fixed now