February 2009
26 posts
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seawhite: South-west wind blowing in over the... →
seawhite: Alberto Cavaldo, Futurist, in the... →
seawhite: Zach has chosen rice and chicken. Below,... →
There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
“There...
– thinkBuddha.org
Coyne’s chapter on “The Engine of Evolution” begins with a splendidly macabre...
– Stunning bee vs hornet defence
The gospel according to Darwin Richard Dawkins TLS
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A scientist arrogantly asserts that thunder is not the triumphal sound of God’s...
– The gospel according to Darwin Richard Dawkins TLS
[I]n recent years publishers have grown increasingly fond of describing books as...
– Laws of the thriller Sean O’Brien TLS
The gestures can be as simple as using his fingers and thumbs to create a...
– TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video | Epicenter from Wired.com
It’s such a great little step on the way to a Web of Things. Here’s another such...
– Adactio: Journal—Microprinter has a posse
seawhite: Trans-atlantic cabling and enamel mugs... →
seawhite: A piece entitled 'The Ideals of Our... →
When I was a child, I was extremely puzzled because men dogmatically pronounced...
– Snowflakes and Unprovable Dogmas
Not long ago, I picked up my newspaper and read that the...
– Snowflakes and Unprovable Dogmas
Holes bounded by crystal-lographic faces, or “negative” crystals,...
– “Negative” Crystals in Ice: A Method for Growth — Knight and Knight 150 (3705): 1819 — Science
On Nov. 1, 1986, Nancy C. Knight collected two identical snowflakes on a glass...
– A Myth Melts | Futility Closet
I would take “phoneme to denote upper case” as “phoneme to...
– Language Log » The upper-case phoneme
From Wodehouse’s A Slice of Life: “Sir Jasper...
– Language Log » The upper-case phoneme
expressed in nonary Marain, the nine-part binary base of the Culture’s...
– Language Log » The upper-case phoneme
He assigned to each class a monosyllable of two letters; to each difference, a...
– Untitled Document
El Idioma Analítico de John Wilkins, Jorge Luis... →
El Idioma Analítico de John Wilkins