interweaving ideas
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The Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum
I happened to make it on opening day to this exhibit. TGAW, my wonderful adventuring partner, came along with me, pointing out all the most interesting parts of the displays I was too busy taking photos of to notice. I’d been eagerly awaiting the exhibit’s opening since I caught the following enticing glimpse of it…
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Flash SF: Information Entropy
The complete dismantling of universe Hexonia was a tragic, however necessary evil. It was a series of genocides numbering in the hundreds of billions, but all of the matter within our own Universe was all ready consumed in our ultimate computation. The question naturally arose, in those brief moments when there was sufficient processing power…
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Comparisons of the Candidate’s Answers to Science Debate 2008
Science Debate 2008 has posted the two candidate’s answers side by side, and I have taken the time to thoroughly review them. Obama comes out the obvious winner in this debate for consistently demonstrating a clear understanding of the issue and proposing specific policies to handle it. McCain only clearly won on the topic of…
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Computer Science Month: A Computer is All Anyone Needs
A few years ago some dorks tried to make October Computer Science learning month, but now I can’t find any links to it. So I’m guessing it was discontinued due to excessive wedgies and wet-willies being inflicted on participants, which is a shame because computers are the single most coolest invention on the planet right…
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American Natural History Museum: Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals
When I look at the incredible wealth of biodiversity contained within just the class mammalia in its 164 million years of existence, it’s staggering what we don’t know. The immense number of species that weren’t preserved in the fossil record and stories that took place before homo sapiens arrived to witness them are fantastic example…
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Flash Fiction, Wage-Slave Avatar
A short short story where a human avatar for real life is confronted with another client’s superior robot avatar. Posted to 365tomorrows, you can read it here. Ng’s eyes were straining as far as they could go in their sockets to get a look at the brand new shiny avataris sapiens parked at the end…
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The Mosaic Meme
Following in the footsteps of bloggers TGAW and Chriggy. a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. b. Using only the first page of results, pick an image. c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker. The Questions: 1. What is your first…
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Take a Child Outside Week 2008
0924 Last year I ran a series of photos and quotes in celebration of Take a Child Outside Week that purely rejoiced in nature. For this year’s event, running from September 24th through the 30th, I’ve chosen quotes emphasizing the importance of nature in education and understanding ourselves: Hawaiian Tree Fern Credit: brewbook “Sit down…
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Economists Got No Science
“The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.” – John Kenneth Galbraith Is there any academic field more in desperate need of empirical standards than economics? Just consider the following statements: Quick!…
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One Web Day 2008
If I were to travel back in time 25 years and tell all the science fiction writers alive back then that the world of the future included an expansive network of computers circumscribing the globe, I probably wouldn’t be telling them anything all that surprising. If I told them that people would have access to…
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The American Natural History Museum: Primitive Mammals
Something that always sorta blows my mind about human origins is that one of the ancient ancestors to all mammals was something like this: Edaphosaurus Boanerges You can view the complete flickr set here.
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Flash Fiction: Biobaubles
Kira was still wailing in the background when Jillian dialed the web address tattooed on the lifeless kitten’s belly. She had to talk her way past two chatbots before finally being put in touch with a human being. “Good day Jillian Dillard,” the customer service rep announced. “My agents inform me you have an inoperable…
