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The author of Skulls in the Stars is a professor of physics, specializing in optical science, at UNC Charlotte. The blog covers topics in physics and optics, the history of science, classic pulp fantasy and horror fiction, and the surprising intersections between these areas. -
Category Archives: General science
15 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #3!
Labor Day is a day for the working citizen of the U.S. to relax… but not science bloggers! This is a reminder that there’s 15 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #3, to be held at Entertaining Research. Entries can be … Continue reading
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Fossil Hunt: FAIL!!!
Well, I’m back from Chicago, and my fossil hunting expedition! My abilities to find fossils on this trip can be summarized by one word: FAIL!!! This was a field trip sponsored by the Field Museum of Chicago, a place I … Continue reading
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3 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #2!
One last reminder: there’s only 3 days left to submit to The Giant’s Shoulders #2, to be held at The Lay Scientist, so if you’ve been meaning to write a classic science post and submit it, now would be a … Continue reading
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15 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #2!
This seemed like as good a time as any to remind readers that we’re 15 days out before the deadline of The Giant’s Shoulders #2, to be held at The Lay Scientist. Entries can be submitted through blogcarnival.com, or sent … Continue reading
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Rant time: The End of Theory? (Updated)
This one’s already been passed around the blogosphere like a cheap bottle of wine, but I feel the urge to comment on it myself. A recent issue of Wired Magazine has an essay by Chris Anderson with the very provocative … Continue reading
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The Linkin’ Log: June 18, 2008
Time again for me to highlight a few interesting posts from around the sciobloggosphere: Blake at Science After Sunclipse has a nice, lengthy essay about the necessity of mathematics in science education. Tom at Swans on Tea has finished (I … Continue reading
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“The Giant’s Shoulders”: call for entries and hosts!
Note: bumped up to make sure everyone sees it! So we’ve got a weblog up for the new classic science carnival, “The Giant’s Shoulders“. The first event will be hosted by Coturnix at A Blog Around The Clock, and entries … Continue reading
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Useless scientific factoid of the day: the ‘zombie palm’
In my previous post, my friend Personal Demon asked the following question, when I referred to the ancient palm as ‘Lazarus’: or it could be a MUMMY palm tree… or a ZOMBIE palm tree… Why WHY don’t scientists ever think … Continue reading
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You-tube Generation
I like to watch you-tube videos at work, am I alone? There are so many great and not so great videos out there. I often show clips I find on-line in my classes to initiate class discussions. I had the … Continue reading
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Name the ‘carnival of the classics’!
I’ve been chatting with Coturnix over at A Blog Around The Clock about preparing a new blog carnival related to classic papers. One of the first questions that came up: what do we name this new carnival? Coturnix suggested that … Continue reading
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