Well, I've certainly been out of communication for a while, haven't I? There is so much--so SO much--and I think it might take a while to get anywhere with it. Here are some basics ( Read more... )

The science of thinking about the universe (Does Time Run Backwards In Other Universes?) really trips me out. Reading articles like that and thinking about the fact that we are even capable of and interested in thinking and reading about such things is a profoundly strange experience for me ( Read more... )

1. Male and female bodies in the Marvel Universe

2. Humans might have an innate mathematical instinct

3. A little bit masturbatory (what would cosmology be like if people like us lived long after humans will most likely survive?!) but still interesting: The End of Cosmology?

4. Hamlet - The Text Adventure

You want music? Here you go.

and now, a day (today) in my life!

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I have so totally busy and going crazy with the stress of not getting everything done. There is not enough time for everything that needs to be done. These things include: emailing potential grad school advisors, paying my rent (surprisingly difficult to do!), going to a post office (I owe someone a check, have a mix CD ready for Julie that I need ( Read more... )

SO COOL.

I love that my job involves me walking out into a dark field (oh, the stars!) at 3 am on a Friday night, wearing a headlamp filtered with a green lighting gel and carrying a large container full of hissing liquid nitrogen in one hand and a basket with forceps, a surgical scalpel, and little tubes full of shotgun shot in the other ( Read more... )

Oh, it is so beautiful outside and I am stuck in my lab until 6pm or so. On the plus side, I have good music and big windows. Come visit me in Bio 238 if you want, and I'll show you some Real Science (tm)! I'm playing with things like liquid nitrogen and vortexers and dry ice today.

Oh wow I love my dinosaur class. Tonight's discussion, around an over-crowded table, was lively and thought-provoking and just really really cool. Everyone had something interesting to say. We passed around vertebrate skulls and talked about bones and muscles and birds and dinosaurs and flight and so much more. Just wow ( Read more... )

Turtles are so cool.