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 Okay, I know I'm reposting from facebook, but I don't care:

You know how they add a bittering agent to canned air so kids don't huff it and kill themselves? If you use it to clean out your keyboard, you get to find out how often you unconsciously touch your lips. Also, it doesn't seem to wash off. Or maybe it does and then I touch my lips again. ( Read more... )

So a certain friend recently relocated to Berlin has recently complained that, contrary to my blog name, I shut up far too often lately. I blame Facebook. It's just ridiculously easy to go there and type in a short soundbyte about the state of the Maya. And then once you've satisfied your narcissism, it seems sort of redundant to go back and do it ( Read more... )

Well well, it seems our Mr. Pratchett was correct:

"WHAT does a biblical saying about a camel passing through the eye of a needle have to do with quantum uncertainty? Quite a lot, it turns out, since a mathematical concept called the "symplectic camel" promises to explain quantum uncertainty in simple classical terms."

From Pyramids:
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