Science. It's fun. It's complicated. It's precise. It's also often invoked in rhetoric to make things 'true', whether there is actual science going on or not. I take exception at this -- especially that the most abused facet of scientific research is most scientists' devotion to accuracy ( Read more... )

Nienna and I constructed Minas Tirith when she was here after Christmas. Fortunately, it seems that the Gondorians were able to build a Tower of Ecthelion that did not lean dangerously; we were not. It didn't fall over, mind, just leaned. It was in the living room for some time, to commemorate our triumph over the more fiendish bits of the ( Read more... )