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Apres un long silence

Apres un long silence Apres un long silence, dont je ne chercherai pas a m'excuser, j'ai le plaisir de vous communiquer... After a long silence, for which I will not try to apologize, I am pleased to inform you... On the Electricity excited by t ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 21 2013 - 7:49am

FBI Releases Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Pix- Website Crashes

FBI Releases Images of Two Suspects The FBI today released images of two males suspected of planting the Boston Marathon bombs. Shortly afterwards the FBI website crashed, no doubt due to demand for these images. As a public service I am posting the image ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 18 2013 - 5:54pm

Why Science Needs Pete Williams

Why Science Needs Pete Williams Way To Go Pete! Pete "I dont want to be trending" Williams is currently trending worldwide on Twitter despite having tweeted very few times. The reason? He has proven to be very accurate in his reports on the Bost ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 21 2013 - 8:07am

Content Is King

Content Is King Whether writing or making videos, create content that will appeal to your chosen demographic and then make it fun.  Even better: present it in Dave's unique non-scripted overly enthusiastic style! David L. Jones- inventor of the beesd ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 27 2013 - 5:19pm

Love: An Almost Scientific Investigation

Love: An Almost Scientific Investigation What Is Love? If I could answer that long-standing question in precise scientific terms with error bars I would be sure to get a Nobel prize and lynched. ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 29 2013 - 8:49pm

Your Move

Last weekend I participated in a chess tournament in Mogliano. This year the event was not as strong a tournament as this used to be- only 24 players, two of them international masters.  Anyway there was room for fun, since the time control was of 90 minut ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 2 2013 - 6:36am

Music is Power

In light of some recent posts that have introduced an increasingly diverse set of viewpoint through music links, I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of music surfaces.  So, I don't have any specific criteria, except that whatever song y ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - May 3 2013 - 9:52pm

Another Media Rant

With the recent rescue of three young women in Cleveland, held for over a decade by a kidnapper, we are now subject to the useless speculations of the media. Why the news media feels compelled to ask inane questions and foment greater misunderstandings isn ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - May 8 2013 - 8:02pm

Hopefully You Will Get Smarter

Hopefully You Will Get Smarter Despite the wide use of sentences beginning with a word ending in-ly  and despite the acceptance of such usage by people who know how language is used in the real world: despite these facts there are still some people who th ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 10 2013 - 10:25am

A Tribute To Richard Feynman: Feynman Point Pilish Poems 2013

Richard Feynman was born on 11 May 1918. Today would have been his 95th birthday. This isn’t a paean to a physicist – it could be, but I’m sure millions of words have been published on this – but a game for wordsmiths and numberphiles. Within the highly re ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Oct 27 2013 - 7:36am