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Play Against the Physicist!

Tired of reading about science? In need of a boost to your ego? You think you are smarter than me? Can you play chess at a reasonable level? Or, do you have a chess program and you don't mind cheating? If you answered " yes " to the above q ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 16 2009 - 8:05am

Morning Science Quote

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric revels the organization of the entire tapestry.- Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, p.34 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 18 2009 - 6:00am

Morning Science Quote

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have great universities, seats of great learning where men go ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 19 2009 - 6:04am

Morning Science Quote

There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaini ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 20 2009 - 6:04am

Morning Science Quote

It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the at ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 21 2009 - 9:15pm

The Say of the Week

" I seldom enjoy competition in real life. I find it fun only when I am up against somebody who takes things more seriously than I do. " QDS ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 25 2009 - 5:56pm

Morning Science Quote

Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person's mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well.- Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner, p. 15 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 22 2009 - 6:04am

Coffee Break Science Browsing

That first early morning cup is wearing off; it's time for more coffee zen and a dose of science browsing to bring the day back into equilibrium: Who knew bugs could be beautiful? Bug Safari is one of the most enjoyable blogs in my reader. Cindy has ...

Article - Michael White - May 22 2009 - 10:00am

Morning Science Quote

The question of what the major current problems of Biology are cannot be answered, for I do not know of a single biological discipline that does not have major unsolved problems... still, the most burning and as yet most intractable problems are those tha ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 23 2009 - 6:00am

Morning Science Quote

For every complex problem, there is a simple, easy to understand, incorrect answer.- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, quoted in Robert Pennock, Tower of Babel, p. 367 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 24 2009 - 6:00am