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Entries Tagged as 'Science!'
She Blinded Me With History
January 25th, 2010 · 17 Comments
Tags: Favorites · History@Play · Science!
Demon Haunted
October 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments
Richard Lewontin on Carl Sagan and how to think about pseudoscience.
The Dead Hand
September 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
P.D. Smith on the USSR’s (still operational?!?) doomsday device.
Tags: Asides · Russia is Neat · Science!
The Financephalograph
June 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
Your war bonds at work: Brett Holman at Airminded follows up my link to MONIAC with more history, smart analysis, and lots of pictures.
The Telectroscope
June 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
It’s no giant mechanical elephant (what is?), but, yes, the telectroscope is wicked boss keen. Once again, I live in the wrong London.
The Social Networks of Squirrels
May 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This article’s almost a parody of popular science journalism (the squirrel Kevin Bacon! the squirrel Facebook!) but how can you not love a study of networking squirrels?
Tags: Asides · Science! · Squirrels
MONIAC
May 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A hydraulic analog computer built in 1949 (from scrounged Lancaster bomber parts) that represents the British economy using gauges, sluices, colored water, and felt tip pens. (Thanks, Jere!)
Strange Love
May 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
P.D. Smith, author of Doomsday Men, on mad scientists and the dream of the superweapon.
Tags: Asides · Cranks · Science!
No Volcanoes?
February 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Get out your bristol board and rubber cement: it’s time for the school science fair.