Click on the image to see it full size. I’m working on a new theme for the blog so that I can include larger format images. It might take some time. This is pretty much exactly what would happen if William Shatner came ’round to tea at the Prime residence. So I realized today that [...]
I imagine the recent negotiations to have gone something like this. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I like to imagine that Uncle Bill threatened Kim Jong Il with a Roman spatha. I for one am glad that Bill Clinton gets a little attention. He gets to be the goddamned hero for [...]
A month or so ago, I talked a little bit about this new element. Well, they’ve finally settled on a name for it. I must say I’m a little disappointed in Professor Hofmann. I know as well as the next guy the contribution that Copernicus made to science and, more importantly, the importance of questioning [...]
My favorite part about science is the fact that so much of it is, in essence, just for fun. The problem for grant writers must be spinning it so that it sounds like there’s a practical “use-value” for research. One of the first posts for this blog was about a scene from Also Sprach Zarathustra. [...]
Phlogiston Theory was an attempt, in the 17th century to rectify a problem in the practice of alchemy. You see, the Greeks believed that there were four elements in nature: earth, air, fire, and water. But when all you have is these four elements and everything in nature is comprised of only these four substances, [...]
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