And a cheap one it is. The Camping rapture people, they’re just too easy. Now Harold Camping says that the Rapture did happen, we just didn’t notice. And the world will be ending on October 21, thank you very much. But one of the associated websites still says May 21, with a cute little count-down [...]
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Or maybe not
So yeah, I’ve spent some time the past week making fun of Camping and his rapture predictions, and linking to people who did likewise. And I’ll even continue that by linking some possible explanations for the lack of mystical occurrences. I’d especially like to make you all aware that Eric won one internet yesterday, with [...]
Scientific potato chips
From the San Francisco Chronicle: New Zealanders will be the first to know, Camping said. At 6 p.m. their time – 11 p.m. Friday in the Bay Area – a great earthquake will shake the island asunder, triggering an apocalypse that rolls relentlessly our way. “It will continue across the Earth at such a rate,” [...]
Squish squash scribble
Happy Easter, to those of you inclined that way. Crash-testing chocolate eggs! More egg science. And as if that weren’t enough, it’s time to play first lines! These are the first lines from everything in progress. All the Leaves on Mars: “Whisper-thin sheets of stainless steel piled to the ceiling, compulsively stacked, impeccably organized.” Gray [...]
Hello from rainy Portland
No, I’m not spending all my time in Powell’s. Of course I’m not. See, I even finished a new Science in My Fiction post: The Plastic Economy. I’ve also been working very hard, but today is a vacation day. Watch out Portland!
Changing the Lady
For the past two years, Ada Lovelace Day has been celebrated on March 24. If you’ve been waiting impatiently to find out which obscure scientific woman I’m going to feature in 2011, I’m afraid you have a bit of waiting to do. This year, Ada Lovelace Day will be on October 7. That gives me [...]
Squiggles!
The internet has been buzzing with news of apparent microfossils found in meteorites. The story was first publicized by Fox News, but rapidly spread across blogs and major media outlets alike. These carbonaceous chondrites, meteorites that probably once formed part of comets, were split open and examined closely. Richard B. Hoover, in a study published [...]
An era winding down
I and 120,000 other people watched online as the Discovery landed for the last time today. The shuttle program is the space program I grew up with, for better and worse. I was ten when the Columbia went up for the first time in April 1981. I sat in math class and watched the Challenger [...]
Hello March
And goodbye February. I’ve never gotten along with that month. In fact, I blame it for a lot of things. Good riddance until next year. I was moderately productive in February, in the writing department. I finished and revised two short stories, and am just waiting on my beta reader before I submit them. I [...]
Bad Project
[Ooops. I wrote this on 26 January, and apparently never hit post. Sorry! You've probably all seen the video by now.] While I’m on a science theme, here’s a new blog, Stars and Spice from a local scientist. She’s collected some excellent science videos, so now you have place to go if I don’t post [...]
