Tonight I was checking my Twitter feed when I found this blog post on Nature Soapbox Science blog. Where it says that, at a Royal Institution debate about science and media One of the questions that came up was whether reporters should read the scientific papers related to the story that they are covering. Is …
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A summary of Reddit cosmology or, on the forum as a work of art
It is very probable that my readers know what Reddit is. In case instead you lived the last five years under a rock, it is basically one of the most successful forum communities on the Internet. It is a container for bazillions of subforums on every possible subject. Clicking the “random” link a few times …
We will again open this container of wisdom that has been left in our care
The proverbial sadness of the Tropics has been depicted in detail by much better people than me: yet I must echo the lament. In fact, I’ve got a bizarre fondness, recently, for the Tlingit, a population of natives of southern Alaska. They’re not Eskimo and they’re not classical American Indians either: something in between and …
Serious business, at last
It had to happen, and, if anything, what is surprising is that it took so much time. The whole point of the cables Wikileaks affair is not in the novel insights on USA politics (quite few so far), or on who controls Assange (if anyone -Putin’s declarations sound ominous however) or who really is for …