Tag Archives: Science Fact

O Wad Some Pow’r the Giftie Gie Us

26th
Oct. × ’12
By Roderick

Whale imitating human speech! (CHT Jesse W.)

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Martian Street View

30th
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

See a 360° panorama of the Martian landscape here (plus more).

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If Selina Kyle and Harvey Dent Had a Child …

23rd
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

… it would probably be a human. But if it weren’t a human, it would totally look like this.

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Theory and History

14th
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

Check out this revolutionary breakthrough. (CHT Tennyson.)

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And the Bowl of Petunias Thought, “Oh No, Not Again”

4th
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

This is supposed to happen tomorrow (CHT Reed Richter): It looks a tad tricky. If it succeeds, we can go into Randian rhapsodies about the triumph of human reason. If it fails, we can go into Hayekian jeremiads about the fatal conceit of top-down planning. So it’s all good.

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Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology

19th
Jul. × ’12
By Roderick

Last night, around 2 a.m., after frustration at trying to transcribe the sometimes illegible file I’d gotten off of Google Books, I submitted an interlibrary loan request to the Auburn University library via the AU website. (They still call it interlibrary “loan” even when what’s requested is a scan or photocopy rather than a physical [...]

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