What Did You Do Over Summer Break?
May 28Monash undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie found the universe’s missing mass during hers.
Ashes on Earth, Phoenix on Mars
May 25And still worse news: shouting huckster and semi-liberventionist Wayne A. Root is the running mate. In better news, the Phoenix has landed.
Eye in the Sky
Jan 16I know this looks like the Eye of Sauron. But it’s actually … Well, see for yourself. And then there’s this one, which looks even more like an eye (though not Sauron’s).
Girls Just Want To Have Fungi
Jun 12Definitions can be either theoretical (as when one attempts to express the essence of some already-known phenomenon) or stipulative (as when one simply lays down certain criteria for what is to count as such-and-such). Theoretical definitions have a mind-to-world direction of fit, and can be true or false; stipulative definitions have a world-to-mind direction of [...]
Cleopatra on Mars; or, Our Forgetful Experts
Mar 10[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] I remember how, when the Viking lander first began sending photos back from Mars, scientists were amazed to discover that the Martian sky is pink. Initially the sky showed as white, but the Viking project’s scientists quickly noticed that the colour of the lettering on the lander itself was off, [...]
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