Category Archives: Science Is Vital

Dogsplaining #3

Using only her eyebrows, Heidi the Golden Retriever explains the intriguing excess of high-energy neutrinos detected by the ICE CUBE neutrino detector.

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Index

The book is written, the proofs have been corrected, the date is set. Yes, The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution will be out in October, and you can, if you wish, pre-order it. But first, I have to do … Continue reading

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T*ts

There’s nothing like a picture of a comely young woman in her underwear to perk up one’s sagging spirits of an evening, but when I was alerted to the following story on the FB page of my friend Ms L. … Continue reading

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Shooting The Badger

Crox Minor, for it is she, can never resist the urge to do the Harlem Shake in public, so jumped at the chance to don a badger mask and do the aforesaid shimmy to raise awareness about the prospect of … Continue reading

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Hypocrisy (Again)

Here is a transcript of an interview with several Dutch boys. I have made a few changes for reasons that will become clear. Boy 2: I’m happy about bitches being murdered. I am being really honest. Interviewer: You are satisfied? … Continue reading

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Funding

News has reached mes oreilles of the Breakthrough Prizes in the Life Sciences, whose Foundation aims to honor five scientists annually to the tune of $3m each. This year, however, is an inaugural splurge, in which eleven laureates get to … Continue reading

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That Was The Week That Was

What a week it’s been. Honestly, if you’d have made up this week’s news, nobody would have believed you. So, what have we had? * A meteor exploded over Russia, quite close to the city of Chelyabinsk. The impactor is … Continue reading

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Cosmic

My book The Science of Middle-earth is now available for your Kindle, and given the release of Peter Jackson’s film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, I am soon going to start tolkien to myself. But before that, I should like … Continue reading

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Yet Another Mystery Thingy For You To Identify

This evening Crox Minor came home from school and turned out the contents of her pockets. Among the detritus was this object, loaned her by one of her science teachers, a Dr B. B. of Cromer. I think it’s a … Continue reading

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STEM

Over the years I’ve enthused in public about science, to various audiences. I have given seminars to graduate students and faculty about being an editor at Your Favourite Etc., and if you don’t believe me here’s the evidence. Notwithstanding inasmuch … Continue reading

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