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Category: Items of Interest
The “No Black Box” Podcast: You vill listen and you vill like
If you are not listening to the Omega Tau podcast, what are you doing? Omega Tau covers über-cool science and technology topics like fusion reactors, flight simulators, and deep wreck diving. Unlike other science and technology shows, like the excellent NPR Science Friday, Markus Voelter and Nora Ludewig are willing to spend as much time as it takes to ask all the detailed, dorky questions that we want to know the answers to. They keep asking questions until they find out how things really work. I like to think of it as the “No Black Box” Podcast. Based in the Stuttgart, Germany area, Markus and Nora amazingly produce both German and English podcasts, making me wish I could speak either language fluently.
Omega Tau is available via iTunes and you can follow the podcast on Twitter or “like” them on Facebook.
The Word You are Looking for is “Exodus”
The depletion of writing talent over at ScienceBlogs may be the end of the world. I would not know and do not particularly care. The times, they are a changing. What gets me, and I’ll admit this is pedantic, is the use of inappropriately dramatic language to describe what is, really, a relatively minor event. The event is now known as The ScienceBlogs DiasporaTM. Continue reading “The Word You are Looking for is “Exodus””
Set Theory
That should have been the title.
A Stormo is Brewing
It’s not often that a fellow alum of Washington University School of Medicine (in The Lou) gets featured on Boing Boing, but, as you might expect, I’m not really all that rah-rah, school spirity. When said fellow alum, however, has some significant overlap with the rugbyologist clan and highlights it with some top-shelf LEGO creations (including a secret code), well that deserves some attention. Said fellow alum, is LEGO savant Nannan Z., who is featured about every other minute on The Brothers Brick, created personalized works to give to some of the important people from his experience at WashU. Let’s take a look whilst I drop a little local knowledge on y’all. Continue reading “A Stormo is Brewing”
The Finch and Pea 