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Syria 24 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
The list is enough in itself Men lying allegedly suffocated Boy foaming at the mouth Man convulsing on ground in hospital Boy and girl with blue lips and nose bleed Video of individuals convulsin...
Sandpiper 15 Jul 2013 | 01:02 pm
Every few months, it seems, I stumble across yet another superb poem by Elizabeth Bishop that I had not read before. Here, via Brandon Keim's essay on animal consciousness, is Sandpiper The roaring a...
Helicos-pteron 13 Jul 2013 | 01:26 am
A striking short film of a human powered helicopter has been posted by AeroVelo I touched on the history of the helicopter in a much longer early draft of the Quetzalcoatlus chapter for The Book of B...
Cooking 2 Jul 2013 | 12:58 am
Page 375 of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings touches very briefly on the extraordinary complexity of cells and cellular process. In a post titled Organized Chaos Brandon Keim writes (in a footnote):...
"Memory can go further back..." 28 Jun 2013 | 11:13 am
I think the memory of most of us can go farther back into such times than many of us suppose; just as I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its...
Exterminate the brutes 27 Jun 2013 | 02:16 pm
The reviews for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings have been good (see, for example, here and here). The book has been longlisted for the Royal Society science book prize and the Society of Authors B...
Ignorance, confidence, knowledge 24 Jun 2013 | 09:48 pm
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by scienc...
Etymology and emotion 19 Jun 2013 | 01:01 am
Words describing emotions appear to evolve either from words describing physical phenomena associated with the emotion or from the thing that inspires the emotion. Regret literally means “to weep agai...
The utopian goal of totalitarian secret police 19 Jun 2013 | 12:58 am
The modern dream of the totalitarian police, with its modern techniques, is incomparably more terrible [than that of its predecessors]. Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the ...
The sea mysteries 15 Jun 2013 | 03:15 pm
Like an oyster hides its pearl, The sea hides its wonder world. Like a mermaid flicks her tail, The sea is real and surreal. Like the heart of the angler fish, The sea's heart beats in the dead of n...
