Book Review: Ten Questions Science Can’t Answer (Yet) – A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness, by Michael Hanlon

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years of reading about and contributing to science, it’s the old cliche that the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. The method of science has revealed a whole lot about the universe we live in, but even the most well-established facts [...]

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Love Crime

You know those atheist bus signs in Toronto? Well it looks like someone has vandalized one of them…sorta.

Um. Maybe I’m not fully understanding the author’s intention, but the sign (er, piece of paper) they put on top of the ad really isn’t at odds with the ad. It’s a bit ambiguous, scratching [...]

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Lost:

Saw this on a post along the Thames today:

Weird/cute/sad.

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Film as Elixir

Ok so go read this review of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by critic Jordan Hiller and then come back here.
Since you totally didn’t read it, here’s a summarizing quote:
The film and those like it are merely the reflection of ageing creative people in hopeless search for an elixir.
I haven’t seen the movie, but [...]

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In the News

Today’s top story: LOLcats are awesome. Among the usual stories of politics, business, and school shootings, today’s LA Times featured an entire article about I Can Has Cheezburger, the internet’s leading provider of pictures of cats with poorly written captions. It’s actually an interesting read; I never really considered that people are making [...]

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Book Review: American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho describes a few years in the life of Patrick Bateman, a successful investor and psychopath. That’s about all there is to it.
American Psycho is not so much a story, but a drawn out snapshot of the nightmare world of yuppies in late 80s New York. This setting is [...]

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Nuking Dreams

This is from a recent issue of Science:
In 2004, a research team led by Pierre Maquet of the University of Liège, Belgium, used positron emission tomography (PET) to monitor brain activity in men playing a virtual-reality game in which they learned to navigate through a virtual town (actually a scene from the shoot-’em-up video game [...]

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Hey You Guys

On a daily basis, I find myself wondering what happened to Chunk from The Goonies. Now, I wonder no more: Chunk is all grown up and successful. And while I’m a straight male, I have a suspicion that he might even be a little bit hot.
See also: Truffleshuffle.com.

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Book Review: Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories, by Chuck Palahniuk

This is the first book that I listened to in audiobook format. That is, I downloaded an audio file of someone reading the book, and then listened to it on my iPod. I got it from Audible, which is a pretty cool site. The books are a lot cheaper than buying them physically, [...]

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New Words I Learned Today

Hyperopia: An excess of farsightedness. Most people aspire to be farsighted. It’s good to delay pleasure now so that we can be better off in the long run. But a recently published study (read about it here) interviewed people about what they regret. In the short term, people regretted partying [...]

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