Web gems have been sent my way.
- ASPEX, makers of scanning electron microscopes, offer to scan your sample for free and post the image on their site. Finally you can learn about the micro-structure of your tear-duct sleep gunk!
- Pablo Zalama Torres makes lovely replicas of archaeological pottery.
- An amateur volunteering for the Stardust @ Home project has probably discovered "the first known sample of matter ever collected from the local interstellar medium". Space dust!
- James Randi has come out of the closet. Congratulations, Randi! Your houdinesque escape will make it easier for other gay skeptics in the future.
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Yesterday, I wrote one of my typical Orac-ian length posts that was unusual. What was unusual about it was not its length.
I don't usually announce these sorts of things on the blog, but since Randy is a long-time friend, colleague and fellow Habs fan, I just had to make an exception.
Yesterday, James Randi put up a blog post in which he questioned the validity of anthropogenic global warming.