Links for you. Science:
Gender and blogging (and everything else)
Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution Is Vindicated
Of course scientists can communicate
Send in the Creationist Clowns and Watch Science Education Suffer
Why University Scientists Do Not Discuss Religion
Other:
Hey You Men Who Yell "Nice Tits": STFU
Is President Obama Playing Peter Peterson's Budget Game?
When Big is FAIL
Setting new records in the art of callousness towards women (I can't stand these guys)
Boston: Then and now
Write A Negative Story About The NRA, Get Racist Hate Mail
More like this
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss,
poems that take a thousand years to die
but ape the immortality of this
red label on a little butterfly.
Gratifyingly, my post on Nabokov and Gould has generated interesting feedback, including this
Nabokov always said that the only thing he enjoyed more than writing novels and solving chess puzzles was studying butterflies. As he notes in Strong Opinions: