links for 2008-04-02

"The exception, of course, is if you're doing something truly hysterical or on a magnificent scale. But I fear we won't run into too many of those."

"In a paper published last year, three psychologists argued that the sensation of being duped -- anger, self-blame, bitterness -- was such a singular cocktail that it forced an uncomfortable kind of self-awareness. How much of a dupe am I? Where are my

"The Archimedes team studies the history of mechanics, how people thought about simple machines like the lever, the wheel and axle, the balance, the pulley, the wedge and the screw and how they turned their thoughts into theories and principles."

Woo-hoo!

"BBC1 viewers will see the penguins not only take flight from the Antarctic wastes, but fly thousands of miles to the Amazonian rainforest to find winter sun."

"On a whim I drew up a piece last week asking the question "What if Charles Schulz created the Watchmen?" "

They will undoubtedly prove to completely confound current models of planet formation.