Uncertain Dots 17

After a bit of a hiatus because of scheduling issues, Rhett and I are back to talk about... stuff. Mostly summer classes, World Cup soccer, and Twitter. Also, how we've each gotten a blog comment from Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Miscellaneous links:

-- My long-ago book review and Rhett's more recent complaint about Cosmos, where we each had a brush with scientific celebrity.

-- My silly cat tweet that's generated a huge amount of traffic:

-- Rhett's analysis of Twitter traffic patterns

-- Lucretius, ver. 21c, mentioned in the Twitter discussion.

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