Sunny day in the UK but I can't be oblivious to what's really happening around me: it's raining neutrinos. It's a deluge, in fact.
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As the faculty started down the steps into the area where the families and friends of the Class of 2009 were seated, somebody in the crowd yelled "Thanks for passing most of our kids!" that may be my new favorite audience comment.
Wired Magazine has published an article by Chris Anderson arguing that theory is dead (The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete).
Hooray! The land of Karl Ernst von Baer is full of skeptics and atheists!
Oh, no. The metazoan curator sent me this photo for this time around, and I groaned a bit: more big furries. I told her, "Where are the tubeworms, the crustaceans, the zooplankton? Why no jellyfish or echinoderms?" And she said, "But they're so cute!" and gave me that look.