Swans on Tea

The federal government has been shut down for the last two days, which is probably a good thing — it alleviates stress on the transportation system, which is nowhere near full capacity at the moment, and I imagine there are a lot of people who would have great difficulty getting to work, especially so [...]

Last fall, someone animated the xkcd cartoon that celebrated the boom-de-yada song
Now, in a bit of life imitates art – imitates life-imitates art-imitates life, (does surreal come in layers,or are they orthogonal dimensions?) we have a collection of people of varying degrees of celebrity in the science and tech world (I recognized Bruce Schneier [...]

We might err, but science is self-correcting
An Oxford colleague, one of the world’s top climate scientists, made the same point last week when he said to me: “It’s odd that people talk about ‘climate sceptics’ as though they are a special category. All of us in the climate science community are climate sceptics. It’s our [...]

And even to the bad ones.
People in this area generally don’t know how to drive in the snow. The generally slow clearing of snowy conditions definitely does not help, but folks just aren’t helping things by sucking at driving. Between the time I was excavating my car and the recent trudge over to [...]