Even Yet Another (Yep, One More) List
This time <I>Science News</I>' late-summer science reading list. Lots of good stuff here, and, other than <I>Blink</I> and <I>The Wisdom of Crowds</I>, I haven't even heard of any of them.
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A Powder Dusting of Audio Interest
<i>Your <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/080806expert/">enthusiastic response</a> has inspired Kristina to come out of blog-retirement. She could only stay away for an evening. Ladies and gentlemen, it seems she may be hooked. Any suggestions for an amp and CD player?<br></i>
–SM
The Time Fountain
My buddy Jeff Wong sent this little video along and I initially resisted posting it, primarily because I used to work in a light show that featured strobe light effects (ah, the '60s, I'm told I enjoyed them). We used to create lots of chaos with unsynchronized strobes moving in different planes, so I was blasé about <I>The Time Fountain</I>'s reversing time schtick.
Forget Fi
<I>Good Math, Bad Math</I> says phi is more fun. After all, "if you write φ as a continued fraction, it's [1;1,1,1,1...]; and if you write it as a continued square root, it's 1 + sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1...))))."
Watch Malaria At Work
I'm fascinated by how tiny little things affect world history—take the malaria parasite for instance. Forget the Black Death or the Influenza outbreak of 1917, Malaria has had a bigger impact on humanity than any other rampaging pathogen—yet, we still don't completely understand how it works.
Napoleonic Satires
As a fan of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin romances and Bernard Cornwell's <I>Sharpe's Rifles</I> novels, I'm a sucker for this type of collection.
Expert Opinion
<i>In her final blog entry, Kristina asks for your expert opinion. The girl needs a new pair of speakers. I think she's looking for something "wicked cute," as they say in Boston.</i><br>
–SM
Star Trek Inspirational Posters
Need I say more? And, unlike many parodies, these are ha-ha funny, not simply funny strange.
Nobody Knows You Are a Dog
Hilarious send-up of Internet advice columns: An "expert" advises great photographers on how to improve their iconic images.
The Book on the Peloponnesian War You'll Want to Read
If you're like me, it might seem in retrospect that you spent longer laboring over Thucydides than it took Athens and Sparta to fight the dang thing.