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in which there are too many circles
Science yearly gives out awards for the best science images and visualizations. Here is one of this year's runners up:
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Nutmeg, accidental miracles, and the stories not taken
insomniac_tales says:
I'd like to read about your writing process. I get to read a lot of the finished products, but I'd like to know what goes into creating them (the strange little details: do you research or do you use things you already know about?). When do you usually write? Pen and paper or keyboard (or both)? And any other little thing you can think of ( Read more... ) -
hawaii, again
Hawaii is what you'd get if some far-future historian read a bunch of livejournal posts written by Americans and decided to try and reconstruct this "America" place. He gets the general shapes of things right, but the details are very wrong. Right melody, wrong words ( Read more... ) -
Oh, I guess I should mention this at some point
So ages ago, caladri and I applied for a spot on the Mongol Rally. The general idea there is 'start in London, get a car, drive to Mongolia, raise money for some useful cause or another ( Read more... ) -
shadow of a city
There's another city here, a ghost thing laid over New Orleans like fog and carnival ( Read more... ) -
in which there is fire!
Five minutes before the housewarming, it was an unmitigated disaster. We had trouble getting the regulator on our last-minute oxygen tank, cooking half the food we wanted to, the firebrick for the furnace had cracked, the copper ore was lost in the mail, the interplanetary magnetic field chose to deny us the auroras we'd been hoping to show our ( Read more... ) -
In which the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a domecile are to be increased
flata and I need to warm our (Seattle) house! Please come help us make glass beads, cook in the fireplace, make pyrex shot glasses, play with naphtha, make s'mores, (and possibly smelt copper or sinter silver, depending on interest - there are only two of us, and we do want some social time), bake fall foods, drink cider, and generally be exothermic ( Read more... ) -
Anecdotal Evidence Theater, Essay Version
There have been three interesting public posts on my friends list about synaesthesia of late. ( 1, 2, 3), plus two interesting friends-locked ones. Far be it from me to do anything other than mindlessly follow the cool kids!
I think "synaesthesia" as the official medical definition goes is reasonably uncommon, but most people I've talked to have ( Read more... )
