Amusing &Science Eugene Fischer | 29 Dec 2010
There is a group in England called the Sense About Science campaign, and they’ve been turning a skeptical eye on some of the more outrageous health and wellness claims made by celebrities. Buried in the article I read about their project is this absolute gem: One of the highlights for SAS was a tip from [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 26 Dec 2010
As my Asus Eee netbook committed the kind of suicide that fills the room with the smell of burning plastic, I’ve switched to an 11-inch MacBook Air for on-the-go computing. My background on the Asus was an image from Shaun Tan’s Tales Of Outer Suburbia, made available by Tor.com when he was nominated for the Best [...]
News &Writing Eugene Fischer | 26 Dec 2010
Today NPR’s program On The Media featured a fascinating discussion with Lawrence Weschler on the topic of the inherent fictitious aspects of journalism and nonfiction. Weschler proposes a nuanced view of what constitutes truth in journalism and nonfiction, but more interesting to me is his implicit identification of the responsibilities of a reader. Weschler says [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 24 Dec 2010
I woke up to discover a brutal scene in my dining room. Only two days after I acquired my 11″ MacBook Air, it has eliminated all possible threats to its power by savaging the only other ultraportable laptop in the apartment. The smaller, plastic-bodied Asus Eee 1000HE — already weakened by a year of battering [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 15 Dec 2010
On Twitter, Annalee Newitz draws attention to “one of the most heinous things I have ever read.” It’s a paper by a Dr. Rhawn Joseph, printed in the fringe publication “Journal of Cosmology.” The paper is ostensibly about sex in space, but is really about safe handling of the Dangerous Human Sex Object, with its fragile internal [...]
