Amusing &Art &Basketball &Blog &News &Video Eugene Fischer | 02 Jul 2011
On Robert Krulwich’s NPR blog, a post about the shape of stories as drawn by Kurt Vonnegut. Includes one of my favorite science cartoons ever. The Genderfloomp Reading List. I won a copy of Whipping Girl as my prize for being Best Dressed. I’ve only read the introduction so far, but it looks very good. [...]
Amusing &Video Eugene Fischer | 28 Jan 2011
And I don’t care. It’s supposedly the intro to a Russian knockoff of MST3K, and I love it unreservedly.
Video Eugene Fischer | 24 Jan 2011
Director Terri Timely’s short film of blurred sensory boundaries.
Blog &Video Eugene Fischer | 18 Jan 2011
Work is consuming my days and rehearsal for the sketch show I’m going to be in come February is consuming my nights, leaving me largely offline. To kill some time, please enjoy a favorite cartoon from my childhood, “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics.” It’s a collaboration between Chuck Jones (of [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 13 Jan 2011
Cristóbal Vila (www.etereaestudios.com) has created a gorgeous short film exploring natural structures that exhibit the golden ratio.
Video Eugene Fischer | 07 Jan 2011
Years after I first saw it, this is probably still my favorite TED talk.
Tech &Video Eugene Fischer | 02 Oct 2010
It’s only a matter of time before we have something like this.
Blog &News &Video Eugene Fischer | 10 Aug 2010
Here’s a roundup of some things that are worthy of note. • The very best thing to happen recently is Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, overturning prop 8 and granting homosexuals the right to marry in California. The whole decision can be downloaded here, but there are articles all over the place [...]
Physics &Science &Video Eugene Fischer | 21 Jul 2010
Inspired by a conversation with a friend, and my growing interest in Erik Verlinde’s entropic construction of gravity, here is a video of Raphael Bousso of UC Berkeley giving a fairly non-technical lecture explaining the holographic principle. Dr. Bousso does a good job of building up to concepts like Planck length and Schwarzschild radius (a [...]
SF/F &Video Eugene Fischer | 04 Jun 2010
I’ve been in blog hibernation for a while, and it may continue a while longer, but this meme caused me to stir–if for no other reason than because I want this list of writers in a place I can easily find it. First, the wonderful 3 minute video that inspired it: Then the meme: Bold [...]
