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Oh, Anyway, It’s Looking Like A Beautiful Day

One of my favourite pastimes of late has been taunting my local physicist friends: “Oh, I cannot make plans later than Wednesday morning because we are all going to die” or “I’m really looking forward to this event horizon thing”. Their facial expressions have been priceless, I tell you. Usually I mostly get affronted linguists [...]

Posted 10 September 2008 † Karie § Music ‡ Comments (0)

“Antimatter’s Sort Of Matter’s Evil Twin..”

Via my Other Half, I bring you The Large Hadron Rap. Yes, the wacky nice physicists at the CERN project have written a rap which explains what exactly it is that the Large Hadron Collider does.
I tell you, physicists rock. And throw some ace moves too.

Posted 03 September 2008 † Karie § Music ‡ Comments (2)

From the Guardian

A few days after the initial memory loss, I went to my doctor. He told me I had transient global amnesia, brought on by a combination of events. Just before I lost my memory, I was extremely stressed. I was anxious about my third-year exams. I had also just split up with a boyfriend, and [...]

Posted 24 August 2008 † Karie § ‡ Comments (0)

Why We Know Very Little

This is interesting: Noam Chomsky on the human brain. A short, sweet video from New Scientist. They have an entire section devoted to neuroscience but it is open to subscribers only. Oh well.

Posted 05 August 2008 † Karie § Philosophy ‡ Comments (1)