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Today is officially the last day of my appointment at Cal, although I'm around for a few more weeks. I'm still somewhat in denial of...

Everyone knows that Teen Talk Barbie never said, "Math is hard; let's go shopping!" It caught on nonetheless; there was somet...

This cartoon from Abstruse Goose needs to be in every freshman handbook. Via Lisa Wade at Sociological Images .

So... who exactly are all these people who worship social media uncritically? Thank goodness Bill Keller is here to save us from them. [ ...

I'm just going to throw this out there for no good reason. It bugs me that the whole entire internet seems not to have identified the br...

A few links on HPS, publicness, public knowledge, etc., etc.: A charming rant by Dominic Berry on " HPS on't telly ": It loo...

I love these instances of poetry in the wild—moments when you see poetry being deployed to unlikely ends, or when you see the general public...

I spent a week fiddling with the back end of Arcade, and all I have to show for it is a blog post .

“And what a quantity of animal beings there are in the being of a man!”      — Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space My essay " Sent...

My "Facebook is ridiculous" post of yore can never match the gloriousness of this rant . Via Aaron .

A link this morning: Alice Bell on why calling for "scientific literacy" doesn't make sense . This is apropos of her observa...

We should really declare a moratorium on calling things "labs" willy-nilly. Y'all know who you are.