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2012

“Moon? What Moon? Never seen it.” (c. 1804)original ↗
22 Feb 2012
Augustin-Jean Fresnel’s early yearsoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #44 — The Grand Bazaar Edition — is now up!original ↗
18 Feb 2012
What a scientist looks like! (Also on Scientific American)original ↗
18 Feb 2012
Weird science facts, February 8 — February 14original ↗
15 Feb 2012
Weird science facts, February 1 — February 7original ↗
8 Feb 2012
“The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds”, by Manly and Wade Wellmanoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2012
1813: Faraday learns about the politics of scienceoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2012
Science Online 2012: The Music Video!original ↗
2 Feb 2012
Weird science facts, January 25 — January 31original ↗
1 Feb 2012
Brian Keene’s “Earthworm Gods”original ↗
30 Jan 2012
Science Online 2012: A visit to the North Carolina Museum for Natural Sciencesoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2012
Science Online 2012: Weird and Wonderful Stories in the History of Scienceoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2012
Weird science facts, January 18 — January 24original ↗
25 Jan 2012
Weird science facts, January 11 — January 17original ↗
19 Jan 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #43 is out — People, places & things!original ↗
17 Jan 2012
François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!original ↗
17 Jan 2012
Weird science facts, January 4 — January 10original ↗
11 Jan 2012
Weird Fiction Monday: Convergenceoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2012
So, what is a “temporal cloak”, anyway?original ↗
8 Jan 2012
Weird science facts, December 28 — January 3original ↗
4 Jan 2012
A camera fast enough to watch light move?original ↗
4 Jan 2012
Weird Fiction Monday: The Brotherhood of Lightningoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2012

2011

Weird science facts, December 21 — December 27original ↗
28 Dec 2011
Todd Strasser’s “The Wave”original ↗
27 Dec 2011
A Michael Faraday Christmas: “Forces of Matter”!original ↗
25 Dec 2011
Weird science facts, December 14 — December 20original ↗
21 Dec 2011
My 1000th skydive!original ↗
21 Dec 2011
The Giant’s Shoulders #42 is out!original ↗
17 Dec 2011
Sir Edmond Halley takes a dive! (1714)original ↗
15 Dec 2011
Weird science facts, December 7 — December 13original ↗
14 Dec 2011
No “Weird Fiction Monday” this week!original ↗
13 Dec 2011
Mireya Mayor’s “Pink Boots and a Machete”original ↗
10 Dec 2011
Weird science facts, November 30 — December 6original ↗
7 Dec 2011
Open Lab 2011: the finalists announced! (and I’m one of them!)original ↗
7 Dec 2011
Weird Fiction Monday: Away From It Alloriginal ↗
6 Dec 2011
A Brief History of Stephen Hawking!original ↗
5 Dec 2011
Weird science facts, November 23 — November 29original ↗
30 Nov 2011
No “Weird Fiction Monday” this week!original ↗
29 Nov 2011
“On matter as a form of energy” (written in 1881)original ↗
27 Nov 2011
Weird science facts, November 16 — November 22original ↗
23 Nov 2011
I’m a direct academic descendant of Galileo?original ↗
22 Nov 2011
Weird Fiction Monday: The Invitationoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2011
A curious 1880s account of ball lightningoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2011
The Giant’s Shoulders #41 is out!original ↗
16 Nov 2011
Weird science facts, November 9 — November 15original ↗
16 Nov 2011
Weird Fiction Monday: The Voice of the Cityoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2011
Getting more with less in imaging: compressive sensingoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2011
In which I engage in mathematical silliness…original ↗
9 Nov 2011
Weird science facts, November 2 — November 8original ↗
9 Nov 2011
Weird Fiction Monday: The Toyboxoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2011
Help out a science/history blogger!original ↗
7 Nov 2011
Weird science facts, October 26 — November 1original ↗
2 Nov 2011
Weird Fiction Monday: They Always Preregister, and They Never Miss a Classoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2011
Richard Marsh’s Between the Dark and the Daylight (1902)original ↗
28 Oct 2011
Weird science facts, October 19 — October 25original ↗
26 Oct 2011
Halloween treats 2011original ↗
20 Oct 2011
Weird science facts, October 12 — October 18original ↗
19 Oct 2011
The Giant’s Shoulders #40 is out!original ↗
18 Oct 2011
Review of “Mathematical Methods” at Science After Sunclipse!original ↗
13 Oct 2011
Weird science facts, October 5 — October 11original ↗
12 Oct 2011
Faster than a speeding photon? Precursors test whether light can be faster than lightoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2011
9 days until the deadline for The Giant’s Shoulders #40!original ↗
6 Oct 2011
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for quasicrystals!original ↗
5 Oct 2011
Weird science facts, September 28 — October 4original ↗
5 Oct 2011
Science careers: rough today, rough in 1886original ↗
30 Sept 2011
Weird science facts, September 21 — September 27original ↗
28 Sept 2011
T.C. McCarthy’s “Germline”original ↗
27 Sept 2011
The Giant’s Shoulders #39 is out! (Part one!)original ↗
25 Sept 2011
The universe ripped me off!original ↗
23 Sept 2011
Weird science facts, September 14 — September 20original ↗
22 Sept 2011
Weird science facts, September 7 — September 13original ↗
15 Sept 2011
Two ghost stories: “The Man in the Picture” and “Isis”original ↗
10 Sept 2011
New post: Weird science facts, August 31 — September 06original ↗
7 Sept 2011
Ancient swords, modern nanotechnologyoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2011
Weird science facts, August 24 — August 30original ↗
1 Sept 2011
Mock the Movie: Mega Python vs. Gatoroid!original ↗
31 Aug 2011
August 27, 1883: The island of Krakatoa blows uporiginal ↗
28 Aug 2011
Review of my book in Optics & Photonics News!original ↗
26 Aug 2011
Weird science facts, August 17 — August 23original ↗
24 Aug 2011
Stephen McKenna’s The Oldest Godoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2011
Movie sequels that completely miss the pointoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2011
Weird science facts, August 10 — August 16original ↗
17 Aug 2011
The Giant’s Shoulders #38: A Georgian Special, is posted!original ↗
16 Aug 2011
“FOX fails physics: flaunts fool fumbling facts” on JAYFK!original ↗
15 Aug 2011
Weird science facts, August 3 — August 9original ↗
11 Aug 2011
Twitter “Mock the Movie” tonight: The Sands of Oblivion!original ↗
10 Aug 2011
Isaac Newton… Father of invisibility physics?original ↗
10 Aug 2011
6 days until the deadline for The Giant’s Shoulders #38!original ↗
9 Aug 2011
Nick Mamatas’ Sensationoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2011
Weird science facts, July 27 — August 2original ↗
3 Aug 2011
Infinity is weird… even in infinity mirrors!original ↗
30 Jul 2011
Weird science facts, July 20 — July 26original ↗
28 Jul 2011
John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worldsoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2011
Weird science facts, July 13 — July 19original ↗
20 Jul 2011
The Giant’s Shoulders #37 is out! (The Wunderkammer Edition)original ↗
16 Jul 2011
Spiders and the electric light (1887)original ↗
14 Jul 2011
Weird science facts, July 6 — July 12original ↗
14 Jul 2011
A short travel note…original ↗
11 Jul 2011
8 days until the deadline for The Giant’s Shoulders #37!original ↗
8 Jul 2011
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