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2013

How to become invisible by “hiding under the carpet”original ↗
3 Mar 2013
John Blackburn’s “Bury Him Darkly” and “Broken Boy”original ↗
23 Feb 2013
The Giant’s Shoulders #56 is out!original ↗
17 Feb 2013
The mirror that (didn’t really) make it rain! (1713)original ↗
15 Feb 2013
Phantasmagoria: How Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified Paris for scienceoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2013
His Wisdom The Defender: A Story, by Simon Newcomb (1900)original ↗
9 Feb 2013
A(nother) visit to the Duke Lemur Center!original ↗
4 Feb 2013
Artologica at ScienceOnline (and online)!original ↗
1 Feb 2013
The Thing From the Lake, by Eleanor Ingram (1921)original ↗
25 Jan 2013
The Resurrection Men: when people would kill to get into cemeteriesoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2013
The Giant’s Shoulders #55: Curiosities, Utility and Authority, is out!original ↗
18 Jan 2013
Richard Sala’s The Hiddenoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2013
Optical wormholes: punching virtual tunnels in space via metamaterials!original ↗
14 Jan 2013
Richard Sala’s Delphineoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2013
Illusion optics: the physics of making things look like other things!original ↗
3 Jan 2013

2012

Barry Pain’s “The Undying Thing and Others”original ↗
19 Dec 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #54, a sleigh-load of history, is out!original ↗
16 Dec 2012
Duel in the clouds — the world’s first air combat in 1870?original ↗
13 Dec 2012
Light “tying itself in knots,” at Aeon Magazineoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2012
The balloon ride of death (1875)original ↗
11 Dec 2012
RIP Milooriginal ↗
10 Dec 2012
Weird science facts: October — December 2012original ↗
8 Dec 2012
George Soane’s “The Stranger Knight” (1812-14)original ↗
5 Dec 2012
2012 Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, from the streetoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2012
Priestley’s account of Franklin’s historic kite flight (1767)original ↗
28 Nov 2012
More on Franklin and the electrical kite (1752)original ↗
27 Nov 2012
A Tiny update!original ↗
21 Nov 2012
Valancourt Books’ “Terrifying Transformations”original ↗
17 Nov 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #53 is out!original ↗
16 Nov 2012
Invention of the “perfect” invisibility cloak?original ↗
13 Nov 2012
Foster kitty Tiny!original ↗
11 Nov 2012
E.R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroborosoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2012
“Are beech-trees ever struck by lightning?” (1889)original ↗
4 Nov 2012
Weird Fiction Monday: The Wormoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2012
Halloween treats 2012 (Updated!)original ↗
27 Oct 2012
Invaders from Mars! Reports from the 1938 invasionoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #52 — “Loads more heroes edition” — is out!original ↗
20 Oct 2012
Introducing the “Science Chamber of Horrors”!original ↗
5 Oct 2012
Best Science Writing Online 2012 is out!original ↗
3 Oct 2012
Bram Stoker’s The Lair of the White Wormoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2012
Making magnets speak: the Barkhausen effectoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2012
Weird Fiction Monday: A Vignetteoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2012
“Hairy balls” in optics?original ↗
23 Sept 2012
Bram Stoker’s “The Jewel of Seven Stars”original ↗
20 Sept 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #51 is out! Tales of Patriotic Science-Nerds, Vortex Cannons and Nuking the Goatoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2012
How many uses for a nuclear weapon can YOU think of?original ↗
17 Sept 2012
Relativity: Ten minutes to Alpha Centauri?original ↗
10 Sept 2012
Weird science facts: July — August 2012original ↗
7 Sept 2012
Physics demonstrations: vortex cannon!original ↗
29 Aug 2012
Dennis Wheatley’s To the Devil a Daughteroriginal ↗
20 Aug 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders: The Fiftieth Anniversary edition is out!original ↗
16 Aug 2012
My 5-year blogiversary!original ↗
14 Aug 2012
What’s the difference between “transparency” and “invisibility”?original ↗
8 Aug 2012
Philip Wylie’s The Murderer Invisibleoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #49: “Crisis what crisis?” edition is out!original ↗
31 Jul 2012
Wackerbarth whacks Piazzi’s pyramid power! (1867)original ↗
30 Jul 2012
A. Merritt’s Seven Footprints to Satanoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2012
Optics basics: refractionoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2012
Weird Fiction Monday: Mass Effect: Apocalypseoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2012
My own little “Higgs”-related storyoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #48 is out!original ↗
25 Jun 2012
An American in Spain, part 8: Granada and the Alhambraoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2012
How well can the government spy on us via satellite?original ↗
14 Jun 2012
Skydives at CarolinaFest 2012!original ↗
10 Jun 2012
Laird Barron’s The Croningoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2012
Weird science facts: April — May 2012original ↗
1 Jun 2012
Physics demonstrations: rolling uphilloriginal ↗
25 May 2012
Philip Wylie’s Gladiator (1930)original ↗
24 May 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #47 is up at The Medical Heritage Library!original ↗
23 May 2012
Personal book page for “Mathematical Methods”original ↗
20 May 2012
An American in Spain, part 7: the Plaza de España, Sevilleoriginal ↗
17 May 2012
The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913)original ↗
16 May 2012
Physics demonstrations: Magdeburg hemispheresoriginal ↗
8 May 2012
An American in Spain, part 6: Real Alcázar of Sevilleoriginal ↗
7 May 2012
Coherence, plasmons, and me!original ↗
4 May 2012
“Arago’s inadvertent test of relativity” in Optics & Photonics News!original ↗
1 May 2012
T.C. McCarthy’s “Exogene”original ↗
28 Apr 2012
Physics demonstrations: the Pythagoras cuporiginal ↗
26 Apr 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #46 is out!original ↗
23 Apr 2012
An American in Spain, part 5: Seville Cathedraloriginal ↗
22 Apr 2012
“Mathematical Methods” on sale for $62 at Cambridge!original ↗
21 Apr 2012
The Moon-Maker, by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Woodoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2012
An American in Spain, part 4: Onward to Sevilleoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2012
An American in Spain, part 3: Palaces and parks in Madridoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2012
An American in Spain, part 2: Art and Egypt in Madridoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2012
An American in Spain, part 1: Madridoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2012
John Derbyshire: wrong even 176 years agooriginal ↗
9 Apr 2012
Asamatsu Ken’s Queen of K’n-Yanoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2012
Weird science facts: “Why am I still doing this?” editionoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2012
Caitlin R. Kiernan’s The Drowning Girloriginal ↗
23 Mar 2012
Weird science facts — the final (regular) edition!original ↗
21 Mar 2012
The Giant’s Shoulders #45original ↗
17 Mar 2012
Weird science facts, March 7 — March 13original ↗
14 Mar 2012
Richard Marsh’s The Complete Adventures of Judith Leeoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2012
Weird science facts, February 29 — March 6original ↗
7 Mar 2012
1901 — the year the nuclear atom was “invented”!original ↗
7 Mar 2012
Weird science facts, February 22 — February 28original ↗
29 Feb 2012
One of my papers is top-ten cited in JOSA A!!??original ↗
28 Feb 2012
Pauli, “armchair physicists”, and “not even wrong”original ↗
26 Feb 2012
Weird science facts, February 15 — February 21original ↗
22 Feb 2012
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