What an absolutely beautiful fish.
From Galactic Interactions: Gravity as the curvature of spacetime— it’s such a simple, elegant, beautiful concept that it almost pains me to think that efforts to unify gravity with quantum mechanics may result in our learning that General Relativity is just the effective limit of a deeper theory (much as Newton’s gravity is an effective limit of GR).
(I hope to actually finish my copy of Kip Thorne’s “Gravitation” before I die. I may have to live a long time.)
The Head Lemur’s Ning–the Latest Sharecropping Network, Part 1 and Part 2. Zing!
Via 3Quarks Daily, Marvin Minsky writes on Love. As always, a unique perspective from one of the premier AI scientists.
RDF and microformats rumble: post here, then comment, with follow up and referee. Why does all technology have to break along adversarial lines in weblogging? Probably needs more women.
Speaking of…Dori Smith: This is about claims that I “simply don’t exist.” This is about claims Shelley doesn’t exist. This is about claims that people like Molly don’t exist — ’cause nobody, but nobody could know that we exist, talk to any of us for five minutes, and still say that. Being as we three are the shy and retiring type.
Oop! Oop! No more of that. This year’s Diversity Steeple Chase and companion, Wondering where are the broads is over. Stay tuned, next year: same time, different channel.
via onegoodmove, Why I refuse to blog for Edwards: “So, it’s not a problem that I’m an outspoken atheist?” I asked.
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. Let’s spend more time on congressional resolutions on Iraq that don’t do anything–and more billions in Iraq so kids like Deamonte can die.
It’s spring in California. Speaking of which, we’re expecting our first spring storm tonight or tomorrow, if it doesn’t float north of us.
Bill has loaded his first spring photo.
Come midnight, it will surely sound like spring.
To all my fellow Missourians: Be safe.