the obligations of science.

Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics (author of The God Particle)
“I have always believed that the scientist’s most sacred obligation is to continue to do science. Now I know that I was dead wrong. I am driven to the ultimately wise advice of my Columbia mentor, I.I. Rabi, who, in our many corridor bull sessions, [...]

Decoding the Human Social Genome

In “The Selfish Gene” evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins lays out the groundwork for what has become known as Memetics. Dawkins’ “meme,” a mixture of the words “gene” and “mime,” describes the function of ideas and how they are shared in human society. The “gene” part of the word “meme” makes the assumption that ideas propagate [...]

analemma

ill legislate some sin all over your ass.

Conversations with History

Hey look at this.

mad nomad science

What We Need More of is Science

heisenberg’s uncertainty or a physicists love story

once
  i told you we’d
      catch black holes
   with butterfly nets
  composed of anti
                  matter
           seal them in canopic
        jars and watch the
      world
           implode

smiling
  you asked me
     how i got the camel
    through the eye of the
    needle
   did i re-enact
         a tesseract?
my reponse:
  when you stole my electron
     initiating this unstable
                         isotope
quietly
   she says
     but ours is a covalent
                           bond
    we merely share our energies
           in a mutual attraction
               the probability of which
            is
              astronomical
                          in
                            the
                                least

she tells me:
  there is something [...]