I love Harper’s. I suspect I’ve read every issue published since I was about fourteen. And their online presence is also pretty nice. So obviously I eventually got around to the piece this week on Justice in Alabama. It’s worth a read, if only to make you ask Mr. Young’s question “What are you doing Alabama? You got the rest… Read more →
Day: June 26, 2007
The great paperback giveaway, part 2
More boxes of books repacked, with similar results: Same rules as last time (and some of those are still available for another week as well). Whatever is not claimed by mid-July will go some other way. I’m leaning toward donating them to the hospital library at this point. Post your requests, don’t email me–that way I won’t forget what you… Read more →
Professor Membrane On: A Dead Supernova
“It’s time to move on, son! Real science… try it!” It’d dead. Dead, I tell you. Bad Astronomy drew my attention to the Eta Carinae stuff at Harvard’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory site. The Chandra site says this: Eta Carinae is a mysterious, extremely bright and unstable star located a mere stone’s throw – astronomically speaking – from Earth at a… Read more →
