Why did nobody ever tell me

about the white heat excitement that is being the guy who stands on stage so the people who know what they are doing can set lighting cues?

Linking is not advocacy

The earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects—for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA—are animate, that is, alive. With its broad explanatory power, applicable to all areas of science and medicine, this novel paradigm aims to catalyze a veritable renaissance.

Sad duty

Heard a bunch of high schoolers being grossed out over something in the road. Turned to be a squirrel, which the kids seemed to think might still be alive. This was not the case; they were fooled, I think, by the wind ruffling its fur. For what it's worth, it was probably pretty fast for the squirrel. Someone had to deal with it and since they didn't seem inclined to and didn't have the right tools, I did.

(No idea what I would have done had it been injured but alive. Pretty the animal control people just put injured wild animals down)

I didn't do anything about the large pool of blood but I am sure there is no way an unexplained large pool of blood in the road could lead to misundertandings.

NASA's Kepler Announces 11 New Planetary Systems

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known to have more than one planet that transits, or passes in front of, the star. Such systems will help astronomers better understand how planets form.

doc_lemming's Crackpot Engineers

So for whatever reason, I was thinking about crackpots on the bus this morning and why engineers seem so prone to it. (James Nicoll has repeatedly said so on his LJ.) But I think that there's a selection bias: we notice the engineers more because they fit the criteria so well.

Did not fry my eyeballs last night

I did get exposed to something that's triggered a major asthma attack and didn't recognize what was going on in time prevent it by taking an anti-histamine. Since I started feeling sick right after I walked across campus last week, I am guessing it was whatever I reacted to over in Physics.

I sound like a barking seal.

A poll

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A poll

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I wasn't looking at the same part of the map Neil deGrasse Tyson is inexplicably obsessed with

Also, really area to papers published is the wrong thing to struck by. It should be population to papers published.