Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
If you’re a follower of the Cephalopodcast, you’d know that Cephalopod Awareness Days are held from October 8-10, 2009! Today, the 10th of October is ‘Squid Day/Cuttlefish Day, or Squidturday, covering the tentacular species’. So, here is a special interview with the award-winning, Science Blog Anthology published and regularly quoted, cited and loved blogger – [...]
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You’ve seen the work win an Order of the Molly on Pharyngula, for ‘His/her poems are not only funny, but s/he’s got a sense of rhythm Pope would envy (that’s Mr. Alexander, not Mr. Ratzenberger).’ You’ve seen them appear as comments for the occasional lucky blogger over at ScienceBlogs.com. You probably even caught the original [...]
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Bugger! I should have guessed Blake Stacey would beat me to blogging it! The wonderful Digital Cuttlefish has a new poem about the Large Hadron Collider: The switch was thrown in Switzerland And protons zoomed around a bend— Across the world, we clasped our hands And waited for the world to end. The scientists at [...]
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Now, I could tell you all about the research I’m currently doing for a future TANK vodcast episode that got me collecting footage from both sides of the country, with the great help of the wonderful and talented Liz of the Skeptopia blog. Yes, I’d even add some squirrel references, just for her. I could [...]
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If you aren’t already a keen fan of my friend the Digital Cuttlefish… well, you’ll soon see how inspirational a blog can be – the original poem is featured here, (stemming from the news item discussed on Dispatches from the Culture Wars): “In an unguarded moment of unprincipled homophobic bigotry, Sally Kern, an Oklahoma legislator, [...]
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Earlier this month, a troll commentator banned from the blog of Pharyngula decided to criticize a little verse posted by Digital Cuttlefish. DC is, as you may have read before, a Scienceblog Molly award winner and extraordinary poet, who is prominently featured in the ‘The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007′. The [...]
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This just made me laugh out loud, so I’m posting it to encourage more interest -?Digital Cuttlefish?seems to be running a contest (I might see if I can help out with the ‘prize’ element, I’m certain I could find something cool to send over) for the best cuttlefish! Now, there’s a lot of knitters who [...]
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… well, I wish. Forgot to give a shout-out to my dearest aquatic friend, the?Digital Cuttlefish, for this verse – ‘Please Australia‘. I really must get moving with proposing a nice logo for DC. These cuttlefish giants are beautiful creatures (Just look at the picture! What beautiful features!) I hope that Port Bonython learns from [...]
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