A rather snarky "history" of science.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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This is not a diary. It is a collection of thoughts, essays, stories, etc on those topics that are of interest to me. Being a blog, it goes without saying that it is utterly self-indulgent.
Andrew Lias
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- Originally a Precambrian paramecium, I have recently hitched myself up by my cilia and have made substantial progress with my phenotype. Rumors that I have "slept my way up the evolutionary ladder" are without foundation.
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- Unstructured Invisibility
- The "History" of Science
- The Fermi Paradox: Further Reading
- Your Exceedingly Geeky Joke of the Interval
- Science Tattoos
- Unstructured Space Dive
- The Fermi Paradox: Conclusion
- Intermission
- The Fermi Paradox: The Transcendent Hypothesis
- The Hyphen Goes Through a Bad Period
- The Fermi Paradox: The Stay at Home Hypothesis III...
- The Violence inherent in the System
- The Fermi Paradox: The Stay at Home Hypothesis II ...
- Unstructured Pharyngea
- Unstructured Flow
- Encounters with God... by way of Pirates
- The Fermi Paradox: The Stay at Home Hypothesis I (...
- Unstructured Choo-Choo
- Unstructured Trailer
- The Fermi Paradox: The Dangerous Neighbors Hypothesis
- The Fermi Paradox: The First Come, First Serve Hyp...
- The Courage of Pink
- Administrivia: Link Pops
- How Geek Are You?
- The Fermi Paradox: The Cosmic Quarantine Hypothesis
- DM of the Rings
- Nature, Black and White in Tooth and Claw
- The Fermi Paradox: The Cosmic Isolation Hypothesis
- Geek Tattoos
- The Fermi Paradox: The Chariots of the Gods Hypoth...
- Unstructured Street Art
- The Fermi Paradox: The Apocalyptic Hypothesis
- The Fermi Paradox: The Aliens are Among Us Hypothesis
- Geek Alphabet
- The Fermi Pardox: Introduction
- Unstructured Dazzle
- Unstructured Rockin'
- Unstructured Drawings
- Fisher Man
- Unstructured "What the...?"
- The State of the Blog
- Unstructured Positions
- The Museum of Hoaxes
- This Explains a Lot
- (Really) Unstructured Sentence
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