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Earlier this year I decided to host a small game day for the contributors of Lautapeliopas. I’ve been doing yoga, and the yoga school rents out the place. It’s a lovely place and good for small gatherings. For the first game day on...
This is the seventh in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. T Earlier posts explored, how this project started, the method, the role of wonder and beauty, the craft, how scientists think,...
What right has a “personal fortune” to be anything but working capital? The time is here when the commanding law is, “to whom much is given, of him shall much be required.” Henry Ford The post Personal Fortune first appeared on Joel...
This is the sixth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier posts explored, how this project started, the method, the role of wonder and beauty, the craft and how scientists think....
The post Such a good mechanic video and very funny first appeared on Joel Gross's Blog.
A week or so ago I wrote a letter to Richard Dawkins — part tribute, part diagnosis — about his now-famous two-day conversation with Claude (or rather, “Claudia”), in which one of our most celebrated skeptics concluded that the chatbot...
One of the things I missed moving from WordPress to Hugo: scheduled posts. WP just… does that. Set a future date, and forget about it. And static site generators don’t… The site only rebuilds when you git push, and that’s it. 😢 Why...
A blunt personal guide to what happens when you go to hospital for self-harm, from triage and stitches to mental health assessment, discharge, and possible psych ward admission.
The post Henry Ford on Stock Speculation first appeared on Joel Gross's Blog.
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share them far and wide! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot...
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 abcde - A Better CD Encoder Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then tagging or commenting it, is very involved. abcde is designed to...
How denying ourselves all the real fun leads to disaster