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Lay, numb, eye drape, slice, cauterize, swell, ice, wait.

Phase 1 complete

Off to have my little basal cell carcinoma removed! I will post photos as the Mohs Surgery proceeds…

Face/Off (tiny edition)

Wunderground’s cool “Evidence for Climate Change” tab

Gotta hand the folks at Wunderground some credit on this one – I love their “Climate Change” tab, and especially the way they have organized the evidence for climate change. Hats off to you! http://www.wunderground.com/climate/evidence.asp?MR=1

Wunderground’s cool “Evidence for Climate Change” tab

Photo: The Plaza of the Wailing Wall

Photo: The Plaza of the Wailing Wall

Photo: Children at Play on the Rooftops

Photo: Children at Play on the Rooftops

Photo: Minaret

Photo: Minaret

♬All by myself / In a meeting room / All by myself♬ (international collaboration is lonely when everyone…

♬All by myself / In a meeting room / All by myself♬ (international collaboration is lonely when everyone else is on the phone…) This was posted on Google+…

♬All by myself / In a meeting room / All …

Photo: Ornate Designs inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Photo: Ornate Designs inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The Coming of Pump.io

Many years ago, I opted to give the federated social web a try. I was impressed by platforms like Twitter and, later, Facebook, but unimpressed by the “walled garden” attitude of many of those platforms (that includes Google+, where I am presented composing this entry). For my primary social web […]

The Coming of Pump.io

Kills cancer cells in a petri dish

Kills cancer cells in a petri dish Thank-you, XKCD, for putting this favorite line of many newspapers (“Kills cancer cells in a petri dish”) in perspective. +Ben Goldacre would be proud, I hope… 🙂 http://xkcd.com/1217/ xkcd: Cells ; >|. Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/1217/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png. Selected […]

Kills cancer cells in a petri dish

Photo: A Market Not for the Claustrophobic

Photo: A Market Not for the Claustrophobic

The Cockcroft-Walton Koffler particle accelerator at the Wiezmann Institute of Science.

The Cockcroft-Walton Koffler particle accelerator at the Wiezmann Institute of Science. This was posted on Google+…

The Cockcroft-Walton Koffler particle accelerator at the Wiezmann Institute of Science.

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    November 20, 2025
    I have been having an excellent time participating in the 2025 Canadian Science Policy Conference here in Ottawa. #CSPC2025 has hosted some engaging and […]
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    November 20, 2025
    Congratulations to the JUNO Collaboration on their first results with their #neutrino detector![2511.14593] First measurement of reactor neutrino oscillations at JUNOhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14593

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