Fake bands and science songs: two databases you pretty much can’t do without. Let’s face it, they’re essential. The former’s a comprehensive list of fake bands, musical groups which do not exist. The latter’s a list of actual songs about—you guessed it—science. And math, too. Though there probably aren’t as many songs about math. (If […]
Science Fair
Touching on a topic near and dear to my heart1, the Waterboro Public Library weblog has a few links of interest to those faced with the prospect of doing a science fair project. Note: 1 Or at least brain. And if I never say “near and dear to my heart” again, it will have been […]
Posted by Ben on January 4, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/science-fair/
Squelch goes the permafrost
Via BBC: …Alaska is not the only region in a slump. The permafrost melt is accelerating throughout the world’s cold regions, scientists reported at the recent Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. In addition to northern Alaska, the permafrost zone includes most other Arctic land, such as northern Canada and […]
Posted by Ben on January 2, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/squelch-goes-the-permafrost/
The Beastles
…get ’em while they’re hot! The Beatles meet The Beastie Boys, courtesy of dj BC. It’s music.
Posted by Ben on January 2, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-beastles/
It’s the idea that counts
My initial last-day-of-the-year post idea was to do something clever, but not too clever—like, for instance, 365 links, or things, etc. Something amusing, but not too thorough (no diatribes, essays, etc.—not that they tend to show up here anyway). Something light. Then I realized that 365 of anything is a lot. And that’s when I […]
Posted by Ben on December 31, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/its-the-idea-that-counts/
Top Science News of 2004
Science News has a list of the “most compelling” stories as selected by its writers; some of the articles are available free (look for the asterisks), though most aren’t. (via BoingBoing)
Posted by Ben on December 29, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/top-science-news-of-2004/
Absurd
Even hand-selected lists of headlines are going to occasionally tread into the absurdity zone, but this is particularly galling: Note the major headline and then compare it to the second item in the bulleted list. In what world are the deaths of “dozens” of tourists in any way comparable to 22,000 deaths? No one expects […]
Posted by Ben on December 27, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/absurd/
The Year In Weird
Via AFP, Yahoo! has a summary of offbeat stories from 2004. Go; read and be merry.
Posted by Ben on December 23, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-year-in-weird/
The 52 Hertz Whale
Imagine roaming the world’s largest ocean year after year alone, calling out with the regularity of a metronome, and hearing no response. Such, apparently, is the situation faced by a solitary whale, species unknown, that has been tracked since 1992 in the North Pacific by a classified array of hydrophones used by the Navy to […]
Posted by Ben on December 21, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-52-hertz-whale/
Not that kind of luck
This would be utterly laughable, if not for the fact that it’s, what’s the word, frightening? Somewhere in the world, there’s a navy blue suitcase with a small pack of explosives tucked in its side pocket. Four days after police at Charles de Gaulle Airport slipped some plastic explosives into a random passenger’s bag as […]
Posted by Ben on December 21, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/not-that-kind-of-luck/