"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
–by Sebastian About two years ago, I bought a Honda Civic. After I purchased the car, I would see other people driving Honda Civics and other Honda cars, and I would have a vaguely happy feeling about them. I had never felt that way before about Hondas and Honda Civics, so it was odd. But … Read more
by Jacob Davies Well, I’m sure we’re about to be subjected to endless nonsense about how America is really a conservative nation and Obama overreached and blah blah blah. I say “nonsense” because this is how Americans actually vote: That’s it. The failure to understand this – and the failure to understand that a too-small … Read more
by Gary Farber
This is my sign-off post for at least three weeks or so, as a front-pager, as I'm in the final stages of my move to Oakland. (Any help, as described, much appreciated.)
But before I go, some quick parting links, and words from others. George Takei on Clint McCance:
Meanwhile, the Texas Supreme Court has been only logical: Texas Supreme Court Cites The Wisdom Of Spock On Star Trek.
by Eric Martin These 2010 midterm elections were going to be difficult for Democrats under just about any circumstances: the typical swing of the pendulum, as well as some improbable Dem victories in 2008, meant that the GOP was poised to make big gains in the House and, less so, the Senate. Add to that, lingering high unemployment … Read more
by Doctor Science
Greetings, fellow Citizens of the Republic of Science!
Galaxy Zoo began more than 3 years ago. It’s a crowdsource project to have regular people — citizen scientists, as they say — do image-processing for large-scale projects. I worked with them for a while — especially on what are now called pea galaxies — then dropped back as I did more political work and blogging.
Now I’m going through one of my periodic realizations that I’m wasting a lot of time doing mindless games (sudoku, fer chrise sake), and thinking maybe I could use those brain cycles — FOR SCIENCE!
At this point, Galaxy Zoo has expanded to a zooniverse of projects, some by the original team and some using the Galaxy Zoo API. This is what I think of the current projects: