Kevin Plaxco
@kwplaxco
Bioscientist. Bioengineer. A few other things.
I was too young (4 years old) to remember the first moon landing, but by the time I was 11 I was more than nerd enough to be glued to the TV watching the first ever pics come back from the surface of Mars. 50 years ago today.
Sad, if perhaps not unexpected news. Nobel Prize winner Rudy Marcus died on 16 July, just days short of his 103rd birthday. I had the pleasure of a zoom meeting with him in October and he was as sharp and engaging as ever. The field has lost a giant, on whose shoulders I have long been standing.
Well this is new. Linkedin just served me up an employment opportunity as a gig worker: paid journal article reviewing.
That weird feeling you get when the worst person in America accidentally says something true.
That happens to be the theme of Kilgore Trout's "Venus on the Half Shell."
And near Earth asteroid Torifune. Two new worlds in one day! japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-natu...
Without downloading new pics what is it like to date (and/or be married to) you?
I gave up on the WaPo years ago. I'd hate to also give up on the NYTimes. But this guy is a decorated army surgeon who literally saved the life of a (now) US Senator and worked as a volunteer trauma surgeon in Bosnia, Haiti, and Gaza. Contrast that with their paper-thin guilt-by-association lede.
By omitting the phrase "yet again" from this headline, the NY Times once again fails us.
I had to look this up to confirm that it is a real Cheetolini post. I have no idea if he knows he's lying or if, in his demential-riddled mind, he thinks this is true and, if so, how that is the case when he, not Biden, was in office at the time. I honestly don't have a clue which it is.
This is an amazing paper. But I am having trouble getting over the 4.5 year gap between original submission and publication. WTF? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's not a cow-based saying, but it is my favorite cow-themed pic. It's theoretical physicist Kip Thorne pontificating on the superiority of cubic cows over earlier, spherical approximations.
Reason #614 why I love Melbourne. A pop-up tiramisu stand has magically appeared across the street from our apartment building.
Paying homage at Luke and Anikin Skywalker's old haunts during our few-week wander around N Africa this month.
So many mind boggling elements to this, but the one I'm stuck on is his (mis)use of commas.
I feel obliged to note that, as one of the infinitesimally small number of Americans who has actually seen our neighbor to the North East first-hand, I really enjoyed my visit. But I have absolutely no desire to (or right to) own the place.
Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne expounding enthusiastically on the implications of non-spherical cows during our walk through the Melbourne docklands this morning.
Per the 1977 Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, it is prohibited to kill, injure or capture an adversary by resort to perfidy. The following acts are examples of perfidy: The feigning of civilian, non-combatant status