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OSblog (oz' blog): We Don't Give A Tinker's Damn
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. May 30, 2014. We Don't Give A Tinker's Damn. Tinkers were the traveling tinsmiths of yore, and are often conflated nowadays with Tink er. Phineas Mason, aka "The Tinkerer" from Marvel Comics. In Jack Hitt's book Bunch of Amateurs. To the "what do you do? On the side, he helped run the country. If you were a great tinkerer of his time, you maybe swore a lot. A tinker's damn,. As far as Victorian cussing went,. The Kinks, Cre...
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OSblog (oz' blog): May 2013
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. May 20, 2013. Mother Nature has a growing catalogue of images of herself done up in style - weird, snarling, matronly, demure - you name it. We think we'd now include this video. Thanks, biologist Stanford Chen, for alerting us to this! There are so many ways a Westerner can celebrate Nature. Maybe a solstice festival. A sustainably-farmed-pig roast. A salty ship's-bow reading of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us. To once a...
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OSblog (oz' blog): November 2012
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. Nov 7, 2012. Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley,. Is one of the most visible and vehement voices against climate change. And he may or may not be real. Describes his public emergence:. In 2006, Monckton.burst onto the climate denial scene with a story in the. A self-described former special adviser to Margaret Thatcher,. E has also claimed. To be a member. We wonder what effect, if an...
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OSblog (oz' blog): February 2013
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. Feb 24, 2013. Spooky Action at a Distance. This image, from the newly revamped Jansky Very Large Array. Is of Invisible W50 - a supernova. That exploded violently 20,000 years ago. It now contains a black hole, spans. Nearly 700 light years across. And, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Resembles our very own benign and lumpen Florida Manatee. The "Manatee Nebula," images from NRAO. Of miles away, but we.
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OSblog (oz' blog): May 2015
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. May 21, 2015. Mars, Rolling in Ecstasy at Your Feet. 8220;You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. From Peter Capaldi's comic short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. For starters, the journey is poetic: a new cosmology will emer...
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Elastic Atlas: July 2013
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Friday, July 26, 2013. Project is a collaborative effort to work with the inhabitants of a city to map multiple experiences and interpretations of one place - in this first case, Oakland, CA. The project is run by Camie Bontaites. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The Elastic Atlas Project is a collaborative effor. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.
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OSblog (oz' blog): The Sampled Circles of Hell
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. Jun 6, 2014. The Sampled Circles of Hell. Eons ago, I wrote a PhD dissertation. It's appropriately mothballed now, but the question that led me to write it still feels germane: How do women see, and reflect, themselves when science is declared "not theirs"? Blunt hook, perforator, fillet, used by "male midwives". What song of science-led oppression wouldn't be more poignant with a bit of hell thumping underneath it? We coul...
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OSblog (oz' blog): May 2014
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. May 30, 2014. We Don't Give A Tinker's Damn. Tinkers were the traveling tinsmiths of yore, and are often conflated nowadays with Tink er. Phineas Mason, aka "The Tinkerer" from Marvel Comics. In Jack Hitt's book Bunch of Amateurs. To the "what do you do? On the side, he helped run the country. If you were a great tinkerer of his time, you maybe swore a lot. A tinker's damn,. As far as Victorian cussing went,. The Kinks, Cre...
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OSblog (oz' blog): June 2014
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TOURING the STORIES, MEMES and BELIEFS that light up the MEAN STREETS OF SCIENCE. Jun 6, 2014. The Sampled Circles of Hell. Eons ago, I wrote a PhD dissertation. It's appropriately mothballed now, but the question that led me to write it still feels germane: How do women see, and reflect, themselves when science is declared "not theirs"? Blunt hook, perforator, fillet, used by "male midwives". What song of science-led oppression wouldn't be more poignant with a bit of hell thumping underneath it? We coul...
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