The icons of economic recession… tattoos?
I know there are still, and probably always will be, fuddy-duddies out there. But I couldn’t help wondering whether the Washington Post was joking when they recently posted the op-ed Ink-Stained...
View ArticleAs the world burns…
For the moment, I’m sitting next to Celeste on a dust-covered couch – one of many in this covered pavilion at the center of Black Rock City, Nevada. Lots of whimsy, nonsense, dust storms, and the...
View ArticleLive-blogging the Presidential Debate Tonight
I realize I’ve been missing in action for a while, and I have reasons (some good, some lame) for that. I’ll cover what’s been happening in science in the next few days. But first, tonight is the first...
View ArticleThe First Presidential Debate: Barack Obama v. John McCain (Live Blog!)
Here we go – the debate party has started at my house; there’s about 15 or so Obama supporters gathered at my apartment and squeezed into my living room watching PBS and waiting for the debate to...
View ArticleBill Ayers Is A Good Person
Since Barack Obama doesn’t know him well, and since I’ve clearly endorsed Barack Obama for president, I’d like to take a quick moment to make a distinction between my own view of Bill Ayers and Senator...
View ArticleOn Election Day eve
I’ve been busy lately with Obama/Biden campaign activities. Somewhat. To be honest, I’ve also been feeling disorangized and not quite sure what I want to write about in this blog. I am hoping that...
View ArticleOn Victory…
I spent Tuesday in Philadelphia, “getting out the vote”. I place that term in quotes because almost every person I spoke with had already voted. Among the hundreds of doors I knocked on, I did not...
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What The Future Holds
I’ve been more than a little slack the past few months in updating Survival Machine. But the impending new year brings with it the potential for resolutions, and I expect to make plenty of those. In...
View ArticleOkefenokee dokey
The internet bandwidth at my hotel here in Georgia is having its own little recession. So, I don’t really have the patience to research and write a good entry tonight. I’m in Waycross for work...
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Happy Darwin Day!
Today is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, the British naturalist whose publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species laid the foundation for virtually all subsequent discoveries in biology. He...
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Don’t mess with Pan troglodytes
I’ve been spending much of this evening brushing up on Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee. Yesterday, a woman in Stamford, Connecticut was terribly mauled by Travis, her friend’s 14 year old,...
View ArticleReading List
I’ve decided I need to kick my reading into high gear, after realizing it’s been quite some time since I actually finished any new books. So for inspiration, I compiled a brief sample list of books...
View ArticleDaylight Awesome Time
Daylight Savings Time is one of my favorite annual events. It’s sunny and spring-like on this late-winter day, and I’ll have an extra hour to enjoy it when I finish working today. Maybe I’ll try to go...
View Article“It is time for us to lead once again”
I regret having just set a personal record for the longest period of time between posts. But let’s forget about that right now, because today there are a couple BIG events to talk about. Swine flu:...
View ArticleOuranos ex machina
Dear Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Verily, I beseech ye to establish a Nobel Prize for Magnificence, and award the first one to Steve Eves. Humbly, simian Seriously, wow. Copyright © 2013 Survival...
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Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
Unexpected hiatus, it seems – over 2 months without an update! I’m not letting this blog die, though. At the moment I am very busy but I wanted to post quickly to say Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!...
View ArticlePerseid Party, or Death From The Skies!
IMPORTANT: Even if you can’t go with me tomorrow, please read this article about the Perseid Meteor Shower, and try to find the most promising way to see them near where you are. And if you happen to...
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Four Centuries of Optical Zoom
Today marks another landmark scientific anniversary – the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first telescope. It was on this day in 1609 that Galileo presented his prototype 8x-magnification telescope to...
View ArticleBetter post something… I’m wasting my best domain name!
Ohhh riiiight…. I have a blog. No, I didn’t forget about it – but one might wonder why I haven’t posted anything new since last November. Well, let me just make this post into a few tidbits about...
View ArticleWhy I Do Not Fear Death (a poem)
Why I Do Not Fear Death To me, the dozen billion years (a time scale we can’t comprehend) that passed before my day of birth give comfort for the coming end. To know that not one atom in my body at the...
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