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Emily Willingham 's Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis is not what I expected. Based on the cover art and the subtitle, it se...

I'll probably never   stop singing the praises of this museum, it is delightful and its subway stop is decorated to match. Oh, the ...

I was surprised to see this giant bronze woman holding a sonic screwdriver, wielding it quite fiercely at a (bronze) parchment in front of ...

My desk already had fun math puzzles, as decoration and to occupy my hands and mind while I spin my brain-wheels on research problems. To ...

Peter Watts ' Blindsight is a novel set ~75 years in the future, when advances in neurology and computing have merged to reshape all of...

Arts et Métiers not only has the coolest museum, it has the coolest subway stop. It's like the inside of a Jules Verne novel. Apologi...

It's the year of the sunflower. Can you locate Ernie? The convenient sunflower map --- a pleasingly-abstract thing, resembling an e...

Ack. Here's an article on manhood , with many not-what-I-expected statistics that women are out-earning men, adapting to new social and ...

Scott Alexander is resplendent in this blog post about science, statistics, confirmation bias, control groups, and the study of whether psy...

Early results are in for the 2014 Experiments in European Poverty Living (while I wait for my salary to begin). This morning the experimen...

I spent a fantastic afternoon in the science museum. I have a new favorite dongle. It's the Jacquard loom! I must have watched the wor...

Racism is bad. We all agree on that. I want to mention two leisure activities --- the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the movi...

No, not framing it for a crime. I just read the article A Revolution in Mathematics? What Really Happened a Century Ago and Why It Matters ...

How can you tell that I've been watching movies on R.'s Netflix account? One glance at this screen should explain it: That's ri...

The engineers in the basement have set up a giant pit of goo. This is the type of viscous slime which is liquid when allowed to flow freely...