Excerpt from “Toward a Unified Theory of Einstein’s Life” by John Horgan:
As World War II gave way to the cold war, Einstein became increasingly disturbed by anti-Communist paranoia in his new nation (he had become a U.S. citizen in 1940). “America is incomparably less endangered by its own Communists than by the hysterical hunt for [...]

Dennis Overbye of the New York Times writes about the largest supernova explosion ever observed. Quoting Dr Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute:
Cautioning that theorists still do not know for sure what caused the explosion announced today, Dr. Livio said, “Here we have the brightest supernova we have ever observed and we don’t [...]

Daniel Wilson is having fun again.
Who is Daniel Wilson you say?
He has a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie-Mellon University, which I’ve been told is pretty grand. But what is grand was his first nifty little book How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and having a PhD in Robotics, he should know.
He now has come [...]

From I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?

Hat tip: Simon Oxwell
*Addendum: I just noticed that this is Squid post #200. Woohoo!

Why won’t it stop? I had no intention of raising religion this frequently, but right now being an atheist in Australia is like being locked in a room with a TV blaring out Religious Big Brother 24 hours a day that you can’t turn off or turn down.
Yet another mental contortionist speaking in the name [...]

Squid-friend Margaret Ruwoldt snapped the photo for today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day. It’s a field of xanthorrhoea, a slow-growing grass tree that displays tremendous bursts of growth in the aftermath of natural disasters such as bushfires. Margaret has more photos from this set on Flickr.

I’ve been listening to a lot of indie pop recently, and it seems to me that some songwriters ought to be gently taken aside and told that no amount of jangly guitar and LOUDquietLOUD dynamic can hide a really bad lyric line. To be fair to indie pop, I’ve pulled some of the very worst [...]