Astrophysics for the common man

Tonight Mark Frary, science and technology writer for the Times, was kind enough to invite me to the launch of his new book, The Origins of the Universe for Dummies. It’s billed as “for those who bought Brief History…, but never made it past the first chapter.” - that certainly applies to me. As well as plying me with booze and delicous tiny foodstuffs, he also gave me a free copy which I shall be devouring with equal relish.

So when you ask. “Frank, how much would you sell out and give a thinly-veiled infomerical for?”, I can reply “Two glasses of wine, several canapés, and a book, bitches!”.

Seriously though, this might be the book to reconcile me with physics.

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Colossus the crab!

If you’re the kind of person who likes this, you’ll love hugecrab.com.

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Who is the sexiest scientist?

Cole over at holotone.net has flagged this contest over at Grupthink - “Who is the sexiest scientist?”. There doesn’t appear to be any distinction between real and fictional, or famous and unknown, and currently Christopher Lloyd as “Doc” in Back to the Future is enjoying a healthy lead. But come on, no Jeff Goldblum? He out-sexes every movie scientist there is!

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