Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tabletop RPGs on the Internet

So over the last few months, I’ve been using VoIP to join in tabletop RPG sessions with friends around the world. With players in Bahrain, Thailand, NYC and San Diego, we’ve been running play sessions nearly every alternate Thursday for … Continue reading

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Size limitations in cell biology

So I’m not as well read in biology news as I am in physics news but occasionally I read news in biological research that is just fascinating to me. Extremophile creatures, critters that live in very dry, very hot, very … Continue reading

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Sometimes physics comes up with the best acronyms

This just in for news of big scary machines of physics–something called, innocently enough, the Extreme Light Infrastructure. The ELI is a very powerful laser array that will concentrate 200 petawatts of laser power into a very small space-time in … Continue reading

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It was never merely about population

Sometime this year Earth’s human population passed 7 billion people. Sometime this year, for the first time, more than 50% of humanity lived in cities and towns. The predictions are that humanity’s population will peak around 10 billion or so … Continue reading

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