Physics of the Pinewood Derby Car

Last week, Greg Cochran pointed out that it isn’t quite right to speak of the quartet of Freud and Marx and Darwin and Einstein together as the guiding spirits of the twentieth century, as Einstein didn’t really contribute the same way. You can see this even if you

In reading JD Cowan’s series on The Immortal Storm, a history of the foundation of science fiction fandom in the 1930s, one of the major conflicts that developed in those early days was between fans who were interested in science as such, and those who wanted stories about fantastical

A thread on the strange connections in technological development. And my favorite comment, a joke about Civilization tech trees. BBC: Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era The now long defunct Anthropogene blog had some great stuff on the pre-history of Arabia. There was a time when Arabia was