This showed up in the New York Post Online today: A 15-year-old Long Island student has become the youngest person ever to receive a Ph.D. fellowship from the Pentagon. Alia Sabur turned down a NASA fellowship in favor of a $150,000 Department of Defense fellowship, and picked a sophisticated project for the Pentagon. She’s working on a method of trapping …
…And We’re Back!
Not all the way back, of course, but back enough for now. Big and bold and sparkly clean on the inside as well as out. Underneath, I’m running WordPress instead of Movable Type for the log pages now. On top, the changes are obvious (I hope) — brought about by an all-new stylesheet that’s the sleekest and most compact I’ve written …
O, Heavens!
A little etymology can be a dangerous thing… Leo Canales is on a crusade to discourage people from using the greeting “Hello,” because, well… (here’s where my voice lowers to a dramatic whisper) it has the word “hell” in it. I’ll pause while you pick your jaw up from the floor. Got it? Good. Didn’t know you were invoking the forces …
Atlantis Found! (Er, Again?)
Hot off the presses from the BBC et al.: Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia. Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the “island” of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC. Unfortunately, it’s …