Psychology of Disgust
Studying the universal concept of "touch transference." That's professor talk for cooties.
Pub Rock Returns
This 2-CD set sounds essential. This is what we old fogeys used to listen to, young 'uns.
Pulp Fiction
It's funny, but hard-boiled pulp fiction seems to appeal to the literary mouth-breathers and the most extremely intellectual literati (and I make no claim as to which group I fall into). Even so, I did a double take when I saw that the review of Otto Penzler's new The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps was by John freaking Banville, author of The Sea, Doctor Copernicus, The Newton Letter, and Kepler, a novel."
Punctuality Is a Tax on the Inefficient
A not completely tongue-in-cheek explanation of the late lunch.
Punctuation That Will Not Be Used Here
Kee-rist—an irony mark? BMAFG!
Put On a Happy Face
Smiling mug shots? I suspect drinking was involved.
Quack, Quack
The theory was perfect but the patient stubbornly died. Two new books set Druin Burch a'thinking.
Quantum Computing
SciOrg is reporting that an optical-based quantum computer has successfully demonstrated "counterfactual computation," which is to say it came to its conclusion using information that is counter to what actually happened to reach a correct answer. Also, the computer did not actually run.
Quantum Lectures
Hans Berthe gave three lectures on quantum theory to a retirement village near Cornell. Cornell is streaming them on the web for those of us who need an expert interpretation—and who doesn't? As Richard Feynman so famously said, "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
Quantum Mechanics Just Got Even Stranger
Is that even possible?