Between redstone in #mineceaft  and games like this from the makers of #spacechem  I think the boys …

Between redstone in #mineceaft  and games like this from the makers of #spacechem  I think the boys will have some exposure to the basics:)-  #ScienceSunday

Kohctpyktop. Engineer of the People. In KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People, you play as an engineer working in a semiconductor factory designing integrated circuits based on specifications provided t…

Sixty Symbols rides that fine line of telling science, making it interesting and not watering it down…

Sixty Symbols rides that fine line of telling science, making it interesting and not watering it down to the point of pablum. My kids enjoy watching it and asking questions…so total win. Go subscribe to them if you are not already. 

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Two new scientific papers look like changing the way we think about event horizons and what happens

Owning an assault rifle makes you a  “patriot” as much as owning a cook book makes me  a 3 Michelin-…

Owning an assault rifle makes you a  "patriot" as much as owning a cook book makes me  a 3 Michelin-star chef.  Owning is not doing, pretending is not being. The myth of the gun owning American Patriot, let us shine a little light on the boys and girls who play dress up patriot with no regard for the proliferation of devices made specifically to do two things…break things and kill creatures. Heck, at least when I pretend to be a chef I just wind up with some possibly tasty items, the gun folks wind up with a death count. 

And please, do not quote me the old "the tree of liberty is replenished with blood" sound byte, that is as hollow as a guy dressed up in full Klingon cosplay get up telling me it is a good day to die. petaQ 

And now rises Notch’s Army…

And now rises Notch's Army… 

Famous patent troll Uniloc is suing the creators of popular indie title Minecraft (PDF), which it claims infringes a patent it holds on copy protection software. But it might need to improve its own g…

“There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which…

"There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize — I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to — segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence." MLK