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My "Illusion of Certainty" webcast has been postponed tonight, due to technical difficulties. (Yes, I know.) We're still hoping that it can be rescheduled. Keep an eye on the World Science Festival webcast page for more information. (I did get to have a fun conversation with my co-hosts & some of the would-be viewers while we waited to see whether said technical difficulties could be worked out. Neat stuff that came up: A machine that takes the uncertainty out of coin-flipping, mind-blowing cosmology, and Footloose.)

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chaoskitten

In the Universe’s defense, you were really asking for it with that one ;)

An Alanis Morissette walked into a bar.
“Why the long face?” The bartender asked.
- Anonymous
  
  Hey, don’t pick on Alanis. She’s a perfectly good Canadian pop singer.
  
  -S-
Anonymous

I am enchanted by the anguished precision with which you italicize the “know” in “I know”. That’s the kind of subtlety and humor that can transform discourse, even today. I wasn’t following this whole discussion, but will now.
JM

I have no idea what this is about.
jphilby

Shame they don’t put up the videos for the events that already happened. (Or that they can’t be easily found, whatever.)