I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

  • theophrastvs

    they would’ve told us if a Möbius strip hydrofoil opened a door to another dimension, wouldn’t they?

  • annomination

    Vortex knots exist in optical speckle, and this has been known for quite some time. There is a paper with a sweet title that describes this called “The Fractality of Lights Darkness.” This bubble-hydrofoil video is a classic case of academics over-hyping a cool looking experiment. They should be less loose with statements like “first time a vortex knot has been realized.”
    http://www.phy.bristol.ac.uk/people/dennis_mr/papers/PRL100_053902.pdfd for those of you too lazy to google it.

    • Mark Dow

      Lighten up; your EM field’s in a knot.

      • annomination

        Well played. 

  • oasisob1

    I so totally wish Flaming Pear Software would update this:
    http://www.flamingpear.com/knot.html

    I never learned one thing about knots except that they were crazy fun to design and color.

  • http://profiles.google.com/steve.nordquist Steve Nordquist

    Smokeless cigarettes just got some cred back…as long as they can pull 100G and do (micrograph, I suppose) streak photography. The open question: How will this help us tell kitchen and makerspace entrances apart?