One year ago today
When Rudy Rucker met Kurt Gödel: Science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker — surely one of the world's all-time happiest mutants — met with Kurt Gödel on three occasions, which he documented in an essay from his book Infinity and the Mind.
Five years ago today
Drawings of a chicken as it grows up: Mieke Roth, a professional science illustrator, keeps chickens. For fun, she decided to make a single drawing every day of a single chicken as it grew up over a couple months.
Ten years ago today
Sen Coleman admits to downloading MP3s, but denies inhaling: Sen. Norm Coleman is beginning to germinate a clue. He's figured out that turning one in six Americans into a felon for engaging in file-sharing is corrosive to the body politic.
