Trapped in the USA

Philip Larkin They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some...

This short-film made by a 17-year old film-maker Kiri Davis (NYC) is winning awards and stirring up a storm of controversy across the Unite...

At parties, people often ask me what I do. Normally I answer that I simulate molecules on a computer. Most people seem satisfied with that a...

A stiff Vice President campaigns on his administration's legacy of unprecedented prosperity. Looks terrible on TV. Bows out, following a...

My intentions are pure But my gaze begins to wander As the voice drones on and on It is the nature of the Speaker to Speak And his words pou...

I look into my cup of tea And see some people swimming I swirl my cup Making waves and minor storms I look carefully and see That they are m...

Maddox's page of Unintentionally Sexual Comic Book Covers . Here's one example to the left (can you see anything vaguely sexual?). ...

I read 49 books, 3 short of a book a week, which in my books, is close enough. This year, I got to read some contemporary poetry. I also rev...

On people who like Joanna Newsom : "It's like people who say they love nature but you can't imagine them camping because their ...

I live in California, ergo, I must do some kind of exercise. My chosen sport (or anti-death activity) is football, or as they call it here, ...

"Make injections and decapitations quicker and easier with Braintree's DecapiCones ®. ...injections can be made directly through ...

Get it quick before it goes, for mice (or gerbil) fetishists: Comes with everything you see: Complete small-mouse, double-section, fixed Ra...

wefeelfine.org is one of the most unusual websites I've come across. It's a trippy animation. It's a social network. It's a...

Why do I love les chantueses françaises so much? See following, this girl sings from her id: Camille live : Le sac des filles

How do 2 proteins come together to form a complex? Although we can sometimes determine the crystal structure of a complex, this only gives u...

What does the the membrane that wraps around our cells look like? We know that the membrane is choc-a-bloc full of proteins, but we can'...

Short film (90s) at depict.org. I learnt heaps.

If I were to tell you that recently, I went to an experimental modern dance piece , you might raise your eyebrows. If I were to tell you tha...

I know the cute factor to this video will drip through your computer screen and onto the carpet. But I really, I couldn't resist posting...

I was just reading about Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria, the current president of Chile. Her biography is phenomenal (from wikipedia): Bac...

When you are inside the political circus of the United States, it's easy to forget that the victims of the spasmodic American war machin...

I love the comment system invented by those guys at reddit.com . It's a genuine innovation by bringing together a couple of simply idea...

This was seen in a display window of the Myers department store in Melbourne, Australia. As an Australian expat, I believe it demonstrates t...

I'm of the opinion that more people should know at least one other language. I'm not talking about some kind of cheesy tourist phras...

I am a computational biologist. I compute molecules. I sit in the darkness of the computer lab and sculpt molecules by wielding the sharp sc...

The other day, we had the world's greatest sculptor, Richard Serra, visit the UCSF campus where I work, in Mission Bay, a former industr...

So Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco (the seventh circle of hell for bible-belt americans) will be the Speaker of the House, the third highest p...

All praise to those brilliant men who conceived of the Constitution of the United States of America. They foresaw the inevitable tides of fa...

xenolalia - speaking in a language that you don't know the meaning of

This article ostensibly talks about a Walmart first, the whole staff of a Wal-mart store walking out. Given Wal-mart's aggressive anti...

I went to India 7 years ago, and it was one of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life. Music and vibrant primary colors saturate every...

Why do earnest spiritual seekers often find it necessary to learn to read spiritual texts in the original language? We have middle-class whi...

Live and direct from the marsh cafe, this is warren longmire bouncing light across the keys of one BASCO HO's macbook. Lovely keyboard i...

Trawling on youtube, I find an extreme example of pan-national cross-cultural fertilization. Bic Runga, new zealand singer of malaysian chin...

Today, I had a conversation with two friends, an architect and a painter, and we started talking about psychologically disturbed people t...

I was introduced to a new poetic form the other day. It's called the Pantoum, and it's one of the most brilliant forms I've enco...

"He could almost have been an American, but I could tell straight away that he wasn't. He had what no American man I've ever me...

Recently (as in the last two years) I published papers in the journals, BMC Structural Biology and Protein Science. It appears that BMC Stru...

The latest blog that has captured my rapt attention is hipsterotica . I see hipsters all around in the Mission, here in San Francisco. They...

U2's "with or without you" is one of the greatest song ever written - it's a song that tears at your heart and then shreds...

Je suis recemment allé à Montreal où j'ai pu achêté des livres françaises. C'etait vraiment un longtemp que je peux le faire. Après ...

Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing Chen-Bo Zhong and Katie Liljenquist Science 8 September 2006: 1451-1452 P...

A while ago, a friend dragged me off on a Friday night, out to the burbs, to see a show that had San Francisco plastered all over it. It was...

The Royal Society of England, the most venerable scientific institution in the world, has just release online, the archive of their journal,...

This is a writing exercise that I didn't know what to with, except to post it here: If I don't eat at the French Laundry my life wou...

This is beautiful and wonderfully ridiculous at the same time

Whining, you wriggle in my nose You loop in my ear canal Striking always in the moments before sleep I can't take it I want to snatch yo...

Standing hunched over keyboard in this apple store Tap tap tapping away before they catch me Spinning words on the fly, stolen From the crac...

The eye that I see God with Is the eye that God sees me with ~ Meister Eckhart I am the eye The all-seeing eye Worlds fall in my ken Who th...