Daily Archives: February 5, 2012

Hapax and Heyer, Austen and Irony, or, What I should have said.

by Sherwood Smith The other day I was with a group of people, and one of the subjects that came up was favorite books, and the defense thereof. One person was defending romances, saying that the fact that she’s getting … Continue reading


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Biological Revolutions: Abiogenesis Part 2

(Picture from here.) This is the follow on to the abiogenesis entry I did here. There we talked for probably much too long about containment and how crucial it was to derive modern organisms. Today we’re going to talk about … Continue reading


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