Monthly Archives: February 2012

Apocalypse

Posted on February 29, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Apocalypse We all want to hear the trumpets sound; We all want the dead to leave the ground; On the last day (With flesh uncorrupted); God’s on His way The Earth’s interrupted And all that was lost is now found. … Continue reading →

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The Need For “Gal Pals”

Posted on February 29, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Good lord, has it already been a month since I came out? Time flies when you are having either fun or an existential crisis, it would seem. I would describe the past month as being a combination of the two. … Continue reading →

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The Vacuity of Modern Poetry

Posted on February 26, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I have noted in the past that I strongly identified with the protagonist of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography. For those who have not read it, there’s a scene relatively early in the novel when Orlando offers some of his … Continue reading →

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The Globe And Mail Sucks, Part 2: Sucking Harder

Posted on February 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Yesterday, I mistakenly implied that the Globe and Mail would publish anything: today, I see that that is not in fact the case. You see, a few days ago, a campaign of widespread voter suppression was unmasked; it seems that … Continue reading →

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The Globe and Mail: Where the ‘K’ Stands for “Quality”

Posted on February 24, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

So apparently it’s really easy to get articles published in The Globe and Mail these days. All that you need to do is write something– anything, really–about the neverending torment that is the Republican nomination contest. Take this, for example: … Continue reading →

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No Time Travel For You!

Posted on February 24, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

It seems that scientists at OPERA may have finally managed to explain-away that superluminal neutrino: According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects … Continue reading →

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I Am Not An Agent of Your Revolution

Posted on February 23, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

When it comes to transphobia in feminism, the most common and obvious manifestation is the Janice Raymond-esque second-wave “wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing” level hatespeech. But then there are the feminists who, to their credit, notice the obvious fact that we transgenderists do not, … Continue reading →

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You Learn Something New Every Day

Posted on February 22, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I happened to stumble upon this particular Wikipedia Entry: ‘The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which the unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability … Continue reading →

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Obsessive Originality

Posted on February 21, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I do not talk about it nearly as often as I talk about physics, but I also have a degree in Mediaeval European history. It’s an interesting thing, to be a mediaevalist in the modern age. I say that because, … Continue reading →

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Another Thing that Quantum Theory is Not.

Posted on February 21, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Less sensational than the claim that quantum physics allows for magic is the claim that quantum mechanics explains free will. Unfortunately for those who make it, this claim is no truer. The logic behind this claim runs something like this: … Continue reading →

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