Marianna had sunk into life on solid ground. Her savings taking a hit as she put down a deposit on an apartment near the cafe.  Gas City , she never thought she would work there, but she needed a job. She thought about driving off. She considered going all the...

Cal visited him in the common area. The supervisors still didn't assign him anything so Cal had nothing but time. On his desk he made it look like he was busy, spreading out a coffee cup, and scribbling notes. But non of it meant anything. 

"Dude man we're kind of...

It didn't register that Keith was going to die. The doctors told him it was the perfect storm, his mother smoked, his dad drank, and he spent almost a decade in space. His body had tried to adapt to all these things and everything else Keith through at it, but...

Marc Love felt free in  Gas City . I mean he was free in most places, but here he didn't feel like anyone knew who he was. He didn't hear the word blue ever. He thought that even if he painted his body and danced around, people wouldn't bother him....

Reading this book currently. Its free and interesting data driven approach to study how science works. It ends talking, like most things do lately, about AI. But still really interesting stuff, even that section I learned something new. 

One really cool thing it talks about is that persistence seems to...

Debby didn't mind waking up early. When she did she drank coffee slow her husband started before he left even earlier. She drank it black the mug was her grandmothers. She had a few recipes from her that used that exact mug as a measuring cup. Thats why she had...

Been reading a lot about science, but more how to do science. This guys blog Matt Clancy has been really interesting, especially his posts about proximity. In his post he talks about a lot of things, but one thing he touches on is physical closeness is really important for discoveries,...

Chris sat on the end of his bed. The simulated window shown the earth, and was supposed to make you feel awe. Looking at everyone you love , and everything you know in one place. But Chris was just mad, all this shit he said looking at the view.

Fake...

People only do this job if they are running away, or they're weird and just want to watch people. Either way, Cal was pretty sure it wasn't the last one with Keith, he never checked on the women. He found boring people, normal people more interesting than anything else. But...

Many scientific papers, journalists and even scientists on twitter agree. Science is becoming less disruptive than it used to be. People are making more and more papers, that differ only slightly. Just enough to be novel, not enough to be different. 

 Derek Thompson a writer for The Atlantic says...