itsfullofstars: Stephen Hawking: Women Are ‘A Complete Mystery’ Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most eminent physicists, has admitted that women number among black holes and supersymmetry as one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. In an interview with New Scientist magazine ahead of his 70th birthday on Sunday, Hawking was asked what he thinks about most during the day. “Women,” he replied. “They are a complete mystery”. Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, and was expected to live for just a few years. Since his diagnosis Hawking has gone on to become one of the world’s most famous scientists, both for his academic work on black holes and his books including A Brief History Of Time, which has sold more than 10m copies since 1988. In the interview with New Scientist, Hawking also refers to the “blunders” that have blighted his academic and also his personal life. Keep reading. Reblogging partly because this story is good and partly because I wrote it and it turned up unannounced in my Tumblr stream. Being plagiarised* feels good. * Though it’s not really plaigarism, in this context.

itsfullofstars:

Stephen Hawking: Women Are ‘A Complete Mystery’

Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most eminent physicists, has admitted that women number among black holes and supersymmetry as one of the greatest mysteries in the universe.

In an interview with New Scientist magazine ahead of his 70th birthday on Sunday, Hawking was asked what he thinks about most during the day.

“Women,” he replied. “They are a complete mystery”.

Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, and was expected to live for just a few years.

Since his diagnosis Hawking has gone on to become one of the world’s most famous scientists, both for his academic work on black holes and his books including A Brief History Of Time, which has sold more than 10m copies since 1988.

In the interview with New Scientist, Hawking also refers to the “blunders” that have blighted his academic and also his personal life.

Keep reading.

Reblogging partly because this story is good and partly because I wrote it and it turned up unannounced in my Tumblr stream. Being plagiarised* feels good.

* Though it’s not really plaigarism, in this context.

Nice To See The Raspberry Pi Doing Well

… in this piece that I wrote. And also on eBay.

America's X-37B Space Plane: What's It Really Doing?

life: In Christopher Jonassen series Devour he photographed old frying pans made to look like planets.  (see more of the work here on Feature Shoot)

life:

In Christopher Jonassen series Devour he photographed old frying pans made to look like planets. 

(see more of the work here on Feature Shoot)

newyorker: Stumptown Girl: An indie-rock star satirizes hipster culture, on “Portlandia.” “Portlandia,” which débuted last winter, on the Independent Film Channel, and returns on January 6th, is the rare sketch-comedy series that has a sustained object of satire. It’s about life in hipster enclaves, and the self-consciousness that makes hipsters desperately disavow the label. Many of its characters are caught up in the prideful culture of D.I.Y. entrepreneurship, in which people reject office jobs in favor of becoming, say, an appliqué-pillow designer with a page on Etsy. - This week, Margaret Talbot writes about Portlandia” and its unlikely star, indie rocker Carrie Brownstein: http://nyr.kr/tkB59a

newyorker:

Stumptown Girl: An indie-rock star satirizes hipster culture, on “Portlandia.”

“Portlandia,” which débuted last winter, on the Independent Film Channel, and returns on January 6th, is the rare sketch-comedy series that has a sustained object of satire. It’s about life in hipster enclaves, and the self-consciousness that makes hipsters desperately disavow the label. Many of its characters are caught up in the prideful culture of D.I.Y. entrepreneurship, in which people reject office jobs in favor of becoming, say, an appliqué-pillow designer with a page on Etsy.
- This week, Margaret Talbot writes about Portlandia” and its unlikely star, indie rocker Carrie Brownstein: http://nyr.kr/tkB59a

The Lego Wars

A shocking expose of my private life I wrote for the Huffington Post.

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942

A picture I took on the Williamsburg Bridge recently.

A picture I took on the Williamsburg Bridge recently.