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Lost and the String Theory

Back from a holiday in Portland  newly addicted to Lost (sorry it took me so long) and now know the difference between bourbon and whiskey. Elsewhere, people are actually doing important and clever things like starting The Smithsonian blog (via Information Leafblower) and deciding whether the string theory is baloney or spaghetti (via Arts & Letters Daily).   

Truth & Beauty

From Ian McEwan (author of Atonement):

Much has been written about the imagination in science, of wild hunches born out, of sudden intuitive connections, and benign promptings from mundane events (let no one forget the structure of benzene and Kekulé's dream of a snake eating its tail) and of the occasional triumph of beauty over truth.

("Is science driven by inspired guesswork?" Telegraph UK)