Here’s a bit of wisdom from the SMBC comic:

As the creator of a few pink math blog posts (see: The Pinkie Pie Guide to Irrational and Transcendental Numbers) this got my attention. Let’s examine the problem.

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I saw this a day or so after submitting The Pursuit of Academic Excellence (and Ice Cream). It nicely illustrates the history of writing this story.

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I have a new story in the queue: The Pursuit of Academic Excellence (and Ice Cream). A sequel to The Brightest and the Best, in which I explore what happened at Princess Celestia’s School immediately after Twilight passed her entrance exam.

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Is anyone in Sanford, South Dakota this evening? I'm very curious to know what my old friend Markus Horn is getting up to these days...

Deep Talks: LUX: Hunting for Unicorns (Dark Matter) in the Black Hills

As we moved into season 6, it seems I am not the only one who let out a cry of “But I still haven’t finished rewatching all of season 5!”

Back in the old days before season 3, when there were fewer episodes, there was plenty of time to rewatch everything. But now we have a legacy of over 120 episodes, plus Equestria Girls films and shorts… and the books and comics... And that’s before we even start on the fanfiction.

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Can’t decide whether to spend your time playing computer games, looking at cute animal pictures, or doing serious science? Try out Penguin Watch 2.0 and you can do all three at the same time. Kill hours of quality time clicking on penguins and thus help monitor their population.

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I arrived at the college where I work this morning to find it had been turned into a hospital overnight. At least that was what a new sign by the door declared it to be. Walking through the doorway, I met a team of workmen hanging up signage redesignating what I thought was a classroom as a ward. It turned out that my employer had not sold the site to the health service and forgotten to tell me, but there’s a film crew in town.

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Some years ago, as a young physics undergraduate, I knew a sociology student who would come along to a group I would hang out with, accompanied by her extremely cute four-year-old daughter. She was as friendly and talkative as Pinkie Pie—the sociology student, not her little girl, who was too shy to talk and would hide behind a chair if anyone spoke to her—and would talk at great length, to anyone who would listen, about the failings of the social care system, the leadership battles within the

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A fossilised skull has revealed when the last 'Siberian unicorn' lived on Earth

Originally believed to have died out 350,000 years ago, it turns out they actually survived much longer. Amazing how radiocarbon dating can reveal results like this.

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An exciting weekend. Season 6 has arrived. Crystal ponies are in this season! Along with further exciting things.

Some random thoughts on The Crystalling:

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