This week, after messing around using the PlantNet app to identify, or misidentify, the weeds in my garden, I decided to see what it could tell us about the plant life of Equestria. The way it works is you feed it a photo, and it applies the magic of machine learning to reference it against a database of images and identify the best fit. A very useful tool for botany students and gardeners. The accuracy has improved a lot in recent years, thanks to photographs

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Bridport police car out of action after seagull decides to nest on it

Last week turned out much more exciting than expected. We got the first dose of Tell Your Tale on Thursday, which was very nice, but not quite the same level of awesomeness as the announcement from Fermilab on Friday that they’ve measured the mass of the W boson and it doesn’t fit the theory.

Let’s tell this tale.

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Wonkette: Angry Parents Of Ohio: UNICORNS ARE GAYYYYYYYYY

Source

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I might be running short of things to blog about the New Generation film. But here’s one more observation: Stairs do not seem to exist in G5 Equestria.

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Hitch: …that is kinda what our teacher said in history class.
Izzy: …Come on, rip out all the pages of your history books

Historians love writing books explaining how other historians got it all wrong.

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Thanks to everyone who has read: This Is How a Unicorn Talks. It was nice to see one of my stories in the feature box again, and great to read all your comments and questions.

I’ve written plenty of posts about particle physics, but given the short description that I wrote for that story, I thought this week I should try to write something about philosophy, with apologies to any philosophers out there.

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Happy Hearth’s Warming everyone. I hope you are all in good health and enjoying the holidays wherever you are. Do you need something to do after eating the good food, playing with your new toys, and catching up on all the new films, books, fanfics and anything else? Here are some ideas:

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Here’s a game for physics and G5 pony nerds: look at the shadows in the film and identify evidence to support one of two theories:

1. The sun follows a path across the sky as predicted for a rotating planetary body in orbit around a star.
2. The sun is controlled by an unseen alicorn princess, or another magical creature, and moves around the sky somewhat erratically.

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