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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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November 20, 2009
Around ScienceBlogs, people who don't accept global warming as a real phenomena tend to get called denialists. In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit that I'm not a denialist but rather a global warming defeatist. Doesn't matter how...
Posted by Matt Springer at 1:36 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2009
Ok, see counselor Troi firing her phaser? You see this kind of thing all the time on film in scifi. Whether it's Star Trek, Star Wars, or pretty much anything else, energy beams fired from future weapons are visible. Usually...
Posted by Matt Springer at 4:15 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2009
There's a little bit of buzz burbling around over Al Gore's scientific goof during a Conan O'Brien interview. Discussing geothermal energy, he said the following: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy --...
Posted by Matt Springer at 4:33 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2009
Category: Sunday Function
We're doing two functions today. If I'm not mistaken we've done each of them separately, but there's a famous and interesting relationship between the two that's always interesting to look at. Like very many interesting mathematical facts, it has to...
Posted by Matt Springer at 5:49 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2009
Whew! Interesting day around here yesterday, no? There's more controversial topics out there: abortion, health care, gay marriage, Iraq, and a few others. But not many. It's good for sparking discussion, but I also know that some large (probably majority!)...
Posted by Matt Springer at 12:25 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2009
God help me, I resisted mightily. If my fellow SB friend Greg wants to spin the Ft. Hoot shooting as a cause for gun control then frankly there's pretty much nothing further to say. You'd think a @#$% major in...
Posted by Matt Springer at 11:56 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On Veterans Day we commemorate the living veterans of the American armed forces. On Memorial day we commemorate those who lost their lives. We should also spend a moment to remember those who helped make sure more soldiers fit into...
Posted by Matt Springer at 1:07 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2009
Category: Sunday Function
Again I have to apologize for the sparseness of posting lately, but I've got two research projects going full blast and time has not been something I have a lot of. I'll still be writing at least a few times...
Posted by Matt Springer at 12:13 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 7, 2009
Of late president Obama has taken a little bit of heat for his frequent (and mostly male) golf outings. Before him, president Bush took the same sort of heat for his golf and vacations. If you were willing to dig...
Posted by Matt Springer at 10:30 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 6, 2009
Here's a question which pretty much everyone gets wrong. But the readers of this blog aren't just a random sample, so I bet most of you will get it right: Two identical vehicles A and B, both traveling at speed...
Posted by Matt Springer at 2:02 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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