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Happy Leap Friday! For your enjoyment, some ferromagnetic fluids jiving to a piano piece:...
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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
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February 29, 2008
Slandering Ants Anthropically
Category: Best Title Ever
Another checkmark in front of the "antrhopic reasoning is whack": arXiv:0802.4121 Title: Ants are not Conscious Authors: Russell K. Standish Anthropic reasoning is a form of statistical reasoning based upon finding oneself a member of a particular reference class of...
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Scirate.com Trackbacks
Category: Science 2.0
Some of you know (and use) the website I created a year ago, Scirate.com, a place where arXiv papers can be voted for digg style and comments can be left on the papers. After a while of not tinkering much...
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February 28, 2008
Assorted Technology Bits
Category: Technology
Technology tidbits of assorted flavors: I think I just made myself dizzy. Multi-touch to the max, dude! What does it take to build the next Silicon Valley (besides Gallium Arsenide?) Via John Cook's Venture Blog comes this report. Bill Gates...
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HD Shroud of Turin
Category: Religion
Coming soon to a desktop near you: Your own digital Jesus. (Someone to hear your prayers. Someone who's there. As much as a collection of bits representing the image of a sheet can be there, I guess that is.) Yeah...
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February 27, 2008
If Only I'd Founded "iPho"
Category: Funny Ha Ha
Quick, Batman! To the trademark-mobile along with a stack of three or four letter company names: Feb 27 (Reuters) - On-demand business phone service provider Nuvio Corp said it filed a lawsuit against Garmin International Inc...alleging Garmin's Nuvifone infringes on...
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Popular Science for Scientists?
Category: Science
Over at Cocktail Party Physics, Jennifer Ouellette shares her thoughts on good science communicationI've learned over the course of my varied career that the trick to all good science communication is being able to boil a complicated science story down...
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February 26, 2008
"Filming" an Electron
Category: Physics
On the intertubes today I'm seeing a lot of references to "Electron filmed for the first time" (digg, msnbc, Live Science.) For a decent explanation that doesn't involve radically distorting quantum theory, I recommend this Physical Review Focus article (and,...
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February 22, 2008
The Earth is Growing! The Earth is Growing!
Category: Off The Deep End
Crackpot animation of the day:...
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Ski Lift Conversations
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The man on the lift chair at Stephen's Pass asks me my occupation. Professor, I tell him, at the University of Washington. Oh, he offers, My daughter is a fourth generation Husky. I was in the class of 1972. Or,...
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