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UW 16, USC 13
Posted by Dave Bacon on September 21, 2009 Note from the weekend: nothing feels better than beating USC
A Curmudgeon’s and Improv’s Guide to Outliers: Chapter 1
Posted by Dave Bacon on December 30, 2008 Moving on to Chapter 1 in my ongoing pedantic plodding through Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success. See here for what this is all about. Note that I really am doing this as I read the book (I’m reading it really really slowly), so what I say here may be outdated by the time…
Rivalry Week
Posted by Dave Bacon on November 22, 2008 This is rivalry week
Quantum Rugby
Posted by Dave Bacon on September 30, 2008 A quantum physics spotting in….rugby? An article about rugby player Jonny Wilkinson: The experiment was conceived by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödin-ger to demonstrate a conundrum at the heart of quantum physics: that a sub-atomic particle exists in two states. However, the act of measuring it effectively forces it into one particular state, rather as…
Tiger Versus the Theoreticians
Posted by Dave Bacon on June 18, 2008 David Brooks, has an op-ed in the New York Times about Tiger Woods and his astonishing string of triumphs in the golfing world (including last weekends U.S. Open which I watched the end of on both Saturday and Sunday: my wife was right he did make that last put.) Brooks piece waxes on and on…
Quantum Hoops in Berkeley
Posted by Dave Bacon on January 15, 2008 Quantum Hoops, a movie about the Caltech basketball team, will be playing in Berkeley at the Landmark Shattuck Cinemas. Now if only we could get it up here in the Pacific Northwet.
Love Songs at a Football Game
Posted by Dave Bacon on November 13, 2007 Last night I went to the Seahawks/49ers game at Seattle’s spectacular Qwest field. While the field was spectacular, my SF 49ers were less than spectacular, losing the game 24-0. In fact they down right stunk. Ouch. Qwest field really is a rocking venue: I attended a game last year right after the league started investigating…