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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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Interesting new website from the New York Academy of Sciences: Scientists Without Borders:Scientists Without BordersSM aims to mobilize and coordinate science-based activities that improve quality of life in the developing world. The research community is already promoting areas such as...
Posted on May 14, 2008 6:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Science is full of hard problems. One hard problem is protein folding. Indeed vast amounts of computer power have been thrown at this problem. So one wouldn't think that the computer we've got sitting on top of our body would...
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Posted on May 10, 2008 9:20 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
After a comment suggesting that a Science Film festival be held to combat a certain idiotic movie, He of Uncertain Principles agreed, and then the powers that be at scienceblogs decided to hold a poll on the Best Science Movies....
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Posted on April 29, 2008 12:51 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
David Baltimore and Ahmed Zewail, both Nobel dudes, have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the presidential candidates choosing not to participate in a debate over science and technology policy:All three candidates declined. Apparently the top contenders for...
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Posted on April 17, 2008 1:57 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
It was an unassuming blue-grey volume tucked away in the popular science section of the Siskiyou County Library. "Spacetime Physics" it announced proudly in gold letters across the front of the book. Published in 1965, the book looked as if...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 2:21 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Whatever you do, Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Mary America, make sure to tell everyone you know not to go into science and engineering! You see those who major in science and engineering are certain to not get jobs, because,...
Posted on April 8, 2008 7:52 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
I always thought that I was special because I have, in my short life, been kicked into a night club. But now, comes word of an even more spectacular event: scienceblogs' own PZ Myers was expelled from seeing the creationist...
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Posted on March 22, 2008 2:45 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
A New York Times article has appeared about a study on the effects of excessive beer drinking on scientific productivity. The study, (Tomas Grim, "A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists." Oikos 117...
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Posted on March 20, 2008 10:58 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
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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Posted on February 27, 2008 1:07 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
A website dedicated to chronicling the lives, injuries, and money lost due to a lack of critical thinking. Woah. Is it just me or is there is somethink kind of creepy about assembling this kind of website?...
Posted on February 13, 2008 11:41 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
