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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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The use of Occam's razor on this website is strickly prohibited.
Cows are well approximated by a sphere.
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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
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
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
To the jerk, or jerks, who broke into my car and stole my laptop and passport while parked in downtown Vancouver. Pfffft! You stink! And just what do you think you're going to do with all those LaTeX files? Maybe...
Posted on March 18, 2008 5:34 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
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...
Posted on February 27, 2008 5:16 PM • 4 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
A while ago a message from Kris Krogh appeared on Scirate.com about ariXiv:0712.3934 stating Kris' belief that the paper appeared under a pseudonym (the comment contains the contents of the link which was sent to the arxiv's administrator.) Today I...
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Posted on January 21, 2008 10:57 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
What else am I to conclude from recent UFO reports out of Texas, except that no one in the entire town had a cell phone with a camera? Or a digital camera? Do the aliens use data from cell phone...
Posted on January 16, 2008 9:43 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
You know you're in rural America when... Reminds me of one of my favorite bumper sticker ideas of a few years ago (less true today): "Buy American: Do Meth!"...
Posted on December 28, 2007 10:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
