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Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The bullet-swallowers "Some connections are obvious: libertarianism and MWI are both are grand philosophical theories that start from premises that almost all educated people accept (quantum mechanics in the one case, Econ 101 in...
Posted on May 14, 2008 5:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Confessions of a Community College Dean: False Economies "[S]elf-defeating efforts at cost control" See also "deferred maintenance." (tags: academia economics stupid politics) Maths plus 'geeky' images equals deterred students This week, in the Journal of Unsurprising Results. (tags: math...
Posted on May 13, 2008 5:40 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Neon Season: Theatre Tag Hilarious tales of disasters on stage. (tags: theater silly society culture) Making Light: A new holiday, rarely celebrated "Happy Voice of Command Day, in honor of all of those people in our lives who...
Posted on May 12, 2008 5:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Solve Puzzles for Science | Fold It! Protein Folding: The Game! It has to be better than listening to seminar talks about it... (tags: chemistry games science computing internet news)...
Posted on May 11, 2008 5:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
slacktivist: L.B.: Speakerphone "If you're a book editor, you should own a copy of Left Behind to take along to your annual performance reviews. Just open to a random page, have your boss read it, and then remind them...
Posted on May 10, 2008 5:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Solar System Visualizer Look at those planets and moons go! (tags: astronomy planets science computing internet gadgets) Polar vortex replicated in a bucket - physicsworld.com "The centre of the vortex is usually circular, but occasionally it assumes a triangular...
Posted on May 9, 2008 5:35 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Japan Fights Crowds of Crows - New York Times "This is the Crow Patrol of utility company Kyushu Electric Power, on the hunt for crows whose nests on electric poles have caused a string of blackouts in [Kagoshima] on...
Posted on May 8, 2008 5:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swans on Tea » Doomed to Fail "A thought experiment that finds a contradiction has only shown that the transforms have not been properly applied -- the author has made a math error, or made a bad assumption" (tags:...
Posted on May 7, 2008 5:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Closure in an Ethics Case :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs Common sense prevails, for once (tags: academia ethics stupid) Ohmigosh fonts A big step up from Comic Sans (tags: comics...
Posted on May 6, 2008 5:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Open Left:: The Fear Before the Launch "[T]here's just something weird about putting two years of your life into something - from traveling, to reporting, to editing, to re-editing, to proofing, etc. - and then having it all be...
Posted on May 5, 2008 5:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Closing the achievement gap in math and science "The latest results from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program show not only improved proficiency among all elementary and middle school students, but also a closing...
Posted on May 4, 2008 5:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Bohr paradox - physicsworld.com "Pais also reports a distinguished younger colleague asking with puzzlement and scepticism "What did Bohr really do?"." (tags: history science physics quantum) Mind the hack - physicsworld.com "But are the public and other scientists...
Posted on May 3, 2008 5:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Voltage Gate : Why Jurassic Park Is Not a Pro-Science Movie Because Michael Crichton is a writer of Luddite Fiction (tags: books literature movies society culture) A consistent, worldwide association between short sleep duration and obesity '"[The study]...
Posted on May 2, 2008 5:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dawn of the memristor - physicsworld.com "In simple terms, a memristor "remembers" the amount of charge that has flowed through it and as a result changes its resistance. " (tags: physics materials science news) Where are all the women?...
Posted on May 1, 2008 5:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Japan, a Brief Pop-Cultural Survey | The A.V. Club "Japan: land of the rising sun. [...] Home to high-quality electronics, bizarre game shows, and vending machines that dispense beer and used girls' panties (not together...yet)." (tags: Japan culture society...
Posted on April 30, 2008 5:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Art of the Possible » Blog Archive » Wussy Like a Fox? "Summing up: Obama risks looking marginally "weak" by "not hitting back" against Clinton's attacks. But hitting back risks making him look like a) an asshole; b)...
Posted on April 29, 2008 5:34 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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