Category: Physics
The story so far: New Scientist magazine publishes an issue with a heartbreakingly sensationalist cover, and biology experts across the Blogohedron get up in arms. (See Sandwalk, Ecographica, Evolutionary Novelties and Genomicron for sample critiques of both cover and content.)...
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Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:11 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today's xkcd was insufficiently nerdy for me. Yes, that's right. In order to make the comic adequately reflect what I do on a daily basis, I have at least to modify the temperature conversion chart:...
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Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:19 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here's computer-graphics guru Jim Blinn narrating a demonstration reel of the animation used in the esteemed television series The Mechanical Universe (1985). This Caltech production turned a freshman physics course into a video experience covering Newtonian mechanics, introductory calculus, electromagnetism,...
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