I have been informed that Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians (2007) is now available in audiobook format from Cherry Hill Publishing. Cherry Hill is now selling an eight-CD recording of the book read by the author, with a foreword by John...
Posted on December 26, 2008 1:15 PM • 5 Comments •
I haven't yet seen the new The Day the Earth Stood Still movie. Generally speaking, I haven't been terribly speedy about seeing movies as they come out; sometimes, I just wait until they're available on mplayer. The reviews have not...
Posted on December 15, 2008 9:18 AM • 9 Comments •
I'm currently staring at a heap of numbers and trying to make sense out of them. In lieu of substantive discourse from me, therefore, here are a few items I've recently enjoyed reading: Jonathan Shock explores the physics of rainbows...
Posted on December 3, 2008 12:16 PM • 3 Comments •
Can physics tell us about ourselves? To phrase the question more narrowly: can the statistical tools which physicists have developed to understand the collective motion of large agglutinations of particles help us figure out what our brains are doing? If...
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Posted on November 27, 2008 1:06 PM • 6 Comments •
The case of the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is a moderately long and troubling one; before I write anything else about it, I should try to compress what's happened so far. Yo, dudes, it's Elsevier. This journal we've got...
Posted on November 21, 2008 11:49 AM • 0 Comments •
The Immortal Storm of daily life.
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Posted on November 12, 2008 10:20 AM • 7 Comments •
The evolution and ecology of spatially distributed populations is a confusing field to study, since nobody seems to be fully aware of the work which other people are doing. In a way, this mirrors the systems being studied: spreading a...
Posted on October 29, 2008 9:29 AM • 0 Comments •
What we need, and what we're missing.
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Posted on October 21, 2008 9:36 AM • 6 Comments •
A clip from a 1996 BBC show.
Posted on October 17, 2008 9:24 AM • 2 Comments •
I revisit
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.
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Posted on August 31, 2008 11:13 PM • 9 Comments •
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