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Looks like a lost cause, but I always was a sucker for a lost cause. Voting for the Student Blogging Scholarship ends tonight at midnight, eastern time. So, its your last chance to vote for me to get $5000 to help pay for my PhD. And thanks to all that have already voted!
Say what? Fred Thompson is launching his presidential candidacy on Jay Leno? In today's fragmented media world, it's a smart move. As the political scientist Matt Baum describes in a recent study, and as I have detailed on this blog many times, with so many media choices, audiences without a…
Spoiler alert: If you don't want to know anything about the Olympic Women's 10,000 meter final just yet, stop now. The race was amazing on several fronts, but before I go any further, it will be broadcast on NBC tonight at 10:45 PM. I just finished watching the race on CBC. I can't give a lot of…
I've just emerged from a week in the Incredible College Simulator(*), first spending a week at DAMOP and then the weekend at my 20th college reunion at Williams, so while I have physics stuff I ought to write about, my brain has temporarily turned to goo. Also, I have a week's worth of…