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The Quantum Pontiff : A Curmudgeon's and Improv's Guide to Outliers: Introduction "Gladwell's books are fun, but I find myself often disagreeing with his analysis, so I thought it would be entertaining to take my time reading his latest and jot down my thoughts as I progress. " (tags: science…
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: physics relativity science education) Dark Matter Searches at Colliders - part…
Songs for the Dumped: The Prelude | Popdose "[A] two-week anthology in which music nerds write about tracks they've attached to a particular crippling breakup, let you splash around in the stories behind them and hopefully, if we've done our jobs, make you feel slightly better about your own mi (…
The Neon Season - Things I Have Learned From Reading Children's and YA Books of Yesteryear (and sometimes of Year Now) "1. The dog always dies." (tags: books literature culture silly) Talk Like A Physicist Because we're cooler than pirates. (tags: physics science silly) Cocktail Party Physics…