-
"So how can scientists strategically convey their messages to a broad audience without losing the nuances of their field? "
-
Does not include Pratchett's Hogfather, probably because it's too British, but it's better than almost anything that did make the list.
-
"Soren Sorensen, head of the UT Department of Physics and Astronomy, wrote a wonderfully informative column in the current issue of "Cross Sections" -- the department's newsletter. He discusses the economic situation in the context of his department, but the insights apply to the state of Tennessee, the University of Tennessee and science education in general."
-
"It was the year that the Large Hadron Collider was finally fired up -- and then abruptly shut down -- and 2008 also saw significant progress towards the detection of dark matter. Physicists got a little closer to making practical quantum computers and 2008 saw a few nifty inventions to harvest energy from human motion. US president elect Barack Obama made a few high-profile science nominations that could signal a change in the US government's view of climate change. It was also a good year for Japanese physics, as three Japanese-born particle physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics. "
-
"So what were the big physics findings for 2008? The following list was chosen by editors and science writers at the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. It winnows a wealth of discoveries into the following ten topic areas, which are listed in no particular order. "
-
Last-minute gift-giving advice for the chef on your list.
-
"Honestly: what sense does it make to stick it to a bunch of auto workers while letting the financial executives off scot-free? How can Richard Shelby get all upset about the fact that some blue-collar workers have, gasp, health care, and not about the fact that financial executives, on whom we have spent a lot more money than the Big Three ever asked for, get financial planners and chauffeurs?"
Categories
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Turn or go straight? Quick! : Dot Physics
This is a classic problem. You are in a car heading straight towards a wall. Should you try to stop or should you try to turn to avoid the wall? Bonus question: what if the wall is not really wide so you don't have to turn 90 degrees?
(tags: physics…
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] raises the unanswered question yet…
EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
"If you indeed instituted the calls to flatten out the federal tax distribution, the influence of state and local taxes would leave you with an incredibly regressive tax structure, not a slightly less progressive tax structure. Which is something to keep…
Spins spotted in room-temperature silicon - physicsworld.com
"Physicists in the Netherlands are the first to show that spin-polarized electrons can be injected into silicon at room temperature. The team injected the electrons into both p-type and n-type silicon and measured how long the…
Actually, I thought Hogfather was one of the more by-the-numbers Pratchett efforts.