In which Rhett and I talk about awful academic computing systems, Worldcon, our Wikipedia pages, and AAPT meeting envy.
Some links:
-- The 2014 AAPT Summer Meeting
-- LonCon 3, this year's Worldcon
-- My puzzling Worldcon schedule
We have some ideas for what to do next time, when our little hangout is old enough to drink, but you need to watch all the way to the end to hear those.
Categories
More like this
Matt "Dean Dad" Reed has a post about the issue of academic conference travel, which is expensive and often the first thing cut out of college budgets.
And speaking of reading, a couple of the books on the summer reading list I posted yesterday were actually purchased at the World Science Fiction Convention dealers' room!
I'm a late addition to a Sunday panel at Worldcon:
Science Blogging - The New Science Journalism?
The overlap between my readership and SF fandom is not as high as one might like, but I thought I would throw this out there anyway:
What were the best science fiction and/or fantasy stories of 2009?
I'd like to get your opinion/s on the so called Hutchison Effect.
Someone pointed out some videos and the ones with Hutchison sounded like techno-babble BS to me. But I'm just a broke down electrician, not a physicist. He claimed they proved the existence of previously unknown forces and potential sources of limitless energy.
Figured I'd ask someone who has a strong science background.