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drorzel | October 21, 2007
The Right-Wing Facebook - Welcome
"Rudy Giuliani is wondering how he can fit 9/11 into a speech about agriculture policy."
(tags: politics US silly)
A Paler Shade of White: Musical Events: The New Yorker
An attempt to find cultural significance in the fact that the author doesn't like indie rock.
(tags: culture music)
Cocktail Party Physics: e is for energy
An index of sorts for conference blogging of the Industrial Physics Forum
(tags: physics science industry)
drorzel | October 20, 2007
...My heart's in Accra » Pop!Tech 2007
More interesting conference blogging posts than I can link individually
(tags: gadgets society science computing economics education)
The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question - New York Times
Nobody likes the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
(tags: economics Nobel)
drorzel | October 19, 2007
Terra Sigillata : News Flash: Unathletic Kids Unpopular and Lonely
Also, bad at sports.
(tags: education silly sports)
slacktivist: Gay-Hatin' Gospel (pt. 2)
Part two in Fred Clark's series attempting to explain evangelical gay-bashing
(tags: politics US religion)
Optical Dilution and Feedback Cooling of a Gram-Scale Oscillator to 6.9 mK
Blogged a while back, now in print: LIGO used lasers to cool the motion of a 1g mirror.
(tags: physics science articles quantum low-temperature)
Quantum Control of the Hyperfine Spin of a Cs Atom Ensemble
Precision control of the quantum state of an…
drorzel | October 18, 2007
Mixing Memory : Women in Math, Science, and Engineering, and Playing Video Games
The solution to the gender disparity in science: Mandatory first-person shooters for everyone!
(tags: gender science psychology)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Sweetening the Deal
Handing out chocolate boosts teaching evaluation scores.
(tags: academia education science)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: A Sharp Critique of MBA Education
A critique of business schools that goes beyond "They're full of assholes."
(tags: academia…
drorzel | October 17, 2007
Hopkins Is Boeheim's Designated Successor at Syracuse - New York Times
Bernie Fine: Don't hold your breath, Mike...
(tags: basketball)
yoco :: College Basketball || (a sports weblog) analysis and commentary on college basketball and the ncaa tournament
Georgie suspends three players for missing classes. Would they do this to the football team?
(tags: basketball football)
slacktivist: Gay-Hatin' Gospel (pt. 1)
Fred Clark looks at some possible explanations for the rampant gay-bashing among evangelicals.
(tags: religion US politics culture)
On being a scientist and a woman : Teaching…
drorzel | October 16, 2007
Crooked Timber » » Political science and economics
High-level discussion of the economics Nobel
(tags: Nobel economics politics academia)
Mixing Memory : Women in Math, Science, and Engineering: Is It About the Numbers (And Not the Ones You Might Think)?
Notes on the science of "social identity threat."
(tags: psychology science gender academia)
Likelihood of Burst Appendix Tied to Insurance - New York Times
Insurance: topping the list of industries that need to be blown up and started over.
(tags: medicine politics economics science)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education…
drorzel | October 15, 2007
Edge-Serpentine Gallery: FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Equations as art objects (via Cosmic Variance)
(tags: science art blogs)
Marginal Revolution: Mechanism Design for Grandma
The Economics Nobel explained
(tags: economics Nobel news)
drorzel | October 14, 2007
Friends, not policies, win elections - Physics World - physicsworld.com
I am shocked-- shocked!-- to learn that voters don't always elect the candidate woth the best policies.
(tags: politics physics stupid journals)
C. Sample Citation and Introduction to Citing Blogs
For those times when you want to use a LOLcat in a Science article... (via Neurophilosophy)
(tags: blogs academia journals)
Pure Pedantry : Crazy Useful Paper on Statistics
Error bars, their use and misuse. (Months old, because I'm clearing some old stuff out of my RSS reader in advance of Big Changes)
(tags: math science…
drorzel | October 13, 2007
Overheard in New York | History Is an Unbroken Chain of Irony
(tags: silly)
YouTube - Cowboy Bebop AMV - Woolongs for Nothing
A classic Dire Straits video redone with Cowboy Bebop characters
(tags: anime music youtube silly)
drorzel | October 12, 2007
Nonlocal Quantum Effects with Bose-Einstein Condensates
New theoretical resutls having to do with measurements of particles in two independent condensates show some cool quantum effects
(tags: physics quantum science articles)
Finite-Temperature Collective Dynamics of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover
Experimental resuts looking at fermionic atoms near the transition analogoue to that in a superconductor.
(tags: physics quantum science articles experiment)
Nonlinear Phase Shift from Photon-Photon Scattering in Vacuum
QED effects may shift the phase of really intense laser pulses due…
drorzel | October 11, 2007
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 - Speed Read
The Nobel committee explains the Chemistry prize
(tags: chemistry Nobel science news)
PhysicsCentral: Nanobowl Video Contest: Win World's Smallest Trophy!
Make a YouTube video showing the physics of football, win a nanoscale trophy
(tags: youtube science physics football sports)
Freaky Ninja Turtle Dog
Click the image for video. Not even a poodle deserves this.
(tags: dog pictures stupid)
Single top: new results from CDF! « A Quantum Diaries Survivor
The latest exotic particle news.
(tags: physics science news experiment)
New quantum…
drorzel | October 10, 2007By popular request, I'm moving the links below the fold. Click "Read on" to find a wealth of links to Nobel Prize information, colorful bunnies, and early basketball information.
You R Here: MTV News Live Music Coverage » Ticket Stubs: Bob Dylan, The Shins, Breaking Benjamin, Lifehouse
MTV News notes my Dylan concert review. Does this count against my fifteen minutes?
(tags: music news concert)
Blogging at MentorNet
New blog from a prominent science and engineering mentoring organization. They could stand to add some sidebar links, though.
(tags: academia science gender blogs)
Troths…
drorzel | October 9, 2007
Physics 2007
Fert and Grunberg, for Giant Magnetoresistance. People have been calling for this for years.
(tags: physics news science)
drorzel | October 8, 2007
The Booze News
Because the world needs another web site dedicated to drunk college students
(tags: academia stupid)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: The Educrats' Attack on Teaching
Hugo Schwyzer goes to a workshop on "improving student learning outcomes," then gets snarky about it.
(tags: academia education)
YouTube - "Dog"
An anti-drug ad from people on drugs
(tags: silly drugs dog)
Taming tiny, unruly waves for nano optics
Fairly garbled press release about light propagation at nanometer scales.
(tags: physics news science)
Confessions of a…
drorzel | October 8, 2007
BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Laws & Equipment | Rugby union positions guide
A guide to accompany the World Cup
(tags: sports rugby)
Particle-physics detector warms to forest fires - Physics World - physicsworld.com
New spin-off technology from CERN. Clearly, we must build the ILC!
(tags: physics experiment gadgets science)
Tom Baker Says...
Via bassfingers on LiveJournal
(tags: silly)
drorzel | October 7, 2007
Cognitive Daily: Casual Fridays: Most citizens don't pass the citizenship test
I aced it, how about you?
(tags: politics science US)
james_nicoll: Where are the collapsed world-states of SF
"Isn't it a little odd,..., how few SF settings ever seem to have an Earth where a world-government has collapsed into contending states?"
(tags: SF)
Red Squirrels - Gray Squirrels - Great Britain - Animals - Pests - Invasive Species - New York Times
Emmy is available to help...
(tags: animals dog biology)
ZIPskinny - Get the Skinny on that ZIP
Demographic information by ZIP code, and comparisons…
drorzel | October 6, 2007
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Early (Encouraging) Data on Early Colleges
If you offer college courses to good high-school students, they do better in college. Also, grass tends to be green.
(tags: education academia)
Improbable Research
The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded.
(tags: science silly news)
Off the Kuff: On nominating judges
Comments from someone who knows the process from the inside
(tags: politics news)
OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
The good news that only the WSJ will bring you...
(tags: Iraq war politics news)…
drorzel | October 5, 2007
Euler's Constancy
A short biography of and tribute to the mathematician Leonhard Euler, who did a bit of everything
(tags: math academia physics)
Scientists 'weigh' tiny galaxy halfway across universe
Six billion light years away, 1/100th the mass of the Milky Way
(tags: astronomy news science)
nanoscale views: Challenges in measurement
When expensive equipment blows up your samples
(tags: physics experiment)
The industrial space age
A Swedish scientist suggests putting industry in space, and dumping trash on the Moon
(tags: astronomy space science)
U-M research: New plastic is…
drorzel | October 4, 2007
Stopping atoms
A "coil-gun" method for slowing atomic beams without lasers, from the Raizen group at Texas
(tags: physics low-temperature science atoms)
Confessions of a Community College Dean: An Open Letter to Mayor Richard M. Daley
The Dean Dad is less polite to Hizzoner than I was
(tags: academia stupid education)
Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: Blogonomics: RSS Feeds - Portfolio.com
The economic case for full-text RSS feeds. Cory Doctorow has been pushing this for years.
(tags: blogs economics RSS)
Next steps for physics graduates - Physics World - physicsworld.com…
drorzel | October 3, 2007
School cheating scandal divides New Hampshire community - International Herald Tribune
At some point, wouldn't it actually be easier to learn stuff, rather than breaking into the school to steal the exams?
(tags: stupid education)
PhysMath Central takes off with a big bang
(tags: physics journals academia open-access)
Are women being scared away from math, science, and engineering fields?
(tags: academia physics psychology gender)
Menace in a bottle
An NMR-based method for distinguishing shampoo from scaaaary liquids that can't go on planes.
(tags: stupid science physics travel)…