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gregladen | November 26, 2009And twenty and one half inches long.
The "D" is for Drew (his uncle). Labor was 8.5 hours long, a record for our midwife. In fact, labor was fairly easy. For me anyway.
Everything is fine. Baby pictures a bit later. Thanks everyone for your support and kind thoughts!
agelman | November 26, 2009Julien Emile-Geay writes about a postdoc opportunity for a postdoc in climate
dynamics, applied statistics, or applied mathematics:
"Beyond the Hockey Stick: new approaches to paleoclimate reconstruction"
In 1998, a seminal study by Mann, Bradley and Hughes took advantage of climate signals embedded in an array of high-resolution paleoclimate proxy data to conclude that "Northern Hemisphere mean annual temperatures for three of the past eight years are warmer than any other year since (at least) AD 1400." The so-called "hockey stick" reconstruction showed relatively stable temperatures for…
gregladen | November 26, 2009225 Improv Everywhere Agents shop in slow motion at a Manhattan Home Depot.
gregladen | November 26, 2009This is one of nearly 100 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past eight years in New York City. Others include the Best Game Ever, the Food Court Musical, and the famous No Pants Subway Ride, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made.
One of my most intense childhood memories is from Grand Central. Butit wasn't this.
revere | November 26, 2009Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, and the inevitable political innuendoes aside, it's usually a holiday I like. I'm fond of my family -- both my own and my wife's -- and glad to see them, although in recent years we have dwindled down to a few. Still, I basically have good memories of these meals. Having said that, it's also a time when Americans eat too much, and although I'm not a big eater (and even less so as I age), any big holiday meal always makes me think of the first visit to my wife's extended family. I come from a laid back Jewish upbringing (I dumped any religious…
gregladen | November 26, 2009Anthem Health Plans of Maine, a subsidiary of WellPoint, is suing the state because they want to increase premium rates by 18.5% on their 12,000 individual insurance policy holders, so they can guarantee themselves a 3% profit margin. This story shows how silly it would be to solely rely on regulation to rein in insurance industry practices.
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agelman | November 25, 2009This is all standard physics. Consider the two-slit experiment--a light beam, two slits, and a screen--with y being the place on the screen that lights up. For simplicity, think of the screen as one-dimensional. So y is a continuous random variable.
Consider four experiments:
1. Slit 1 is open, slit 2 is closed. Shine light through the slit and observe where the screen lights up. Or shoot photons through one at a time, it doesn't matter. Either way you get a distribution, which we can call p1(y).
2. Slit 1 is closed, slit 2 is open. Same thing. Now we get p2(y).
3. Both slits are…
mspringer | November 25, 2009A quick and simple way to roughly check the calibration of a spectrometer is to point it at the ceiling. Fluorescent lights put out a particular spectrum, and by comparing the colors the spectrometer senses to the colors you know the light emits, you can see if your spectrometer is accurate to a first approximation. I did this very thing yesterday, with the following result:
This is about what we expect to see. Fluorescent lighting consists of a relatively discrete set of colors compared to the broad Planck's law emission of a hot incandescent bulb. The central peak in the florescent…
gregladen | November 24, 2009The test saw the Solar Impulse take some slow steps down the runway using four solar-powered electric motors. The plane taxied without landing gear -- just like in a normal takeoff. Now that the runway test was successful, the Solar Impulse team will taxi to takeoff speed and let the plane take off for some short "hops" in the air. Full-fledged flight tests will begin next year.
more here.
gregladen | November 24, 2009More on the CA tuition thing:
What do you think about this news story? It is a product of Newsy.com, which I think is new.
gregladen | November 24, 2009I hear the cries and the calls of the religious moderate, and they are as usual correct. We have been too uppity, and I apologize on behalf of all of us. We should have known better, of course but in our exuberance at the publication of books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and others, we forgot to realize that even though our numbers seem to be growing we are really riding the crest of a fad. It was something we should have recognized, and we should have told all those who heard that there are other atheists just to go home and pretend that they are…
gregladen | November 24, 2009REMOVED BECAUSE THE "AMAZING ATHEIST" IS A VERY VERY BAD PERSON AND HIS STUFF IS NOT ALLOWED ON THIS BLOG ANY MORE .
gregladen | November 24, 2009Honoring the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, Evolution of Evolution: 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" is a multi-disciplinary one-stop-shop of resources on evolution and Darwin himself that are available nowhere else--including eye-catching graphics; captivating interviews and essays by a team of international evolutionary experts; fast-read texts; a timeline that neatly summarizes major intellectual and technological achievements that advanced our understanding of evolution; and downloadable documents.
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gregladen | November 23, 2009This is the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. I will be posting Darwin related items all day.
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