I keep meaning to write a substantial follow-up post talking about science funding, but it’s not a great Friday topic, so it’ll probably wait for Monday, even though I’ll be away for the latter part of next week. I’m moving a little too slowly this morning to really do it justice, so here are some […]
Month: May 2006
Credo
A very nice post from Rob Knop, exploring the the role of faith in science: You may then ask, am I not then taking many of the results of science as faith, since I didn’t check all of the experimental results and subsequent analysis myself? Answer: yes and no. It is a lowercase-f “faith”, in […]
Thrown to the Wolves
Last night was the third annual faculty-student basketball game, held as a fund-raiser for charity by a local sorority. This year the threw us a team that included five players from the varsity, including the only 2,000-point scorer in school history. Needless to say, we didn’t win… It was sorta-kinda close for a while, until […]
Giant Booklog Backlog
Well before I was a footnote in a list of popular science blogs, I started out into the world of weblogging by starting a book log, which I still maintain, sort of. I haven’t posted anything to it in a few months because, well, this site takes up most of my blogging energy, and I […]
Greatest Since When?
Via Arcane Gazebo, a pointer to the Blender list of “The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.” At least, it was a pointer to that article last night– all Blender links seem to be 404ing this morning, which also means I can’t discuss the songs in detail. That’s fine, actually, as the list is […]
Skip to the End
Via a LiveJournal post on the dorkiest thing ever, a link that isn’t new, but new to me: The Lord of the Rings in quotes from The Princess Bride: PETER JACKSON: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava. AUDIENCE: What? PETER JACKSON: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava. […]
Two Cultures in Meetings
Prompted in part by Rob Knop’s post on meeting with humanists, an observation about the nature of academia attributed to our late Dean of the Faculty, a former Classics professor: The key difference between disciplines in terms of administrative business on campus is that scientists tend to do their research work (experiments, calculations, simulations) in […]
Filter Feeding
As noted in passing in the previous post, I try to ride my bike to and from work when the weather is nice enough. In a good week, I might get three bike rides a week in, which is a little extra exercise, and that much more gas I don’t have to buy. The major […]
A Day in the Life
Woke up, got out of bed Ran a comb across my head…
100 Science Words
One of the perks of my job is that sometimes people send me books for free. Granted, these are mostly introductory physics textbooks, which tend not to be page-turners, but I’m a big fan of books, and I’m a big fan of free stuff, so free books are great. Thus, when I was contacted by […]