Kate and I are going out of town for a few days. I may or may not check in and post some stuff while we’re gone– it will depend on how busy we are, and how good the Internet access is in the hotel. I had intended to schedule some substantive posts to appear during… Continue reading Vacation Dog Blogging #1
Month: March 2008
links for 2008-03-04
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Penrose’s Gödel argument in rap “About as logically sound as the original, and with a somewhat better backbeat” (tags: math music silly) (Don’t Taunt) The Reaper: 26 tempting but inappropriate funeral songs | The A.V. Club “What able-minded young person hasn’t thought about drafting a will for the sole purpose… Continue reading links for 2008-03-04
What Everyone Should Know About Science
Michael Nielsen is planning to attend an “unconference” and is considering possible topics. He quotes one from Eva Amsen: My idea: find 4 or 5 volunteers from different backgrounds to sit on a 20 minute panel and (with audience feedback) make a list of Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Science. Since we have a… Continue reading What Everyone Should Know About Science
Single Sex Education?
The Sunday New York Times magazine has a big article on single-sex public education, one of the latest educational fads. The bulk of the article is taken up with looking at promoters of single-sex classrooms for kids: Among advocates of single-sex public education, there are two camps: those who favor separating boys from girls because… Continue reading Single Sex Education?
Clemson 34 Maryland 11
This has been a rough basketball season. What with one thing and another, I haven’t been able to see many games involving either Maryland or Syracuse, and those games I have seen have been bad. Last night looked like it was going to be an exception, with my Terps holding a big lead over Clemson… Continue reading Clemson 34 Maryland 11
Best Alley-Oop Ever
This has to be seen to be believed: (Via the Times Union‘s high school sports blog, who says it’s from a high school game in Oregon.)
links for 2008-03-03
Please Call Earth. We Still Haven’t Found You. – New York Times SETI: still searching after all these years. (tags: science space astronomy) YouTube – Life at the Olin Outpost Clearly, they don’t assign enough homework at Carleton… (tags: academia youtube video silly physics music) Crooked Timber » » A lot or a little, part… Continue reading links for 2008-03-03
True Science Blogging, or “Hey, Check Out This Navel!”
The kerfuffle over the Bayblab incident has produced no end of discussion here and elsewhere. Hilariously, this included a lengthy discussion of why they see ScienceBlogs as cliquish, conducted entirely in the private back-channel forum that nobody else can read. Irony: it’s like gold-y and bronze-y, but made of iron. I realize that there’s nothing… Continue reading True Science Blogging, or “Hey, Check Out This Navel!”
Hyper Games, Small World
Technorati is working less and less well these days– it doesn’t update as often as it should, and misses links that I know are there– but it’s still good for the occasional new find. Such as Susan Beckhardt’s Intrinsically Knotted, which features among other things a really nice post about mathematical games: We’re going to… Continue reading Hyper Games, Small World
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Little Brother is Cory Doctorow’s bid for a place on this year’s list of banned books. It’s a book that not only encourages kids to hack computers, commit vandalism, and thwart law enforcement, it gives them detailed instructions on the best ways to do those things. It even comes with two afterwords and a bibliography… Continue reading Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow