In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop – New York Times “To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. “ (tags: blogs writing journalism society culture computing internet) Calorimeters for High Energy Physics… Continue reading links for 2008-04-07
Month: April 2008
Hoisted from Comments: Moderate, or Linearly Independent?
Stealing a post-generating method from Brad DeLong, Bill Tozier posted and interesting comment that I wanted to highlight: I’ve often wondered why people place me (a moderate in a lot of polarized debates) “in the middle”. I think I’m orthogonal, not “in the middle”. I’m concerned about plenty of things; they’re just not what’s being… Continue reading Hoisted from Comments: Moderate, or Linearly Independent?
Jazz Recommendations?
I’m looking for some recommendations of music in the instrumental jazz sort of vein, and I figure this is an area in which the Internet knows more than I do. I have some fairly idiosyncratic constraints, though, so please read the whole post before recommending stuff in comments. Background: For reasons that don’t bear going… Continue reading Jazz Recommendations?
Down to Two (UCLA-Memphis, UNC-Kansas)
Well, that was certainly an odd pair of national semifinal games. They were very similar in some ways– Memphis ran circles around UCLA from start to finish, and Kansas did the same to UNC, save for a ten- or fifteen- minute stretch in the middle of the game. I watched very little of the Memphis-UCLA… Continue reading Down to Two (UCLA-Memphis, UNC-Kansas)
links for 2008-04-06
PHD Comics: Campus architecture “Sure, the could have built three building for the same price, but those buildings would be functional and non-leaking.” (tags: academia comics silly) Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing “I once met a lady named Rodana. I think she runs a successful internet business.” “In her spare time she destroys Tokyo.”… Continue reading links for 2008-04-06
The Problem of Moderation
It’s probably a little foolish to continue this on a Saturday, but I’d like to wrap up the giant framing/ religion/ screechy monkeys mess and get back to more pleasant topics, at least for a while. Putting it off until Monday would make this more visible, but it would also drag things out, so I’m… Continue reading The Problem of Moderation
What’s in a Name?
I am obscurely glad to learn from this Times human-interest story that Kansas center Sasha Kaun is from Russia. Otherwise, he is at the age where any parent naming their child “Sasha Kaun” would’ve had to deal with everybody thinking “Sasha Kaun Sasha Kaun everybody Sasha Kaun…” Yes, I am both a Bad Person and… Continue reading What’s in a Name?
links for 2008-04-05
Inactive kids face 6-fold risk of heart disease by teen years, study finds Correlation or causation? (tags: education medicine US social-science science news) Reassigned Time: PSEUDONYMITY is not Anonymity, duh “Pseudonymity is not about being untraceable but rather about taking on a traceable identity that is distinct from one’s legal identity, or one’s identity at… Continue reading links for 2008-04-05
The Sticky Tape Lab
I had the first lab of the term yesterday in my introductory E&M class. This is the first time I’ve taught out of this book (Matter & Interactions by Chabay and Sherwood), which actually includes the basic elements of this lab as suggested activities in the second chapter of the text. The lab was more… Continue reading The Sticky Tape Lab
The Cost of Not Framing
In the comments to yesterday’s post about framing, Damian offers a long comment that doesn’t actually contradict anything I said, but re-frames it in terms more complimentary to the Dawkins/ Myers side of things. I may deal with some of what he says over there (probably not today, though, as I have a class to… Continue reading The Cost of Not Framing