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Month: September 2008
Drop and Give Me Twenty
Baby push-ups! She can’t maintain it for all that long, but SteelyKid can manage to push herself up and take a look around, when placed on her stomach. This is definite progress from a week or so ago.
Science Majors Follow-Up
I meant to follow up on some of the comments to my post calling for more science majors last week, but we had some Issues Thursday night, and I didn’t get to it on Friday. There were a number of people making negative comments about things that weren’t quite what I was saying, though, and […]
How to Get Tenure: Stop Worrying About Tenure
Your must-read academic link of the week is today’s Inside Higher Ed article by Gary Lewandoski, with the provocative title: Stop Trying to Get Tenure and Start Trying to Enjoy Yourself. His thesis is pretty much clear from the title: When I started my own tenure-track position I had the same questions. I perused published […]
links for 2008-09-22
Making kinematics graphs in Excel | Dot Physics Important tips on making a graph with Excel. (tags: physics education computing blogs science) Robert Hughes on Damien Hirst’s upcoming Sotheby’s auction | Art and design | The Guardian "Where you see Hirsts you will also see Jeff Koons’s balloons, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s stoned scribbles, Richard Prince’s feeble […]
Cocktail Party Variance
With the LHC starting up last week, this week’s Saturday science video on bloggingheads.tv had a physics theme, with Sean and Jennifer getting together to chat about physics, calculus, and poker. It’s good stuff, and I was surprised to hear my own name appear in the middle of it. Unfortunately, the idea Jennifer cites me […]
The Football Factor
Charles Kuffner is the latest to note that people would rather watch football with Obama than McCain. As always, they try to delve into the reasons: “I think he’d be fun to sit back with and hear his experiences, all his stories,” said Kyle Ferguson, 28, a Republican from Santa Rosa, Calif., who picked McCain. […]
Yemen
And now, a report from Uncertain Principles’s Senior Middle East Correspondent, checking in from Yemen in the wake of the attack on the US Embassy there: For years, the Yemeni government has let some al-Qaida figures and other Islamic extremists go free in political deals hoping to keep them quiet. Now it finds itself having […]
The Liberal Media Hasten the Red Revolution
… at least, that’s the only reason I can think of for ABC News to run a story on the effects of the financial crisis containing the following: “A lot of those people will have to sell their homes, they’re going to cut back on the private jets and the vacations. They may even have […]
links for 2008-09-21
HAMLET (FACEBOOK NEWS FEED EDITION). Written by Sarah Schmelling. "Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind." (tags: books literature internet silly culture pictures) BBspot – Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute Ready to Start “Squirrel Smasher” "Scientists currently rely on computer simulations to smash biological units, but simulations can only do so […]