Here’s an extremely dorky Dorky Poll topic. I can’t believe I haven’t used this one before: What sort of particles do you prefer?(poll) Choose only one.
Month: October 2009
Links for 2009-10-28
Op-Ed Contributor – Bring Back Basketball’s Little Big Men – NYTimes.com “[I]f the N.C.A.A. truly cared about improving colleges instead of settling for the extra year before eligibility that Stern is talking about, it should use its considerable influence to demand that both the N.B.A. and N.F.L. foot the college’s bill for training pro athletes […]
Book Poll
There’s a new release today that everyone’s talking about. A perfect topic for a poll: New Jordan book by Sanderson! Your reaction?(survey) Your opinion is important to us, so please choose carefully.
Lectures Are a Small Part of Learning
FriendFeed and Twitter are a terrific source of articles about how New Media technologies are Changing Everything. The latest example is Sebastian Paquet’s The Fate of the Incompetent Teacher in the YouTube Era, in which he declares that the recorded lectures of Salman Khan are the beginning of the end for bad teachers: Even assuming, […]
Links for 2009-10-27
Elements I Have Yet to Use. In the Pipeline: “I wrote about this topic a few years ago, and thought I’d update it. Many chemists find themselves looking at a periodic table and wondering “How many of these things have I personally handled?” My list is up to nearly 45 elements (there are a couple […]
Quasi Poll: Phone Call from the Future
I’m kind of in a fog today, which I’m choosing to attribute to airport lag (it can’t be jet lag, because I didn’t change time zones, but you get some of the same disorientation from spending too much time in airports and on planes), because the other option is incipient flu (half a dozen students […]
Links for 2009-10-26
Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt – NYTimes.com “Agincourt’s status as perhaps the greatest victory against overwhelming odds in military history — and a keystone of the English self-image — has been called into doubt by a group of historians in Britain and France who have painstakingly combed an array of military and tax records from […]
Communicating Science in the 21st Century
My panel on “Communicating Science in the 21st Century” was last night at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival at the Perimeter Institute. I haven’t watched the video yet– Canadian telecommunications technology hates me, and I’m lucky to get a wireless connection to stay up for more than ten minutes– but if the video feeds I’ve […]
Links for 2009-10-25
Quantum Physics in 60 Minutes Damian Pope’s talk at the Quantum to Cosmos festival. I’m tempted to steal the grain of sand thing. (tags: science physics video education quantum) Atlas Sucked — Crooked Timber “[I]t does raise the question of whether there are any genuinely good, genuinely political novels out there. Since we’re coming up […]
Links for 2009-10-24
Deep Physics : Built on Facts You can think of the earth’s surface in New Mexico as subject to two superimposed sinusoidal periodic heat pulses. One has a period of 24 hours and corresponds to the heat rising and falling over the day/night cycle. The other has a period of 1 year and corresponds to […]