I’m heading to the airport right after my second class today (I’m doing two weeks of our first-year seminar class), to appear at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. This promises to be a good event– I had a great time at the Science in the 21st Century workshop last […]
Month: October 2009
CANNONBALLLLLLL!!!!!!
You sometimes hear people say that it’s good to make a splash when embarking on a new media project. David Sloan Wilson has apparently taken this to heart, and tucks himself into a tight ball as he leaps off the high board into the ScienceBlogs pool: Thinking of science as a religion that worships truth […]
Links for 2009-10-23
An Inside Look at the Physics GRE | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine “I am sworn to secrecy about a lot of the details, for good reason, but let me try to tell you from my perspective as an exam writer how to study for this dreaded event in your physics education.” (tags: science physics […]
Thursday Baby Blogging 102209
“Hey, SteelyKid, whatcha doin’?” “Nothin’. You know, hangin’ out.” “‘S’cool.” Just 63 weeks old, and already she’s got the exaggerated casual thing down… Happily, she’s not too cool to occasionally pose with her father:
DonorsChoose: Win Hewlett-Packard’s Money
This year’s DonorsChoose challenge is doing pretty well, with the total standing at a bit over $2,200. Thanks to all who have donated thus far. There’s a new development in this year’s challenge, which is that Hewlett-Packard is going to donate $200,000 to DonorsChoose, which will be divided among Social Media Challenge blogs in proportion […]
Academic Poll: How Much Should Students Write?
I’ve been buried in lab grading for a lot of this week, but I’m finally down to the last few stragglers. The experience has me thinking a bit about what we’re doing here, and talking to people in other departments, and it seems like a good question for my wise and worldly readers. At the […]
Sports and Music Poll: Super Bowl LIV
I’ve been up late all this week grading things, and I have lab all morning, so I’m not going to do any detailed blogging about subtle aspects of physics. So here’s something from the pop culture side: I was listening to Bill Simmons’s ESPN podcast with Chuck Klosterman yesterday, and at one point, they talk […]
Links for 2009-10-22
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: What to Expect: The Third Decade. “By thirty-years-old, your adult will probably be able to… Feed and maintain a house pet, Hold down a job, Maintain eye contact while speaking, Refrain from discussing high school, Cook a meal (three-course), Make small talk, Forgive his family, Acknowledge other viewpoints (social), Detect and respond […]
What Our CV’s Say About Our Profession
As mentioned on Twitter, I spent much of yesterday reading and rating a huge number of grant proposals. As such, I’ve looked at a lot of CV’s and resumes, and the contrast is striking. People who work in industry tend to use a resume format that is mostly just a list of jobs and degrees, […]
Links for 2009-10-21
Chairs : The Quantum Pontiff “Michael Green is the new Lucasian chair of Mathematics replacing the esteemed Stephen Hawking. Green helped sparked the great optimism in string theory by discovering with John Schwarz the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism. Elsewhere, the Perimeter Institute has named ten new distinguished research chairs, among them a host of the […]