Syracuse head basketball coach Jim Boeheim won his 800th game last night. Fittingly, it was a thirty-point win over an overmatched New York school. Since winning the NCAA tournament in 2003, Boeheim has finally started to get some respect in the college basketball world. Before that, he was regarded as a choker who couldn’t win… Continue reading 800
Month: November 2009
Links for 2009-11-10
A New Spacecraft to Explore on Waves of Light – NYTimes.com “About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth. There in the vacuum it will unfurl four triangular sails as shiny as… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-10
Academic Poll: All Greek to Me
I am curious as to what people at other institutions think about “Greek organizations,” the slightly confusing catch-all term for fraternities and sororities (very few of whose members are ethnically Greek, and very few of whom know more Greek than a handful of the letters of the alphabet). Thus, a totally scientific poll on the… Continue reading Academic Poll: All Greek to Me
Why Editors Matter
There’s a nice post over at “The World in a Satin Bag” on the important things editors do. The emphasis is on fiction publishing, but most of it applies to non-fiction as well: Editors make you into a better writer. Emphasis on better. They don’t make you into the greatest writer ever, but they certainly… Continue reading Why Editors Matter
Links for 2009-11-09
The Mid-Majority : The Old Ways “Once the Union was preserved forever, the United States stopped worrying splitting into two. So with the late 1800’s came the combat-in-context of professional and amateur sports. If you’re looking for a reason why the South never rose again, it’s probably because it was too busy learning how to… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-09
Three Cheers for Global Warming
OK, fine. Today’s nice weather is well within the range of seasonal variation for New England. But after a chilly week or two, it was nice to get a chance to go to the park with SteelyKid, who definitely enjoyed it:
The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place
Via somebody on a mailing list, Eric Whiteacre’s virtual choir: The post I got this from doesn’t contain any details, nor does it contain useful links to the making of this particular video, but looking around the top level of the blog it’s fairly clear that this was put together from a large number of… Continue reading The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place
Links for 2009-11-08
On Denialism and the role of science in America. (1) – By Chris Mooney and Michael Specter – Slate Magazine A fourpart discussion on science, the media, and American society, featuring the authors of _The Republican War on Science_ and _Denialism_. (tags: science politics media journalism society culture medicine) The Peril of Palatability – Reason… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-08
Great Moments in Targeted Advertising
We subscribe to Locus, the SF review and news magazine, and every month when it arrives, I flip through it quickly to look at the ads. This is a useful guide to what’s coming out from various publishers, but it’s also kind of fascinating to see how the different publishers market their stuff. In particular,… Continue reading Great Moments in Targeted Advertising
Links for 2009-11-07
WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D. “This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-07