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Month: December 2009
Links for 2009-12-04
All Of You Industrial Scientists: Out Of the Room. In the Pipeline: “It looks as if the accreditation groups decided that they were faced with a choice: commit themselves to judging what sorts of presentations should count for CE credit (which you might think was their job), or just toss out anything that has any… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-04
Thursday Baby Blogging 120309
It’s been a while since we had a sleeping-baby picture, so here’s SteelyKid at bedtime last night: I swear I wasn’t going for the Catherine Wheel album cover effect, but what can you do? SteelyKid and I are off to Boston today, where she’ll be visiting her grandmother while I head up to Maine to… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 120309
Why the Record Industry Sucks, Aleph-nought in a Series
As a companion piece to Steve Albini’s famous rant about how the pop music industry systematically screws its artist, theToo Much Joy blog provides a look at their royalty statement: I got something in the mail last week I’d been wanting for years: a Too Much Joy royalty statement from Warner Brothers that finally included… Continue reading Why the Record Industry Sucks, Aleph-nought in a Series
Correlation, Causation, and Reputation
I spent an inordinate amount of time yesterday reading an economics paper, specifically the one about academic salaries and reputations mentioned on the Freakonomics blog. There’s a pdf available from that post, if you’d like to read it for yourself. The basic idea is that they looked at the publication records of several hundred full… Continue reading Correlation, Causation, and Reputation
Links for 2009-12-03
The Science and Entertainment Exchange: The X-Change Files: Holy Concussive Incident, Batman “Batman takes a lot of blows to his head. These come from his fighting activities and from being routinely thrown–or leaping–onto or into hard objects like walls, floors, and moving vehicles. The issue of concussion in Batman’s career is something I addressed in… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-03
Using Molecules to Search for New Physics
I’ve made a couple of oblique references to this over the past couple of months, but I have an article in the new issue of Physics World, on experiments using molecules to search for an electric dipole moment of the electron: When most of us think about searching for physics beyond the Standard Model –… Continue reading Using Molecules to Search for New Physics
On Scandalous Emails
The big topic-of-the-moment is the hacked stash of emails from a major climate research group. The whole climate change discussion is one of those “no upside” topics that I try to stay out of, but I have some thoughts and comments about issues surrounding the email incident. These are largely based on reactions to yesterday’s… Continue reading On Scandalous Emails
Links for 2009-12-02
AMC – Blogs – SciFi Scanner – A Cinematic Voyage Through Hollywood’s SciFi Solar System Our solar system is a wondrous and frightful venue, and from the magmatic center of the sun to the ghost ships orbiting Neptune, Hollywood has explored it all. Join us for a cinematic voyage through the scifi solar system, which… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-02
The Bohr-Einstein Debates, With Puppets
Back during the DonorsChoose fundraiser, I promised to do a re-enactment of the Bohr-Einstein debates using puppets if you contributed enough to claim $2,000 of the Hewlett-Packard contribution to the Social Media Challenge. I obviously aimed too low, because the final take was $4064.70, more than twice the threshold for a puppet show. So, I… Continue reading The Bohr-Einstein Debates, With Puppets