While waiting for SteelyKid to stop bouncing off the walls long enough to be put to bed last night, I watched a bit of the Jets losing to the Ravens on Monday Night Football. I saw most of the first half, and the end of the fourth quarter, and I noticed the announcers talking a […]
Month: September 2010
Now THAT’S a Noble Cause: Restoring Truthiness
Via Tom, the folks pushing for a Stephen Colbert rally on the Mall in DC (because if a clown like Glen Beck can do it, why not an actual comedian?) have found a uniquely useful way to try to boost their signal: encouraging charitable donations: See, anyone can join a reddit or Facebook group or […]
Links for 2010-09-14
Geocentrism: Was Galileo Wrong? : Starts With A Bang No. An exhaustive explanation of how we know the Earth goes around the Sun. (tags: science astronomy physics planets blogs starts-with-bang stupid education) Testing, the Chinese Way – NYTimes.com “Professor Cizek, who started his career as a second-grade teacher, said the prevailing philosophy of offering young […]
Quantum Statistical Poll: Favorite Boson?
A fairly straightforward question: quantum physicists divide the world into two categories of things, fermions and bosons. What’s your favorite object having integer spin? What’s your favorite boson?online survey Superpositions of answers, while allowed in properly symmetrized wavefunctions, are not valid responses to this poll.
Packaging Technology… of the Future!
I needed a band-aid this morning, and when I was getting it out, it occurred to me that there are some subtle details of packaging technology that pretty clearly mark this as the future, not the past. I’m not sure when the transition was, but if you’re around my age or older, you can probably […]
She’s a Big Girl Now
SteelyKid returns today from her weekend at Grandma and Grandpa’s, and there’s going to be a surprise waiting for her: She hadn’t exactly outgrown her crib yet, but she was getting kind of big for it, so we decided to move her to a big girl bed. It’s a “captain’s bed” with drawers underneath the […]
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Well? Are you? Are you ready for some football?survey software
Short Story Club: “A Serpent in the Gears” by Margaret Ronald
I do intend to keep reading and commenting on the stories for Torque Control’s Short Story Club, but I missed last week’s because I couldn’t really think of anything to say about it. The story was nicely written, and all, but it’s just kind of… there. This week’s post was delayed by my annual day […]
Links for 2010-09-12
R.W. Wood’s lecture demonstrations (1897-1905) | Skulls in the Stars In the early years of the 20th century, however, the most important physics journals published in English were the Philosophical Magazine and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Truly important results would appear in those journals first, and Physical Review was a second or […]