YouTube – Inception in Real-Time All four levels of the dream caper synched up in one video clip. (tags: movies video youtube culture) Making omelettes inside of eggshells – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Weirdly fascinating food geek blogging. “Weirdly,” because I don’t like eggs at all, and yet I read this whole article about ridiculous… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-08
Month: December 2010
Two Cultures Within Science
The great British physicist Ernest Rutherford once said “In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.” This is kind of the ultimate example of the arrogance of physicists, given a lovely ironic twist by the fact that when Rutherford won a Nobel Prize, it was in Chemistry. (He won for discovering… Continue reading Two Cultures Within Science
Links for 2010-12-07
Locus Online: Locus Magazine Digital Editions “Starting January 2011, we will be launching our first digital editions of Locus magazine. Subscriptions will be available in, at minimum, PDF format, and we hope to have e-pub and Kindle versions also. We plan to primarily distribute from our own website, though we will be looking into other… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-07
Teleportation of Toddler Toys
Today is the official release date for the paperback edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, so I wanted to write up something cool about quantum physics to mark the occasion. I looked around the house for inspiration, and most of what we have lying around the house is SteelyKid’s toys. Thus, I… Continue reading Teleportation of Toddler Toys
Links for 2010-12-07
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Research Design in a Recession “My college is planning a major student survey for the Spring. We’re drawing up questions that we think could help shape budget priorities over the next few years, assuming there’s actually enough money to have some level of discretion. (That’s far from certain.) We’ve… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-07
Dorky Poll: How Do You Say That Again?
I’m going to be at a media training session for most of the day. I had hoped to have a long and silly post about physics to schedule today, but, well, that didn’t happen. So here’s a silly poll to pass the time. The name of element number 13, chemical symbol Al, is pronounced with… Continue reading Dorky Poll: How Do You Say That Again?
Links for 2010-12-06
Surviving the World – Lesson 821 – Santa Claus Many Worlds, many presents. (tags: comics surviving-world physics silly quantum science) On jargon, and why it matters in science writing | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine “The bottom line is that you educate people by explaining complex ideas in a simple way, not by… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-06
Links for 2010-12-05
YouTube – MST3K – Patrick Swayze Christmas A carol to move the hardest of hearts… (tags: silly music movies television youtube video) Not Even Not Even Wrong – Stephen Hawking’s The Grand Design : Built on Facts “Isaac Newton, when he wasn’t revolutionizing mathematics and almost single-handedly inventing physics as a systematic discipline, wrote some… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-05
25 Years of Great Albums
It feels a little weird not to be doing a Short Story Club entry, so here’s a different sort of pop culture item: Over at EphBlog, my classmate Derek Catsam has decided to break up the carnival of reactionary politics by commenting on great albums, jumping off from Spin‘s Top 125 of the Last 25… Continue reading 25 Years of Great Albums
Links for 2010-12-04
The 12 Days of Christmas | The Language of Bad Physics “On the fifth day of Christmas, My PI gave to me: Five Ci-ta-tions… 4 revisions, 3 rejected drafts, 2 data sets, And a pile of papers to read.” (tags: academia education silly music blogs kavassalis) A is for Ackbar | brandonpeat.com “When my wife… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-04