Chimping and Other Photo Tips – NYTimes.com “Last week, for my birthday, a friend bought me an amazing gift: a private photo lesson, taught by a professional. I know a lot about photography, and I’ve come a long way, but I’m not a pro. Tom Bear, on the other hand, is the ultimate pro; his […]
Month: March 2011
Hey, Ho, Northern Ohio
Just a quick reminder that I’ll be giving my “What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics” talk (same basic one from Tuesday night) as part of the Saturday Morning Science program (pdf) at the University of Toledo tomorrow, Saturday the 19th. The talk will be at 9:30, with breakfast beforehand. If you’re in the […]
Another Commercial… What Are the Odds?
This year’s NCAA tournament is being spread over four tv networks, so that every game is shown in its entirety. Previously, you got whatever game was deemed to hold the most interest for your region of the country, plus occasional looks in at games elsewhere, that usually managed to miss the most exciting bits. For […]
Know When to Do Nothing
There was a lot of great basketball yesterday, but I want to talk quickly about one small thing at the end of the Kentucky-Princeton game, that I think is kind of the basketball equivalent of the oft-debated punt on fourth-and-short in the opponents’ end in football. That is, it’s the wrong play, but also the […]
Links for 2011-03-18
The Virtuosi: Physics Challenge Award Show “So before we officially announce our winner, let’s backtrack and build up some suspense. The challenge was to come up with a bunch of MacGyveresque experiments to determine as closely as possible the standard second, meter and kilogram using only the materials handy to you on a desert [3] […]
Thursday Toddler Blogging 031711
SteelyKid is actually at Grandma and Grandpa’s this week, having a ball, and freeing Kate from having to do solo toddler duty for the days that I’m traveling. As a result, you get some week-old pics (though if Grandma and Grandpa send us a picture from this week, I’ll post it). Here we have an […]
NCAA Tournament: Play-Ins, Ratings, and Majors
The 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship officially started Tuesday, with the first of the “First Four” games, formerly known as the “play-in” game. It gets going in earnest today, though, which means that once this posts, I’ll be shutting the Internet down and working like crazy for a few hours, so I can justify moving […]
Links for 2011-03-17
What we know, and don’t know, about Japan’s reactors “In response to the confusion, speculation and apprehension surrounding the rapidly unfolding events at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the aftermath of last week’s earthquake and tsunami, a panel of MIT nuclear engineering, public health and risk assessment specialists convened on Tuesday to explain […]
Musical Poll: Sisters
I got home very late last night after my talk in New Paltz, the cold that I’ve been developing for the last week has hit full strength, and I’m giving an exam this morning. So here’s something completely silly: Which sister do you prefer?Market Research For bonus points, guess which of these songs I have […]
Links for 2011-03-16
Who Benefits Most From Attending Top Colleges? – Innovations – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Now [Stacy] Dale, a senior researcher with Mathematica Policy Research, and [Alan] Krueger, a professor at Princeton University, are back with an extension of their earlier research, examining earnings over a longer period of time, looking also at a second […]