“Black And Blue” | Homicide: Life On The Street | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club "Andre Braugher’s Pembleton is fiery and mercurial and theatrical, and he works so fast that it’s as if he thought that extracting false police confessions was a category recognized by the Guinness Book Of World Records. First,… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-13
Month: August 2011
Scientific Commuting: When Does It Make Sense to Take Alternate Routes?
I am an inveterate driver of “back ways” to places. My preferred route to campus involves driving through a whole bunch of residential streets, rather than taking the “main” road leading from our neighborhood to campus. I do this because there are four traffic lights on the main-road route, and they’re not well timed, so… Continue reading Scientific Commuting: When Does It Make Sense to Take Alternate Routes?
Academic Poll: Out of Cite
I’m sending a little pedagogical paper off to a journal today, and spent a while yesterday re-formatting it to meet their standards. This was particularly annoying for the references, as I had to go find a bunch of information that I don’t usually write down. Which seems like a good topic for a poll: A… Continue reading Academic Poll: Out of Cite
The Stupidest Thing You’ll Read Today
Shockingly, it does not seem to involve right-wing politics in any way. It’s this explanation of why swirling wine in your glass clockwise produces different effects than swirling it counter-clockwise. a sample: Like all living things wine cells have a magnetic polarity, just like humans and the Earth. The positive pole is more highly charged,… Continue reading The Stupidest Thing You’ll Read Today
Links for 2011-08-12
Your Picks: Top 100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR The usual mix of "pretty good" and "utterly preposterous" selections. Exposing a Fake Video Trick | Wired Science | Wired.com "You know I love videos that may or may not be fake. It gets me pumped up. Ok, here is a video. It is almost… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-12
Thursday Future Physicist Blogging 081111
It was another “no pictures” day today, so this shot is from earlier in the week, when SteelyKid got some birthday presents from my Aunt Norma and Uncle Dan: This shows her playing with the I Spy Preschool Game, which involves matching cards containing pictures of complicated collections of objects with other cards containing objects… Continue reading Thursday Future Physicist Blogging 081111
Resources for Physics Teaching
I continue to be distracted from the paper-writing that I really ought to be doing by thinking about my classes this fall, and Joss Ives isn’t helping. By being very helpful– he posted a nice list of resources for active teaching. His blog has a bunch of other interesting stuff, too. For the specific Matter… Continue reading Resources for Physics Teaching
Attention, Hollywood
Fred Clark has an idea for you: Start with the housekeeping staff at a Manhattan hotel. They’ve just learned that their next contract includes no raise, but doubles the employee share of the cost of health benefits. The Norma Rae of this bunch — let’s say Jennifer Lopez* — convinces them to strike, but they… Continue reading Attention, Hollywood
Scientists and Science Fiction
Yesterday was apparently Gender in Science day here, while the theme for today is Tab Clearance– a couple of shortish posts about things that deserve more than just a Links Dump mention, but don’t really cohere into any kind of grand synthesis of deep thoughts, or whatever. This particular link was prompted by an item… Continue reading Scientists and Science Fiction
Proposed New Rule
A well-known joke is “Rule 34” saying that anything that exists will have porn about it on the Internet. The introduction to this Inside Higher Ed piece about anti-law-school blogs reminds me that we probably need a higher-numbered rule stating that every field of human endeavor will also produce a bunch of blogs about how… Continue reading Proposed New Rule