The murky water of chastising and celebrating NFL violence – Grantland Of course, it’s 2012 — the Year of Internet Self-Righteousness — which means we need to feign disgust, pile on the Saints, argue for Williams to receive the NFL’s death penalty and basically freak out that a football coach would ever do that. So… Continue reading Links for 2012-04-07
Month: April 2012
Musical Poll: Lyrical Crimes
I’m killing time waiting for something I can’t talk about yet, so here’s a silly poll to pass the time, brought to you by a couple of songs served up on the radio this morning while I was running errands: Which of these awkward song lyrics is the worst lyrical crime against English grammar? I… Continue reading Musical Poll: Lyrical Crimes
The Story of the One Little Pig, the Nice Wolf, and Materials Science
I want a story. The story about one little pig, and the wolf. I’ll need you to help me with it, OK? Yeah. OK, once upon a time, there was one little pig, and he… What did he do? He built a house out of straw. Right. He was a little bit silly, so he… Continue reading The Story of the One Little Pig, the Nice Wolf, and Materials Science
Links for 2012-04-06
Texts from Hillary “So then I sent her a text saying I think I left my favorite sunglasses in the desk.” Swans on Tea » Do You Have My Back? So this whole “get back to doing science” kind of hits me where I live. I’ve seen budgetary fallout from recent events, and I know… Continue reading Links for 2012-04-06
Union College in the “Frozen Four”
While none of the college basketball teams I root for made the Final Four in their respective tournaments, I probably really ought to note that there is a team that might loosely be termed “mine” that’s playing in the national semifinal. Then again, since they’ve gotten this far without me saying anything about them at… Continue reading Union College in the “Frozen Four”
Impostors, Underdogs, and the Status of Science
Over in Scientopia, SciCurious has a nice post about suffering from Impostor Syndrome, the feeling that everyone else is smarter than you are, and you will soon be exposed as a total fraud. Which is nonsense, of course, but something that almost every scientist suffers at some point. The post ends on a more upbeat… Continue reading Impostors, Underdogs, and the Status of Science
Two Women-in-Science Notes
Two things I was forwarded or pointed toward this week, that interact a little oddly. First chronologically is from the New York Times, which has a story about how Harvey Mudd College has boosted the number of female computer science majors, by committing serious resources to reforming the intro course (which is required of all… Continue reading Two Women-in-Science Notes
Links for 2012-04-05
The Gravitational Force in Angry Birds Space | Wired Science | Wired.com As anyone that has played the game can tell you, this air looking stuff surrounding an asteroid defines a region in which the angry birds will interact with the rock. If the bird is outside of this region, there will be no force… Continue reading Links for 2012-04-05
Poll: Most Important Part of Physics?
Over in Twitterland, we have a question from WillyB: If you had to pick one topic to cover in Physics, which do you think is the most important for the gen. public? This sounds like a job for the Internet! To the polling machine! If you had to pick one topic to cover in Physics,… Continue reading Poll: Most Important Part of Physics?
Assyrian Books and Quote Chasing
While reading bits of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Space Chronicles yesterday, I ran across this quote, attributed to “an Assyrian clay tablet from 2800 BC”: Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents;… Continue reading Assyrian Books and Quote Chasing