Arcane Gazebo provides a picture of a giant blue bear, a few notes on talks about quantum computing, and thoughts on the Kook Session.(*)
Cocktail Party Physics offers thoughts on Irish giants and large-scale pattern formation in geological systems.
Physics World offers three posts: on carbon-trapping windmills, the physics of icicles, and the 20th anniversary of Woodstock.
Know of any other reports from the meeting? Leave a link in the comments.
(* – Background for non-APS types: The American Physical Society meetings accept essentially all contributed abstracts, even the ones from crazy people. As a result, any big APS meeting tends to have ten or so lunatics on the list of speakers, and the people who put the program together tend to collect them all into a single session at an inconvenient time– usually late afternoon (the session Travis talks about was at 4:30), or on the last day, when people are leaving to catch flights out. Sometimes they’re downgraded to poster presentations– at last year’s DAMOP, all the kooks seemed be be assigned to one of the poster sessions, and given display-board locations that didn’t actually exist, because none of them showed up…)