Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Schrodinger’s job interview. (tags: silly physics history comics smbc) NASA Space Games | Wired Science | Wired.com “The future is now. NASA wants to start playing space games. Check out this NASA Spaced Out Sports Design Challenge. Unfortunately, the challenge is geared towards grades 5-8, but I can’t help thinking about this.… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-06
Author: Chad Orzel
DonorsChoose 2010: The Final Days
I haven’t been flogging it as hard as in some past years, but the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge is still going on, though it wraps up on Tuesday. To date, we’ve raised just over $1,300 to support education in needy schools, which is great, and thanks to all those who have donated. If you haven’t donated… Continue reading DonorsChoose 2010: The Final Days
Physics Is All About Analogies
Regular commenter onymous left a comment to my review of Warped Passages that struck me as a little odd: The extended analogy between the renormalization group and a bureaucracy convinced me that she was trying way too hard to make sophisticated concepts comprehensible. Also, I’m not really sure that analogies are the best way to… Continue reading Physics Is All About Analogies
Links for 2010-11-05
Five close-approach images of Hartley 2 by Deep Impact, with commentary – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society “Here’s the five close-approach images of Hartley 2 captured today, November 4, 2010, by the Deep Impact spacecraft, collected into one file. Boy, do these images reward close examination!” (tags: science astronomy pictures space blogs… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-05
Thursday Toddler Blogging 110410
Welcome to this very-carefully-posed edition of Thursday Toddler Blogging: That’s Kate and SteelyKid reading The Cat in the Hat,shot from a slightly odd angle so as to hide the wicked shiner that SteelyKid is sporting, thanks to a tumble down the stairs on Tuesday morning (while I was getting ready to take her to the… Continue reading Thursday Toddler Blogging 110410
How to Teach Physics to Your Spanish Dog
I can’t resist interrupting the relatively productive day I’m having working on the new book to point you to Conversación de fÃsica con mi perro, the Spanish-language edtion of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, which sports this spiffy cover: I haven’t seen a physical copy of this yet, but the vanity search turned… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Spanish Dog
The Unexpected Leaping Ability of Bovines
I’m spending the day trying to get some work done on the book-in-progress, so I’m avoiding both work- and blog-related stuff. I don’t want to leave the site completely quiet, though, so here’s a question to ponder, relating to SteelyKid’s continuing fascination with Goodnight Moon: How does a cow jump over the moon? The father… Continue reading The Unexpected Leaping Ability of Bovines
Links for 2010-11-04
Blog U.: 7 Ways College Has Improved Since 91 – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed “We spend so much time worrying about what is wrong with our U.S. higher ed system that it is easy to lose sight of how much the system has improved over the past 20 years. This is a… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-04
Massive Giveaway: Guess the Number, Win a Book
In a case of poor communication between publicists, I have ended up with not one but two advance copies of Massive by Ian Sample, a forthcoming book about the Higgs Boson. As I barely have time to read one, I don’t remotely need two; thus, I will dispose of one with a really simple contest:… Continue reading Massive Giveaway: Guess the Number, Win a Book
Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
I have nothing useful or interesting to say about electoral politics, but I suspect that’s all people will want to read about today. So here’s a book post that’s been backlogged for quite a while. Lisa Randall’s Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions dates from 2005, and was, I think, part… Continue reading Warped Passages by Lisa Randall