For this week’s Baby Blogging, SteelyKid shows off the latest look for the baby on the go: In this picture, she’s all set to face a busy day at day care. She’s in her car seat, with the dangling toys on the handle (Left to right, a rattling snail, a butterfly with crinkly wings, and… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 022609
Author: Chad Orzel
What Do You Do Well?
ScienceWoman offers a good discussion question: You are in a room with a bunch of other female faculty/post-docs/grad students from your university. You know a few of them, but most of them are unfamiliar to you. The convener of the meeting asks each of you to introduce yourself by answering the following question: “What is… Continue reading What Do You Do Well?
Bacon: Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
Prior to SteelyKid’s arrival, the “Pasta with Butter, Sage, and Parmesan” recipe from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything had become one of our staple recipes. It’s dead simple to make, we always have the stuff on hand (I’ve been planting sage in pots outside for the last couple of years), and it’s very tasty.… Continue reading Bacon: Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
links for 2009-02-26
The Problem of Pretension. « The Internet Food Association Is it pretentious to insist on fresh food for school lunches? (tags: food politics class-war) the physics arXiv blog » Blog Archive » Calculating the cost of dirty bombs Basically the same analysis that’s in "Physics for Future Presidents," with some added financial figures. Bottom line:… Continue reading links for 2009-02-26
Photons Are Particles
Over at Dot Physics, Rhett is taking another whack at photons. If you recall, the last time he did this wasn’t too successful, and this round fares no better: So back to the photon. In my original post I made the claim that the photoelectric effect is not a great experiment to show photons. Maybe… Continue reading Photons Are Particles
The Down Side of President Obama
Now that we have a President who is smart, articulate, and has the best interests of the country in mind, I feel compelled to actually watch his major speeches, like last night’s not-really-the-State-of-the-Union address. It’s a small price to pay for having a President who speaks to the nation as if we were rational adults,… Continue reading The Down Side of President Obama
links for 2009-02-25
slacktivist: Saving newspapers "I’m glad at least though that Time and Isaacson are trying to deal with the question of newspapers’ survival. That’s more than I can say for many of the newspapers themselves. Take for example my employer, the largest newspaper chain in the country. They own dozens of newspapers, small and large, which… Continue reading links for 2009-02-25
Award-Winning Science Writing
The winners of the American Physical Society’s Science Writing Awards for 2008 were announced today: Ann Finkbeiner won in the Journalist category for The Jasons, her book about a secretive groups of scientists who work on classified problems for the US government. Gino Segre won in the Scientist category, for Faust in Copenhagen, about the… Continue reading Award-Winning Science Writing
Academic Poll Results: Exam Reporting
the results from yesterday’s poll on reporting exam scores were pretty strongly divided. 47% favored giving histograms, or some very detailed breakdown, while 33% were in favor of statistical measures only (mean, standard deviation, extrema, that sort of thing). 19% were in favor of giving no collective information at all. My own usual practice is… Continue reading Academic Poll Results: Exam Reporting
Academic Poll Results: Formula Sheets
Tallying up the results of yesterday’s poll about formula sheets (as of 8:00 Tuesday morning, 39 total comments), people were overwhelmingly in favor of formula sheets. 72% of respondents reported being allowed to use formula sheets as students, and 69% were in favor of allowing formula sheets as faculty. A substantial number of the “no”… Continue reading Academic Poll Results: Formula Sheets