The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 – Speed Read A two-minute explanation of this year’s prize. (tags: physics particles Nobel news science theory) The Collapse of Peer Review « The Scholarly Kitchen "Is peer review in decline? Glenn Ellison, an economist at MIT, is beginning to question the added value of being published in top… Continue reading links for 2008-10-09
Author: Chad Orzel
The Kibble Bubble
A Colbert Report re-run about the financial crisis has just ended, so I turn the tv off, grab my jacket and the leash, and head out for a walk with the dog. She’s oddly pensive as we head up the street. After a little while, she stops and asks, “What was that all about?” “All… Continue reading The Kibble Bubble
DonorsChoose: Sizzling Science
As the DonorsChoose fundraiser rolls along, I’m making an effort to highlight a few worthwhile proposals from my challenge entry, in case the lack of specificity is keeping people from donating. This time out, that’s the “Sizzling Science” proposal, from Broward County, FL. This description echoes sentiments that are frequently expressed here and elsewhere in… Continue reading DonorsChoose: Sizzling Science
Chemistry Nobel for Glowing Green Stuff
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for the discovery of green fluorescent protein. It’s split equally among three scientists, Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien (and just out of curiousity, how do they choose the order in which they list those names?). The citation just says “for the discovery and… Continue reading Chemistry Nobel for Glowing Green Stuff
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The full story of Earth-impacting asteroid 2008 TC3 – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society "All in all, I think the episode of 2008 TC3 has proven that the world’s astronomical community, at least, is prepared to respond when an object on a collision course is detected. Within just a few hours of… Continue reading links for 2008-10-08
Science Blogging: What Is It Good For?
I got some interesting comments on last week’s post about the science blogging bubble, and there were two in particular I wanted to highlight. Bee wrote (among other things): But what I think are further obstacle to blogging is the inappropriateness of the medium to science. E.g. blogs put by format an emphasis on novelty,… Continue reading Science Blogging: What Is It Good For?
What’s the Matter With Biologists?
Paul Ginsparg, the founder of the arxiv preprint server for physics, has a very nice article at Physics World reminiscing about the rise of the Internet, particularly in physics. This also serves as a nice counterpoint to his talk at the Science21 conference (video, microblogging), which included a wealth of fascinating information about the current… Continue reading What’s the Matter With Biologists?
Physics Nobel to Particle Theory
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been announced. Half will go to Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics,” with the other half split between Makoto Kobayahi and Toshihide Maskawa, “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at… Continue reading Physics Nobel to Particle Theory
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Interview with Chad Orzel It’s me, doing a blog interview on how I got into science, how I got into blogging, and the future of science outreach. (tags: science blogs physics academia) xkcd – A Webcomic – Depth Negative powers of ten, xkcd style. (tags: science comics xkcd) Seeing race and seeming racist? Whites go… Continue reading links for 2008-10-07
Obama Disappoints Me
I got email this morning from the Obama campaign, bearing news that will no doubt have the more rabidly partisan Democrats of blogdom dancing with glee: The Obama campaign as prepared a video about the Keating Five scandal (Wikipedia link, not the campaign video), and John McCain’s role in it. The video will be released… Continue reading Obama Disappoints Me