Author: Chad Orzel

Scientific Pub Crawl: A Tour of the Great Discoveries

Over on LiveJournal, Johan Larson has a great discussion topic: Our hero, the time traveling engineer, starts out in 1901, with the goal of working on the coolest engineering projects of the twentieth century. Assuming he knows well the history of technical development during that time, but is not actually allowed to substantially alter history,… Continue reading Scientific Pub Crawl: A Tour of the Great Discoveries

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links for 2008-08-25

Evolving Thoughts: The real Olympic performers "[U]sing the Wikipedia population figures and the official medal tally, I plotted gold medals per million population and medals overall per million population" (tags: sports blogs silly) Why You Should Turn Gmail s SSL Feature On Now – Webmonkey "Browser Connection" in your GMail settings– set it to "Always… Continue reading links for 2008-08-25

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The Transitive Property

Total strangers keep congratulating me on the birth of SteelyKid. No, not people on the Internet, people in real life. We have a standard dog-walking route that we take Emmy on every night, and Kate and I usually do the evening walk together. Of course, Kate’s not coming along on those now, and now people… Continue reading The Transitive Property

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Curiosity

Curious Baby says “I wonder what happens when I press this?” She’s going to end up a scientist, like her old man…

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DFL: Getting to the Games: A Reality Check "A common misconception — a result, no doubt, of the countless stories about Eddie the Eagle and Eric the Eel — is that it’s not that hard to qualify for the Olympics, if you pick your sports and countries shrewdly." (tags: sports blogs) Methodist advocates evolution |… Continue reading links for 2008-08-24

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Memo to Windows Vista

To: Windows Vista From: Chateau Steelypips Please note that when I change your settings, I do it for a reason. You do not need to be aware of the reason, just know that there is one. In particular, when I change the “Windows Update” setting to something other than “Install updates and automatically restart any… Continue reading Memo to Windows Vista

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links for 2008-08-23

Great Olympic moments on YouTube "One of the best ways to watch the Olympics is to chase down all the references made by NBC’s commentators on YouTube and watch them in addition to (or instead of) the regular telecast. " (tags: video sports youtube history)

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Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Muller

Every time I mention the idea of teaching physics to a wider audience than just physics majors, somebody brings up Richard Muller’s course, “Physics for Future Presidents,” at Berkeley. So, I was pleased to find out that he has turned the course into a book, also titled Physics for Future Presidents, with the subtitle “The… Continue reading Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Muller