Over at View from the Corner, Mary is planning to run the Chicago marathon, and raising money for charity in the process. Her charity is the Union League Boys and Girls Club, and it looks like they do some good stuff. If you’ve got some disposable income burning a hole in your pocket, and want… Continue reading Run, Physicist, Run
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links for 2008-06-03
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe “Six more weeks of winter.” (tags: kid-stuff silly comics) Stanford Law Drops Letter Grades :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs “Those who support the change at Stanford argue that shifting from the precision of… Continue reading links for 2008-06-03
DAMOP Wrap-Up
I thought about tacking this onto the end of the previous post, but decided it deserved a space of its own. So, how was the meeting on the whole? All in all, I thought it was a very good meeting. There wasn’t anything stunning and new in the talks that I saw– there were some… Continue reading DAMOP Wrap-Up
DAMOP Day 3
I’ll get to the much-delayed Friday summary shortly. But first, the Nerds of the Purple Cow: That picture (courtesy of Justin Brown) shows twelve of the thirteen Williams graduates attending this year’s DAMOP, in order of class year, from Paul Hess ’08 on the left (who technically only graduated yesterday) to Tom Gallagher of UVA… Continue reading DAMOP Day 3
links for 2008-06-02
The gallery of failed atomic models, 1903-1913 « Skulls in the Stars ” Most people in physics are taught Thomson’s ‘plum pudding’ model of the atom, but a little investigating* turned up no less than eight distinct pictures of atomic structure.” (tags: physics science atoms history blogs) Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog.… Continue reading links for 2008-06-02
Arbitrary Numerical Signifier
Six years ago today, to within a few hours: It’s been good so far, I think we’ll stick with it a while longer… If you’d like to see more evidence that Kate’s way too good to me, here’s a picture taken today:
On the Road Again
The scientific program at DAMOP runs three and a half days– Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and only in the morning on Saturday. The weather for the first three days was spectacular– glorious, sunny late spring days, with clear blue skies and pleasant breezes. And, of course, I spent the vast majority of that time indoors in… Continue reading On the Road Again
Fines Doubled in Work Areas
This year’s DAMOP meeting is in State College PA, which has good and bad points. It’s not exactly a tourist Mecca, but then that means I won’t feel bad spending all day in physics talks. It’s also probably relatively cheap, unlike Calgary last year. But the most important feature of the location is that it’s… Continue reading Fines Doubled in Work Areas
DAMOP Day 2
I spent a whole bunch of time running around between talks on Thursday, and at one point was grumbling to myself about the way the organizers had scheduled all the good stuff at one time. Only later did I realize that it really wasn’t their fault– it’s all good stuff, and there are only a… Continue reading DAMOP Day 2
The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
If you’re reading this shortly after it’s posted, you may notice ads for this book popping up in the sidebar and on top of the page. This is probably not entirely a happy coincidence– I was offered a review copy in email from the author and his publisher, and I suspect that they had ScienceBlogs… Continue reading The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow