When I went to bed last night, I thought the crucial moment of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game was Bill Self’s mystifying decision to go to a box-and-one on Chris Douglas-Roberts in the middle of the second half. That’s because I went to be lat night with two minutes to play and Memphis up… Continue reading Rock, Chalk, Championship
Author: Chad Orzel
links for 2008-04-08
Administrating « Confused at a higher level “Why did I say yes to the Dean when he asked whether I would take on this position? He made the request/offer to me a week after calling me to let me know I had tenure — he claimed that this gave me a fair shot at saying… Continue reading links for 2008-04-08
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Having brought in a huge new audience at the end of last week– partly through the “framing”/”screechy monkeys” things, but mostly because my What Everyone Should Know About Science post hit the front page on Reddit– I figured I should take this opportunity to… Well, drive them all right the hell away again with a… Continue reading Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Moderation, Not Apathy
I had planned to let the current round of screechy-monkey-bashing die, but I woke up this morning to an accusation from commenter Andrew that I don’t want to leave unanswered: As for the blog – I’m not sure you are actually moderate really, it sounds more like vaguely apathetic. Or more accurately (and without the… Continue reading Moderation, Not Apathy
We’re All Gonna Freeze!!!
When I was talking to my parents on the phone last night, my father told me about a guest op-ed in the Press and Sun-Bulletin that might be of interest to some ScienceBlogs readers and bloggers: As if there aren’t enough problems in the world, we are now on the verge of a phenomenon that… Continue reading We’re All Gonna Freeze!!!
links for 2008-04-07
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop – New York Times “To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. “ (tags: blogs writing journalism society culture computing internet) Calorimeters for High Energy Physics… Continue reading links for 2008-04-07
Hoisted from Comments: Moderate, or Linearly Independent?
Stealing a post-generating method from Brad DeLong, Bill Tozier posted and interesting comment that I wanted to highlight: I’ve often wondered why people place me (a moderate in a lot of polarized debates) “in the middle”. I think I’m orthogonal, not “in the middle”. I’m concerned about plenty of things; they’re just not what’s being… Continue reading Hoisted from Comments: Moderate, or Linearly Independent?
Jazz Recommendations?
I’m looking for some recommendations of music in the instrumental jazz sort of vein, and I figure this is an area in which the Internet knows more than I do. I have some fairly idiosyncratic constraints, though, so please read the whole post before recommending stuff in comments. Background: For reasons that don’t bear going… Continue reading Jazz Recommendations?
Down to Two (UCLA-Memphis, UNC-Kansas)
Well, that was certainly an odd pair of national semifinal games. They were very similar in some ways– Memphis ran circles around UCLA from start to finish, and Kansas did the same to UNC, save for a ten- or fifteen- minute stretch in the middle of the game. I watched very little of the Memphis-UCLA… Continue reading Down to Two (UCLA-Memphis, UNC-Kansas)
links for 2008-04-06
PHD Comics: Campus architecture “Sure, the could have built three building for the same price, but those buildings would be functional and non-leaking.” (tags: academia comics silly) Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing “I once met a lady named Rodana. I think she runs a successful internet business.” “In her spare time she destroys Tokyo.”… Continue reading links for 2008-04-06