Let’s Play a Game, Part 2: Game Trees and Totally Finite Games « Intrinsically Knotted Classifying games based on possible moves and winning strategies. (tags: math science academia games) …yet I’ll hammer it out The Mentally Scarring Public Service Announcement Tournament. With YouTube links, so you can experience the trauma yourself. (tags: youtube video television… Continue reading links for 2008-03-09
Author: Chad Orzel
Magazine Etiquette in Medicine
Dave Munger has been spending a lot of time in waiting rooms: When it comes to waiting rooms, it turns out, eye doctors wipe the floor with everyone else’s ass. Not only does the eye doctor have the least shabby interior decor, it also arguably offers the best selection of reading material and visual entertainment… Continue reading Magazine Etiquette in Medicine
Do You Feel Super?
ScienceBlogs is launching a new “Super Reader” program, where each blogger can nominate two readers as “Super Readers” who will be given the ability to tag three posts a week from all of ScienceBlogs for a special RSS feed (this will be done using del.icio.us). This is envisioned as a first step toward greater interactivity… Continue reading Do You Feel Super?
links for 2008-03-08
The Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club: Rollin’ With Dre | The A.V. Club “I will read all these terrible books so you don’t have to. It’s my latest attempt to transform the stupid, pointless shit I do in my free time into the stupid, pointless shit I am obligated do for my job.” (tags: books… Continue reading links for 2008-03-08
Vacation Dog Blogging #4
Today is the last day of our trip, so here’s a shot of Her Majesty showing off her regal side. Of course, the snow on her muzzle kind of undercuts the dignified affect…
What a Drag It Is Getting Old
SportsCenter this morning is basically a big Favre-a-thon, with wall-to-wall coverage of Brett Favre’s tearful retirement press conference yesterday. I watched the footage of him choking up, and said “Yeah, he does look pretty old. Probably time to hang it up.” Then I realized: He’s less than two years older than I am. I guess… Continue reading What a Drag It Is Getting Old
links for 2008-03-07
nanoscale views: Reviewing- why, how, and how often? “well written, thorough, timely referee reports almost always improve the quality of scientific papers” (tags: academia science physics articles writing) Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Long-dreaded politics post “[A]fter seven years of Bush, to ask whether I’d “prefer” Hillary or Obama is like asking a drowning person… Continue reading links for 2008-03-07
Vacation Dog Blogging #3
Day three of our vacation, and another Action Dog! shot: Here, Emmy demonstrates that among her other superlative qualities, she is exceptionally strong and stubborn. This is a good shot of the Kong Wubba, as well.
links for 2008-03-06
The Quantum Pontiff : Twins in Donut Space Mmmmmm…. Paradoxical Donuts…… (tags: physics relativity theory) Laelaps : Preaching to the choir “Has there ever been a time when science has been highly valued by the general public? “ (tags: science society class-war culture history) Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time – tech – 04… Continue reading links for 2008-03-06
Dorky Poll: Talk or Poster?
The Female Science Professor is thinking about conferences: Some scientific conferences are dominated by talks and some are comprised of talks + poster presentations. At conferences with talks and posters, it varies from conference to conference as to whether talks are more prestigious or whether it doesn’t matter very much because there are so many… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Talk or Poster?