Technorati is working less and less well these days– it doesn’t update as often as it should, and misses links that I know are there– but it’s still good for the occasional new find. Such as Susan Beckhardt’s Intrinsically Knotted, which features among other things a really nice post about mathematical games: We’re going to… Continue reading Hyper Games, Small World
Author: Chad Orzel
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Little Brother is Cory Doctorow’s bid for a place on this year’s list of banned books. It’s a book that not only encourages kids to hack computers, commit vandalism, and thwart law enforcement, it gives them detailed instructions on the best ways to do those things. It even comes with two afterwords and a bibliography… Continue reading Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
links for 2008-03-02
Stephen Huneck Gallery at Dog Mountain Vermont ” I wanted to build a chapel, one that celebrated the spiritual bond we have with our dogs, and that would be open to dogs and people. People of any faith or belief system.” (tags: dog religion art animals) Such Madness – New York Times Let the hype… Continue reading links for 2008-03-02
Ybor City is Tres Speedy, But They Throw Such Killer Parties
Via Orac, a religious movement I think we can all get behind: Pastor Wants 30 Days of Sex for Couples The pastor for Relevant Church in Ybor City is challenging the couples in his congregation to get busy in bed every night for a month. Wirth said the supposed 50 percent divorce rate is the… Continue reading Ybor City is Tres Speedy, But They Throw Such Killer Parties
“Story of Your Life” Guest Lecture
The Science Fiction class for which I agreed to guest lecture is an 8am class, which is earlier than I like to be up and about. Knowing this, I went to bed early on Thursday night. Of course, being a bookaholic of long standing, I needed something to read to put me to sleep. Genius… Continue reading “Story of Your Life” Guest Lecture
Dinner With ΔKE
As mentioned previously, I was invited to discuss physics and politics at one of the local fraternities earlier this week. Oddly, given the primacy of Greek organizations on campus, this is only the fourth time I’ve set foot inside a fraternity or sorority house in seven years. The previous occasions were times when I was… Continue reading Dinner With ΔKE
links for 2008-03-01
slacktivist: More on subsidiarity “[W]here it exists here in America, inefficient Big Government tends to be the direct and predictable result of anti-regulation, anti-government laissez-faire and libertarian-ish ideologies” (tags: economics politics US society) Second Law of Thermodynamics with Discrete Quantum Feedback Control You still can’t win, but you can do a little better than with… Continue reading links for 2008-03-01
Experimental Physics for Morons, #47
I spent the bulk of yesterday afternoon doing vacuum system work, specifically working on the system to feed gas into the atomic beam source. My feelings about this can be inferred from the Facebook status message I set at the time: “Chad Orzel abhors a vacuum.” The apparatus I’m building uses laser cooling to decelerate… Continue reading Experimental Physics for Morons, #47
The First Church of the Best
After reading my LiveJournal friends list, I wander downstairs to talk to Kate. “I have an important question. Are we going to let FutureBaby read those agonizing kids books where the dog dies at the end?” “I certainly hope not!” says the dog. “We don’t like those books. Books where the dog dies. We don’t… Continue reading The First Church of the Best
links for 2008-02-29
The Mentoring Gap for Women in Science :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education “[W]omen do not perceive that they are receiving the same level of advising and mentoring as men.” (tags: academia science social-science psychology) On being a scientist and a woman : Where, oh where, can… Continue reading links for 2008-02-29