On our first day in Kyoto, Kate and I went to a bunch of temples, including one that was showing a bunch of really cool paintings featuring Buddhist temple accessories come to life and chasing monsters around. They had a sort of demented whimsy to them, and you can get a little flavor of it… Continue reading Bleg: Name This Artist
Author: Chad Orzel
links for 2007-12-15
IKE ‘BEATS’ TINA TO DEATH Kind of pushing the limits, even for the New York Post (tags: music news journalism) slacktivist: Charlie’s Angels Why does Chuck Colson hate little kids at Christmas? (tags: religion politics US gender) Ten Top Physics Stories for 2007 — Physics News Update 850 The AIP’s opinion (tags: physics news)
Poll: Physics/ Astronomy Story of the Year?
It’s mid-December, which means it’s time for the annual run of “Best Noun of 2007” stories in every major media outlet. Being kind of a mid-major media outlet, ScienceBlogs doesn’t produce an official list, but there’ll be a lot of discussion here about the top science stories of the year. This will mostly involve wrangling… Continue reading Poll: Physics/ Astronomy Story of the Year?
Mixed Nuts
I took a much-needed Luddite Day yesterday, shutting down the computer and spending the afternoon loafing on the couch reading. I had meant to have a new stereo installed in my car and do some Christmas shopping while I waited, but we got a moderately significant snowstorm yesterday afternoon, so I pushed the installation and… Continue reading Mixed Nuts
Tree of SCIENCE!!! #4
Here’s where things on the Tree of SCIENCE!!! start to get more interesting, and somewhat more obscure: Yes, that’s a small wooden Christmas tree ornament hanging on our full-size Christmas tree. What’s this have to do with SCIENCE!!!? Well, obviously, it represents recursion.
links for 2007-12-14
Chris Blattman’s Blog: How to get a PhD *and* save the world Advice for Econ/ PoliSci types who are interested in social change and graduate school both. (tags: economics academia politics humanities social-science) A Month of Writers, Day Ten: Wil Wheaton A look back at the glory days of Star Wars action figures. (tags: blogs… Continue reading links for 2007-12-14
In Which I Am Thwarted by Computers
1) I downloaded the demo version of Corel’s Grafigo program, which a colleague really likes on his tablet, and earlier this week, I spent a short time playing around with it. A very short time, because there are controls on the top menu bar that simply disappear when you have the tablet in portrait mode–… Continue reading In Which I Am Thwarted by Computers
Tree of SCIENCE!!! #3
Today’s ornament from the Tree of SCIENCE!!! might seem like a repeat, but it’s not: I know, you’re saying “Dude, you already did life sciences…” True, but this glittery polar bear doesn’t stand for life sciences, he stands for climate science and environemntal science.
links for 2007-12-13
[0712.1649] Warp Drive: A New Approach “In this paper we demonstrate that a sufficiently advanced civilization could, in principal, manipulate the radius of the extra dimension to locally adjust the value of the cosmological constant.” (tags: physics theory science silly articles) The Associated Press: Maine Newborns to Get $500 for College “A foundation started by… Continue reading links for 2007-12-13
The Ingenuity of Rocket Scientists
There’s another Mars article in the Times this morning, which I wouldn’t bother to note in a full post save for one thing: the way they got the results. The right front wheel of Spirit stopped turning in March 2006. Since then, the rover has been driving backwards, dragging the lame wheel along. This May,… Continue reading The Ingenuity of Rocket Scientists