Cocktail Party Physics: they do it with mirrors What’s up with those “It’s the mirrors” commercials for DLP. Still no explanation of the elephant. (tags: physics industry science materials gadgets) A.C.C. Teams Thinking About the Final Four Already – New York Times Let’s not get ahead of ourselves… (tags: basketball) Harvard University engineers demonstrate quantum… Continue reading links for 2007-10-23
Author: Chad Orzel
New “Meme”: Manly or Self-Sufficient?
As mentioned in the previous post, Cut to the Chase offers two lists of skills to look at: The Popular Mechanics list of “25 Skills Every Man Should Know” and a new list of “20 Practical Skills Every Self-Sufficient Adult Should Have.” This seems ripe for an Internet “meme” thing, so here’s a the proposed… Continue reading New “Meme”: Manly or Self-Sufficient?
N Skills Every Scientist Should Have
A little while back, Popular Mechanics published a list of 25 Skills Every Man Should Know. Seven of the 25 are car-related, another four have to do with construction, and an additional six are outdoorsy things. Of course, they also threw in “extend your wireless network,” for the nerds out there, but it does tend… Continue reading N Skills Every Scientist Should Have
Cartoooooons!
I’ve been Netflix-ing and sloooowly watching the anime Last Exile over the last few months, and finished it over the weekend. It’s all very pretty, but I really don’t understand what the hell happened at the very end. Some fun stuff along the way, though. This means that I have once again run out of… Continue reading Cartoooooons!
links for 2007-10-22
The Right-Wing Facebook – Welcome “Rudy Giuliani is wondering how he can fit 9/11 into a speech about agriculture policy.” (tags: politics US silly) A Paler Shade of White: Musical Events: The New Yorker An attempt to find cultural significance in the fact that the author doesn’t like indie rock. (tags: culture music) Cocktail Party… Continue reading links for 2007-10-22
DonorsChoose: No Fork for You!
Well, the DonorsChoose challenge came up short of the “stab myself with a fork” threshold by the Friday deadline, though the whole business turned out to be surprisingly effective. Go figure. At this point in things, militant atheist baiting is pretty much played out as a fundraising strategy, which means I need to turn to… Continue reading DonorsChoose: No Fork for You!
Book Report
The occasional writing update, with bonus LOLEmmy: (Photo credit: Kate)
Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory [Library of Babel]
I appear not to have booklogged Naomi Novik’s earlier books, which is something of an oversight. I think they got lost in the transition between the old booklog, and posting booklog entries here. At any rate, Empire of Ivory is the fourth book in the Temeraire series, which starts with the Hugo-nominated His Majesty’s Dragon… Continue reading Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory [Library of Babel]
links for 2007-10-21
…My heart’s in Accra » Pop!Tech 2007 More interesting conference blogging posts than I can link individually (tags: gadgets society science computing economics education) The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question – New York Times Nobody likes the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (tags: economics Nobel)
Online Dialogue About Nanotechnology
While I’m passing on announcements from my email, there’s an online event scheduled for Tuesda and Wednesday about nanotechnology and the consumer: Nanotechnology–the ability to measure, see, manipulate and manufacture things between 1 and 100 nanometers (1 billionth of a meter)–is seen as the driver of a new industrial revolution emerging with the development of… Continue reading Online Dialogue About Nanotechnology