Sunday’s a travel day for me, as I take a tiny little prop plane to the exotic land of Canada, for the Science in the 21st Century workshop. After an hour and a half bent double in a goddamn Cessna, I’ll probably be too sore to type, so don’t expect much blogging from me. If… Continue reading Express an Opinion, Win a Prize
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You Are What You Eat
I’ve seen this a bunch of places, but the most recent was Skwid’s LiveJournal: below the fold is a big long list of foods (exotic and otherwise), with ones I’ve eaten marked in bold face. The standard instructions call for striking out anything you won’t even consider eating, but I can imagine circumstances in which… Continue reading You Are What You Eat
What Do You Think?
As you may or may not have seen from the banner ads on the site (depending on whether you read via RSS or not), ScienceBlogs is running a Reader Survey at the moment. Here’s your chance to tell the Corporate Masters that they really need to sign up some more physics blogs. Or, you know,… Continue reading What Do You Think?
ScienceBlogs: Now With More Facts
The Borg assimilates another quality blogger: Built On Facts is joining ScienceBlogs. If you haven’t been reading Matt’s blog, it’s one of the best basic physics blogs around, with math and everything. It’ll be good to have another non-philatelic scientist around. Update your blogrolls accordingly.
Physical Theories Squeak When You Chew Them
“The Internet is silly!” I turn around from the computer. “Yes it is,” I say to the dog, “But what, specifically, makes you say that?” “All these posts about physics theories. Comparing them to women and men and stupid wizards, and relationships. It’s silly.” “Yes, well, it does seem to be the diversion of the… Continue reading Physical Theories Squeak When You Chew Them
Paging Humanities Bloggers…
A question raised in comments to yesterday’s rant about humanities types looking down on people who don’t know the basics of their fields, while casually dismissing math and science: [I]t occurs to me that it would be useful if someone could determine, honestly, whether the humanities professors feel the same sense of condescension among science… Continue reading Paging Humanities Bloggers…
Not Even Backreaction
Over at bloggingheads, they’ve posted a video conversation between Peter Woit of Not Even Wrong and Sabine Hossenfelder of Backreaction. They talk about string theory a bit, as you might imagine, but also about a wide range of issues in math and physics, and math- and physics-blogging. Sabine evidently had some difficulty getting a connection… Continue reading Not Even Backreaction
Reader Request Thread
I’ve hit a point in the book-writing where I’m sort of spinning my wheels: waiting for beta-reader comments, fiddling with figures, looking at dog pictures for potential illustrations (my contract calls for me to provide some number of reproduction-quality pictures of the dog). This would be the perfect time to do some blogging. The problem… Continue reading Reader Request Thread
Sizzle: No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?
As you have no doubt noticed, my early-morning review of Randy Olson’s Sizzle was part of a concerted effort to get blogs to review the movie all on the same day. It’s an experiment of sorts in using blogs to promote the movie. Unfortunately for Olson, it seems to be an experiment designed to test… Continue reading Sizzle: No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?
Next Generation Energy
The Corporate Masters have launched a new group blog, Next Generation Energy, that will be providing regular commentary on energy issues and possible new sources of energy. The authors include a few people already on ScienceBlogs (William Connolley, James Hrynyshyn, and Sheril Kirshenbaum), along with some researchers on sustainable development and alternative energy. They haven’t… Continue reading Next Generation Energy