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The Bouletcorp » Darkness I think my roommate is DARK… Ingenious Infographic: U.S. Highways, Mapped Like A Subway System | Co.Design: business + innovation + design Chucking geographic accuracy for a Tube-style schematic makes much more sense for plotting routes on the U.S. interstate system. Like the London Underground, the interstate highways are all about… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-21

Online Python Tutor Gives a nice visual representation of what’s going on in a Python code snippet. If only it handled VPython… Chip MacGregor .com: Does the publisher lose money if my book doesn’t earn out? Remember, every business can lose money. Retail shops, service business, even publishers. I mean, if you own a shoe… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-20

Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, February 17, 2012 — Library Journal Reviews Playing Gracie Allen to Orzel’s George Burns is the endearing Emmy, the canine star of his previous book. No matter whether Emmy thinks she will be younger by pulling fast on her leash or that she will suddenly fit… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-17

Problem solving like a physicist | Science Edventures Another way, which looks the same on the surface, is to break the nasty problem into a sequence of steps. “First, find the relationship between A and B. Then, calculate B for the given value of A. Next, substitute A and B into C and solve for… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-16

Proton Collisions Vs. Quark/Gluon/Antiquark Mini-Collisions | Of Particular Significance Keep in mind that the total number of 7 TeV = 7000 GeV proton-proton collisions that took place in ATLAS while they were accumulating the data for the plot above was about 100,000,000,000,000. [The total 2011 data set was 5 times larger, but the corresponding plot… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-15

The Virtuosi: Time Keeps On Slippin’ Alright, so how do we go about quantifying how “good” a watch is? Well, there seem to be two main things we can test. The first of these is accuracy. That is, how close does this watch come to the actual time (according to some time system)? If the… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-13

Jeremy Lin, Landry Fields unveil nerdiest handshake in NBA history – San Jose Mercury News Jeremy Lin and Landry Fields of the New York Knicks may comprise the most intelligent starting backcourt in NBA history. It’s certainly hard to top a duo that boasts college degrees from Harvard (Lin) and Stanford (Fields). So it’s not… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-11

Why the Proponents of a Gay Marriage Ban Will Soon Be Speechless – Slate Magazine So there you have it: That’s the best case that can be made against gay marriage. An appeals court dissent that rests on the premise that states needn’t act rationally, or offer evidence of rationality, or even be rational in… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-10

Why The Planet Doesn’t Care About Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation Co.Exist:What does the average environmentalist get wrong? Wagner: Environmentalists, all too often, think that the best way to go about solving the problem is to get everyone to do as they–we, I included–do. I don’t eat meat. I don’t… Continue reading Links for 2011-02-09

NPR hack apologizes for Wall Street « LBO News from Doug Henwood For a while, I’ve been thinking about writing a piece on how NPR is more toxic than Fox News. Fox preaches to the choir. NPR, though, confuses and misinforms people who might otherwise know better. Its “liberal” reputation makes palatable a deeply orthodox… Continue reading Links for 2012-02-07