Category: Links Dump

Survival Blog for Scientists » Blog Archive » Giving your new results away too soon "[W]here do you announce your results first: in the title? In the abstract? In the introduction? Or, in the results paragraph?" All three of those, plus the Conclusion. (tags: academia writing science journals) Tolerant Faculty, Intolerant Students :: Inside Higher… Continue reading links for 2008-08-21

slacktivist: Saddleback "The Democratic senator wasn’t there to try to win evangelical votes by touting his support for abortion rights. Nor was he there hoping to persuade them to change their minds on that question. What he did instead was this: He disagreed with them." (tags: politics US society religion) Physics Today Campaign 2008 –… Continue reading links for 2008-08-20

College cocktails lead to science career ""I could mix drinks without measuring," Sacchettini recalls. "Turns out that was perfect training for biochemistry."" (tags: academia biology chemistry medicine science jobs drugs) Musical Perceptions: Can’t even win a dull contest We’re #2… on the list of dullest college towns in America… (tags: academia silly) Built on Facts… Continue reading links for 2008-08-19

nanoscale views: Cryptophysicists "I think that we need to coin an official term, "cryptophysicist", to describe people who do physics research outside the mainstream." Hey to "Uncle Al." (tags: science physics stupid blogs) Built on Facts : Temperature of a Microwave What is the temperature when you nuke food? Does the question even make sense?… Continue reading links for 2008-08-17

Five Secrets to Publishing Success :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs Not so much for the scientists, but a good look at the process for the humanities. (tags: publishing journals humanities social-science academia) If One Professor Gropes, Does Everyone Need Training? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s… Continue reading links for 2008-08-16

Green-Clad Olympic Archer Steals Gold Medals From Rich, Gives Them To Poor | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source "Since entering China last month by using a forged Sherwood Forest passport under the name Robert Huntingdon, the archer has appeared at more than 70 medal ceremonies, escaping with the gold every time." (tags: silly… Continue reading links for 2008-08-15

Michael Nielsen » Why the world needs quantum mechanics A very nice, detailed, and most importantly, accessible explanation of Bell’s theorem. Needs more dogs, though. (tags: physics quantum science blogs) The Quantum Pontiff : When Two Zeros Are Not Zero: The Strange Lives of Quantum Cell Phones "There exist quantum channels that, when you use… Continue reading links for 2008-08-05 [delicious.com]

Museum Review – At the Insectarium, Getting Down With All That Skitters, Buzzes or Crawls – Review – NYTimes.com "In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which opened here in June, you can watch Formosan termites eat through a wooden skyline of New Orleans…, stick your head into a transparent dome in a kitchen closet… Continue reading links for 2008-08-03 [delicious.com]

Temporally Controlled Modulation of Antihydrogen Production and the Temperature Scaling of Antiproton-Positron Recombination "Our observations have established a pulsed source of atomic antimatter, with a rise time of about 1 s, and a pulse length ranging from 3 to 100 s. " (tags: physics science particles experiment articles) Hidden Variable Models for Quantum Theory Cannot… Continue reading links for 2008-08-02 [delicious.com]

UKTV: About UKTV: The world’s ten oldest jokes "Modern puns, Essex girl jokes and toilet humour can all be traced back to the very earliest jokes identified in this research." (tags: silly history) TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect "[D]id any other random black people who like Barack Obama say something that offended you today?"… Continue reading links for 2008-08-01 [delicious.com]