Purdue Panel Finds Misconduct by Fusion Scientist – NYTimes.com Expect a lawsuit in 3… 2… (tags: physics science fraud ethics energy experiment academia stupid) slacktivist: L.B.: Pistol-packing pacifist “As Alice discovered in Wonderland, this kind of confident, reassured madness can be difficult to engage.” (tags: religion review books stupid politics US)
Category: Links Dump
links for 2008-07-18
Kieran Healy’s Weblog – Elementary Particles “Particle physics has been in the doldrums a bit lately, so they could do with some interdisciplinary reinvigoration. Also, their research budgets remain quite large.” (tags: social-science silly physics blogs) Crooked Timber » » Necrotrends: The GOP Was The Party of Civil Rights “So long as political considerations are… Continue reading links for 2008-07-18
links for 2008-07-17
Bush Lifts Offshore Drilling Ban | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “Is there a ban on printing more money? If so he should lift that too and fix the economy while he’s at it.” (tags: silly environment energy politics)
links for 2008-07-16
Packer Is Leaving CBS After Calling 34 Final Fours – NYTimes.com Woo-hoo! Now they just need to ditch Jim Nantz. (tags: basketball sports television) In depth: depth of focus and depth of field « Skulls in the Stars An explanation of why you can’t get everything in your pictures in focus. (tags: optics physics science… Continue reading links for 2008-07-16
links for 2008-07-15
FemaleScienceProfessor: No Man’s Land Why, as much as I gripe about our finance department, dealing with them is infinitely better than dealing with their research university counterparts. (tags: academia science economics) Thought For The Day — Words Words Words — The Dream Cafe Weblog Also, things. (tags: writing language silly) Good Math, Bad Math :… Continue reading links for 2008-07-15
links for 2008-07-14
squishable.com: they’re giant round fuzzy stuffed animals. hug them. “They’re giant, round, fuzzy, stuffed animals. Hug them.” (tags: animals silly toys kid-stuff)
links for 2008-07-13
Thin-film dyes boost solar cells – physicsworld.com “Scientists in the US have shown how to multiply the power output of photovoltaic (solar) cells by up to ten times using organic dyes to concentrate sunlight.” (tags: science physics optics chemistry energy environment news) Swans on Tea » The Right Tool For the Job See also: Five-Minute-Epoxy.… Continue reading links for 2008-07-13
Graduate Networking and Science Cartoons
A couple of links about things that have turned up in my email recently: — As a follow-on to yesterday’s post about grad school, I got an email a little while ago about Graduate Junction, a social networking/ career building site aimed at graduate students. I’m coming up on ten years of being out of… Continue reading Graduate Networking and Science Cartoons
links for 2008-07-12
The Quantum Pontiff : Ways To Do Fundamental Theoretical Physics I like option three… (tags: science theory silly physics blogs) » It’s post-a-rejection-letter Friday! >>Nostalgia For Infinity: Literature, Gaming, Punk Rock (and all that) “Apropos of the ridiculous focus on whether or not posting rejection letters is common practice/professional/legal/cuddly/appropriate/blue rather than on the exposure of… Continue reading links for 2008-07-12
links for 2008-07-11
The Reality-Based Community: Economics and Fundamentalism “A very hard puzzle for the intellectual historians of the future will lie in determining how economics remained the queen of the disciplines when it made so many wrong or simply irrelevant predictions.” (tags: academia economics social-science society)