Category: Links Dump

A Misunderstood Monument – WSJ.com “French worked hard to make his huge Lincoln a man and not a god. This is one rumpled icon. The imperfections are hard to miss. His hair is uncombed. His tie is askew. His hands betray a fidgety disposition, and his eyes aren’t quite symmetrical.” (tags: history US art society… Continue reading links for 2008-05-27

New tests of the Copernican Principle proposed – physicsworld.com “”I would bet my house now that the results will come out null so the Copernican Principle is valid on the scales we observe,” says Paul Steinhardt a cosmologist at Princeton University, “But I think the experiments should be done.”” (tags: science astronomy physics theory news)… Continue reading links for 2008-05-26

Mark Batty Publisher/ Books/ Description Bedtime reading for future font geeks. (tags: books silly language publishing) Where to Watch Phoenix’ Landing – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society “There are a bazillion sources of information on what’s up with Phoenix as its landing approaches on Sunday, so here’s an attempt to round up… Continue reading links for 2008-05-25

Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » In My Day… “[I]t would help, if you want to complain about the declining quality of the humanities, to not be a historical dunderhead on a fantastic scale, to demonstrate some degree of erudition.” (tags: academia humanities history society culture education)

Thoughts from Kansas : Hurray for the primaries! “Good Lord, they’ve all gone crazy. It isn’t just Lanny Davis any more.” (tags: US politics video youtube silly) Astronomers watch as star dies – physicsworld.com “The source, now identified as SN 2008D, marks the first time a star has been caught turning into a “type-Ib” supernova”… Continue reading links for 2008-05-23

Izzle! Izzle pfaff! “In the Name of the King is neither good nor bad, and yet it is both at once. In the Name of the King is the Schrodinger’s Cat of garbage movies; until watched, it remains in a state of quantum superposition, and then when it is watched, the waveform coll (tags: movies… Continue reading links for 2008-05-22

FemaleScienceProfessor: The Five Stages of Proposal Writing Six, if you live in a trailer park. (tags: academia science economics) slacktivist: Bacchanal “I haven’t seen Prince Caspian yet, but since it was the “No. 1 Movie” this weekend, let’s revisit what that wonderful little book was about: Prince Caspian is about beer.” (tags: books movies literature… Continue reading links for 2008-05-21

New family of quaternary iron-based compounds superconducts at tens of kelvin – Physics Today May 2008 “Last year it looked as though high-Tc superconductivity takes place only in CuO2 planes. Now that LaOFeAs has broken the cuprates’ monopoly, what other superconductors wait to be discovered?” (tags: physics materials energy science news) The Twin Paradox A… Continue reading links for 2008-05-20

ruhlman.com: Flour, egg, milk Really simple popovers. (tags: food blogs) Dynamics of Cats : grade inflation “I had been worrying that my “curve” was tipping too far, too many As and Bs, but [threats are] not why – in fact student whingeing, if anything, would tip me towards harsher grading.” (tags: academia education society) Grits… Continue reading links for 2008-05-19

California’s gay-marriage decision reflects the difference between judicial activism and, um judging. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine “Even though the majority did what it was supposed to do and offered up a rigorous close reading of state law and precedent, it will be defended and also criticized solely in terms of judicial elitism… Continue reading links for 2008-05-18