Category: Links Dump

Seed: “So” A look at the most common verbal tic of scientists. (tags: science language academia education)

Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » What’s Wrong With “Social Justice”? “If you really mean it, however, you have to seriously leave room for, even encourage, someone to answer the question, “Should we pursue social justice or be socially responsible” by saying, “No”.” (tags: academia education society culture ethics politics) Dynamics of Cats : string… Continue reading links for 2008-04-26

Princeton scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter “Writing in the April 24 issue of Nature, the scientists report that they have recorded [the quantum Hall effect] in a bulk crystal of bismuth-antimony without any external magnetic field being present.” (tags: physics experiment materials news science) ‘Buckypaper’ stretches in a strange way – physicsworld.com “[R]esearchers… Continue reading links for 2008-04-25

Acephalous: Interview with a Candidate for Many Jobs (but Winner of None) “So your advice to candidates is to take consolation in the fact that the entire planet isn’t being devoured by The Eater of Worlds?” (tags: academia jobs blogs silly) nanoscale views: Career comments There’s really no end to the number of people willing… Continue reading links for 2008-04-24

james_nicoll: Welcome to the Harlan Ellison Memorial Personal Boundaries Club The title is really all the commentary you need on the “Open-Source Boob Project.” (tags: SF stupid gender ethics society culture) Confessions of a Community College Dean: The Pre-Ninja Program “75 percent of the graduates we contacted indicated satisfaction with the program, though many threatened… Continue reading links for 2008-04-23

Cognitive Daily: What’s better for heating a mug of water: The stove or the microwave? Dave watches pots boil so you don’t have to. (tags: physics science energy environment silly) PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat – New York Times Shockingly, they’ve stumbled across a halfway decent idea. I think this is mentioned… Continue reading links for 2008-04-22

Jacks of Science − Super Slow Motion is the New Slow Motion “[A]s frames per second increase (speed of video decreases), coolness approaches infinity, a value infinitely cooler than the speed of normal life. Moving past this discontinuity, boringness surpasses coolness and we observe exponential decay as speed of (tags: video youtube silly science gadgets… Continue reading links for 2008-04-20

Preliminary thermal modeling accounts for some (but not all) of the Pioneer Anomaly – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society Some of the mysterious extra acceleration may just be uneven heating. (tags: science space physics astronomy thermo theory computing) Car Talk “Coming April 22, PBS’s NOVA presents a very special program. The topic?… Continue reading links for 2008-04-19

The Scientific Activist: Why Are Veins Blue? It’s all about optics. (tags: social-science medicine biology optics physics blogs) 100 Greatest Novelty Songs Feel the pain. (tags: music silly stupid culture)

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Science Fairs and School Boards “From looking at the other projects, this year’s theme was baking soda volcanoes. ” This year, and every year. (tags: education science kid-stuff) Physicists Claim to Have Found ‘Dark Matter’ Again – New York Times “Juan Collar of the University of Chicago said people… Continue reading links for 2008-04-17