Category: Links Dump

Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease – New York Times Changing demographics make admissions offices nervous (tags: academia education society culture)

Let’s Play a Game, Part 2: Game Trees and Totally Finite Games « Intrinsically Knotted Classifying games based on possible moves and winning strategies. (tags: math science academia games) …yet I’ll hammer it out The Mentally Scarring Public Service Announcement Tournament. With YouTube links, so you can experience the trauma yourself. (tags: youtube video television… Continue reading links for 2008-03-09

The Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club: Rollin’ With Dre | The A.V. Club “I will read all these terrible books so you don’t have to. It’s my latest attempt to transform the stupid, pointless shit I do in my free time into the stupid, pointless shit I am obligated do for my job.” (tags: books… Continue reading links for 2008-03-08

nanoscale views: Reviewing- why, how, and how often? “well written, thorough, timely referee reports almost always improve the quality of scientific papers” (tags: academia science physics articles writing) Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Long-dreaded politics post “[A]fter seven years of Bush, to ask whether I’d “prefer” Hillary or Obama is like asking a drowning person… Continue reading links for 2008-03-07

The Quantum Pontiff : Twins in Donut Space Mmmmmm…. Paradoxical Donuts…… (tags: physics relativity theory) Laelaps : Preaching to the choir “Has there ever been a time when science has been highly valued by the general public? “ (tags: science society class-war culture history) Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time – tech – 04… Continue reading links for 2008-03-06

Information Processing: Bell and GHZ: spooky action at a distance Comments and references on one of the great examples of quantum weirdness. (tags: physics quantum science academia education) Can I See My Grade? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education “”Can I see my grade?” There’s simply no… Continue reading links for 2008-03-05

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Penrose’s Gödel argument in rap “About as logically sound as the original, and with a somewhat better backbeat” (tags: math music silly) (Don’t Taunt) The Reaper: 26 tempting but inappropriate funeral songs | The A.V. Club “What able-minded young person hasn’t thought about drafting a will for the sole purpose… Continue reading links for 2008-03-04

Please Call Earth. We Still Haven’t Found You. – New York Times SETI: still searching after all these years. (tags: science space astronomy) YouTube – Life at the Olin Outpost Clearly, they don’t assign enough homework at Carleton… (tags: academia youtube video silly physics music) Crooked Timber » » A lot or a little, part… Continue reading links for 2008-03-03

Stephen Huneck Gallery at Dog Mountain Vermont ” I wanted to build a chapel, one that celebrated the spiritual bond we have with our dogs, and that would be open to dogs and people. People of any faith or belief system.” (tags: dog religion art animals) Such Madness – New York Times Let the hype… Continue reading links for 2008-03-02

slacktivist: More on subsidiarity “[W]here it exists here in America, inefficient Big Government tends to be the direct and predictable result of anti-regulation, anti-government laissez-faire and libertarian-ish ideologies” (tags: economics politics US society) Second Law of Thermodynamics with Discrete Quantum Feedback Control You still can’t win, but you can do a little better than with… Continue reading links for 2008-03-01