Category: Links Dump

Quantum Hoops We’re still not sure whether they won or lost. (tags: basketball academia sports physics movies) slacktivist: King and Huck The difference between the religious language of Martin Luther King and Mike Huckabee. (tags: religion politics US society culture) Coping With the Crunch :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All… Continue reading links for 2008-01-17

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Civility The Dean Dad’s one-sentence campus civility code. (tags: academia culture society humanities social-science) I Can Has Rezearch Papar? by Cyle Gage The semiotics of LOLCats. Or Maybe it’s the hemeneutics of LOLCats. I get those mixed up. (tags: culture humanities internet academia) MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry,… Continue reading links for 2008-01-16

Overheard in New York | The United Nations, Encapsulated “They have been underestimating my power for quite some time now.” (tags: silly blogs) SFFWorld 2007 Best Reads Review (Part 1) A discussion of the best in fantasy last year. (tags: books literature SF review) SFFWorld Best Reads 2007 (Part II) – Page 1 of 4… Continue reading links for 2008-01-15

Just Science 2008 » Just Science 2008 People blogging about nothing but science, Feb. 4-8. (tags: blogs science) Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fiction A Nebula-nominated story, available online. Yet another thing I’ll read in my copious free time. (tags: space stories books) Prisoner’s lawsuit says it was too easy to escape – Los Angeles Times… Continue reading links for 2008-01-14

Copernicus’ Secret – Jack Repcheck – Book Review – New York Times Copernicus, you dog! (tags: history science astronomy books review) Libraries Digging Deep for Geothermal Savings – New York Times They’re doing this for the high school near our house. (tags: environment energy science gadgets) The Little Professor: The Academic Olympics It would probably… Continue reading links for 2008-01-13

YouTube – Svezia, Inferno E Paradiso (1968) The origin of everybody’s favorite Muppet earworm, via the AV Club. (tags: music video youtube silly movies television) YouTube – Muppets – Mahna Mahna The Muppet version. You can thank me later. (tags: music silly television youtube) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside… Continue reading links for 2008-01-12

Why don’t we drop medical waste and nuclear waste into active volcanoes? – By Daniel Engber – Slate Magazine The Question of the Year. I was rooting for “Is it possible I have the softest cat in the world?” (tags: environment science silly) Hubble finds double Einstein ring Three galaxies, all in a row. (tags:… Continue reading links for 2008-01-11

Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Geophysicists moderate neutrons Estimating conference attendance by the attenuation of the cosmogenic neutron flux due to people on the exhibit floor. (tags: physics silly science) A Natural Scientist: Before You Sign Up For Indentured Servitude The three most important decisions in grad school: Advisor, Advisor, Advisor. (tags: academia science education)… Continue reading links for 2008-01-10

PHD Comics: Research Diagram/Research Reality No schematic survives its first encounter with the apparatus. (tags: silly comics science experiment) Teens find the benefits of not having sex decline with age “The greatest change in attitudes was among teens who became sexually experienced during the study period. For those teens, the percentage who said that not… Continue reading links for 2008-01-09

Economists Say Movie Violence Might Temper the Real Thing – New York Times “From 6 p.m. to midnight on weekends — when the largest numbers of people are in theaters — violent crimes decreased 1.3 percent for every million people watching a strongly violent movie, the study found. Violent crimes dropped 1.1 percent for every… Continue reading links for 2008-01-08