Category: Links Dump

IKE ‘BEATS’ TINA TO DEATH Kind of pushing the limits, even for the New York Post (tags: music news journalism) slacktivist: Charlie’s Angels Why does Chuck Colson hate little kids at Christmas? (tags: religion politics US gender) Ten Top Physics Stories for 2007 — Physics News Update 850 The AIP’s opinion (tags: physics news)

Chris Blattman’s Blog: How to get a PhD *and* save the world Advice for Econ/ PoliSci types who are interested in social change and graduate school both. (tags: economics academia politics humanities social-science) A Month of Writers, Day Ten: Wil Wheaton A look back at the glory days of Star Wars action figures. (tags: blogs… Continue reading links for 2007-12-14

[0712.1649] Warp Drive: A New Approach “In this paper we demonstrate that a sufficiently advanced civilization could, in principal, manipulate the radius of the extra dimension to locally adjust the value of the cosmological constant.” (tags: physics theory science silly articles) The Associated Press: Maine Newborns to Get $500 for College “A foundation started by… Continue reading links for 2007-12-13

Malaria – Vaccine – Mosquitoes – Research – Medicine and Health – New York Times A profile of efforts to make a vaccine for malaria. (tags: biology medicine animals economics drugs) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Campus Fight Club Dorm-room boxing, yet another brilliant student idea… Continue reading links for 2007-12-12

Catholic World News : Vatican astronomer likens creationism to superstition Brother Guy Consolmagno, talking sense as always. (tags: astronomy religion science biology) Daily Kos: What was wrong with the debate education question A good discussion of the issues involved with merit pay, teacher compensation, and teacher’s unions, from a teacher and union member. (tags: education… Continue reading links for 2007-12-11

The Little Professor: The Golden Compass Less “atheist” than “Protestant.” (tags: literature religion review movies SF) westerblog » Blog Archive » One Last Pullman Post An important clarification regarding what happens to the Authority in His Dark Materials. (tags: religion books literature movies SF)

It Came Upon A Midnight Weird :: Cavalcade of Bad Nativities 2007 “The people who made this probably never even saw Star Wars, so they have no idea that they’ve just made a Jawa nativity. Sure, they’re adoring the child right now, but tomorrow, they’ll be out stealing droids again.” (tags: silly pictures religion)

YouTube – Here Comes Another Bubble – The Richter Scales Web 2.0, to the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (tags: internet music silly video youtube) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Hope on Ph.D. Attrition Rates — Except in Humanities “Even after 10 years, a… Continue reading links for 2007-12-08

Cat Macros – Post a comment LOLCat weighs in on the Russian acquisition of LiveJournal. (tags: silly pictures blogs internet) Hey Spot, You’ve Got Mail – New York Times Dogster: because pets need social networks, too. (tags: dog silly internet society) The A.V. Club’s Third Annual Surprisingly Specific Holiday Gift Guide | The A.V. Club… Continue reading links for 2007-12-07

Angels and Demons Frequently asked questions about antimatter at CERN. Dan Brown has a lot to answer for. (tags: books physics science stupid) Major physics breakthrough in understanding supersolidity The weirdness continues, in this remarkable uninformative press release. (tags: physics low-temperature news quantum science) Tuneable gap semiconductor is a first – physicsworld.com Applying a voltagee… Continue reading links for 2007-12-06