Category: Links Dump

Neanderthal Bones Make a Case for Redheads – New York Times Make up your own Irish joke. (tags: science news biology) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Teaching Professors to Be More Effective Teachers Targeted efforts to teach how to read scholarly texts pay of (tags: academia… Continue reading links for 2007-11-01

Overheard in New York | The Giant Ones Who Live in the Sewers Are Especially Nasty A little something for the atheists. (tags: silly religion) Pure Pedantry : The Moral Problem of New Atheism vs. Religion -or- The Majesty of Creation ScienceBlogs’ best writer on science and religion and politics. (tags: religion politics science) D-squared… Continue reading links for 2007-10-31

Aspie-quiz Do you have an autism-spectrum disorder, or are you neurotypical and just kind of an asshole? (via Scalzi) (tags: science psychology society blogs) The Dragaeran Cycle of Houses by ~Silversaff on deviantART So… A lyorn is a Labrador Retriever with a horn? (tags: books art SF) Laelaps : The good, the bad, and the… Continue reading links for 2007-10-30

The Washington Monthly Paul Glastris goes on the Colbert Report: “[I]t’s a bit disconcerting to be twelve inches away from a guy who’s doing a very believable impression of a total lunatic.” (tags: politics silly television) Whatever: Football With Jesus Why you shouldn’t let Christ in your Pop Warner league. (tags: football religion silly blogs)… Continue reading links for 2007-10-29

NIST demos industrial-grade nanowire device fabrication A method that produces nanowires in specific places with specific orientations. (tags: physics materials experiment science news) Video shows buckyballs form by ‘shrink wrapping’ Graphits sheets wrap around and shed pieces, eventually leaving a sphere. With obligatory YouTube link. (tags: materials physics experiment science news youtube) American kids, dumber… Continue reading links for 2007-10-28

slacktivist: Gay-hatin’ Gospel (pt. 4) Blogdom’s best writer on religion and politics continues his series on why evangelicals are so hostile to gays. (tags: religion society politics gender) It Is Written – Books & Culture Christianity Today reviews The Year of Living Biblically (tags: culture religion books review society) Casimir Forces between Arbitrary Compact Objects… Continue reading links for 2007-10-27

Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: ‘Inside Greek U.’ Surprisingly sensible comments about a new book on fraternities and sororities (tags: academia education books) Books: The Musical Mystique “The discourse supporting classical music so reeks of historical blindness and sanctimonious self-regard as to render the object of… Continue reading links for 2007-10-26

Welcome to Syracuse University News. “Andrea Farina, a senior communications design major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art and Design, won the World Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) Championship” (tags: silly sports) Cocktail Party Physics: just an ordinary man Celebrating 50 years of the Bardenn-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity. (tags: physics quantum… Continue reading links for 2007-10-25

slacktivist: Gay-Hatin’ Gospel (pt. 3) Part three of Fred Clark’s look at why evangelicals are so anti-gay. (tags: religion politics blogs US gender) The Big Three How important are the major SF magazines, anyway? (tags: SF books literature) Evolving Thoughts A taxonomy, of sorts. (tags: religion science) james_nicoll: How to save the SF magazines A… Continue reading links for 2007-10-24

Cocktail Party Physics: they do it with mirrors What’s up with those “It’s the mirrors” commercials for DLP. Still no explanation of the elephant. (tags: physics industry science materials gadgets) A.C.C. Teams Thinking About the Final Four Already – New York Times Let’s not get ahead of ourselves… (tags: basketball) Harvard University engineers demonstrate quantum… Continue reading links for 2007-10-23