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The Right-Wing Facebook – Welcome “Rudy Giuliani is wondering how he can fit 9/11 into a speech about agriculture policy.” (tags: politics US silly) A Paler Shade of White: Musical Events: The New Yorker An attempt to find cultural significance in the fact that the author doesn’t like indie rock. (tags: culture music) Cocktail Party… Continue reading links for 2007-10-22

…My heart’s in Accra » Pop!Tech 2007 More interesting conference blogging posts than I can link individually (tags: gadgets society science computing economics education) The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question – New York Times Nobody likes the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (tags: economics Nobel)

Terra Sigillata : News Flash: Unathletic Kids Unpopular and Lonely Also, bad at sports. (tags: education silly sports) slacktivist: Gay-Hatin’ Gospel (pt. 2) Part two in Fred Clark’s series attempting to explain evangelical gay-bashing (tags: politics US religion) Optical Dilution and Feedback Cooling of a Gram-Scale Oscillator to 6.9 mK Blogged a while back, now… Continue reading links for 2007-10-20

Mixing Memory : Women in Math, Science, and Engineering, and Playing Video Games The solution to the gender disparity in science: Mandatory first-person shooters for everyone! (tags: gender science psychology) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Sweetening the Deal Handing out chocolate boosts teaching evaluation scores. (tags:… Continue reading links for 2007-10-19

Hopkins Is Boeheim’s Designated Successor at Syracuse – New York Times Bernie Fine: Don’t hold your breath, Mike… (tags: basketball) yoco :: College Basketball || (a sports weblog) analysis and commentary on college basketball and the ncaa tournament Georgie suspends three players for missing classes. Would they do this to the football team? (tags: basketball… Continue reading links for 2007-10-18

Crooked Timber » » Political science and economics High-level discussion of the economics Nobel (tags: Nobel economics politics academia) Mixing Memory : Women in Math, Science, and Engineering: Is It About the Numbers (And Not the Ones You Might Think)? Notes on the science of “social identity threat.” (tags: psychology science gender academia) Likelihood of… Continue reading links for 2007-10-17

Edge-Serpentine Gallery: FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Equations as art objects (via Cosmic Variance) (tags: science art blogs) Marginal Revolution: Mechanism Design for Grandma The Economics Nobel explained (tags: economics Nobel news)

Friends, not policies, win elections – Physics World – physicsworld.com I am shocked– shocked!– to learn that voters don’t always elect the candidate woth the best policies. (tags: politics physics stupid journals) C. Sample Citation and Introduction to Citing Blogs For those times when you want to use a LOLcat in a Science article… (via… Continue reading links for 2007-10-15

Overheard in New York | History Is an Unbroken Chain of Irony (tags: silly) YouTube – Cowboy Bebop AMV – Woolongs for Nothing A classic Dire Straits video redone with Cowboy Bebop characters (tags: anime music youtube silly)

Nonlocal Quantum Effects with Bose-Einstein Condensates New theoretical resutls having to do with measurements of particles in two independent condensates show some cool quantum effects (tags: physics quantum science articles) Finite-Temperature Collective Dynamics of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover Experimental resuts looking at fermionic atoms near the transition analogoue to that in a… Continue reading links for 2007-10-13