Category: Links Dump

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 – Speed Read The Nobel committee explains the Chemistry prize (tags: chemistry Nobel science news) PhysicsCentral: Nanobowl Video Contest: Win World’s Smallest Trophy! Make a YouTube video showing the physics of football, win a nanoscale trophy (tags: youtube science physics football sports) Freaky Ninja Turtle Dog Click the image… Continue reading links for 2007-10-12

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Physics 2007 Fert and Grunberg, for Giant Magnetoresistance. People have been calling for this for years. (tags: physics news science)

The Booze News Because the world needs another web site dedicated to drunk college students (tags: academia stupid) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: The Educrats’ Attack on Teaching Hugo Schwyzer goes to a workshop on “improving student learning outcomes,” then gets snarky about it. (tags: academia… Continue reading links for 2007-10-09

BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Laws & Equipment | Rugby union positions guide A guide to accompany the World Cup (tags: sports rugby) Particle-physics detector warms to forest fires – Physics World – physicsworld.com New spin-off technology from CERN. Clearly, we must build the ILC! (tags: physics experiment gadgets science) Tom Baker Says… Via… Continue reading links for 2007-10-08

Cognitive Daily: Casual Fridays: Most citizens don’t pass the citizenship test I aced it, how about you? (tags: politics science US) james_nicoll: Where are the collapsed world-states of SF “Isn’t it a little odd,…, how few SF settings ever seem to have an Earth where a world-government has collapsed into contending states?” (tags: SF) Red… Continue reading links for 2007-10-07

Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Early (Encouraging) Data on Early Colleges If you offer college courses to good high-school students, they do better in college. Also, grass tends to be green. (tags: education academia) Improbable Research The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded. (tags: science… Continue reading links for 2007-10-06

Euler’s Constancy A short biography of and tribute to the mathematician Leonhard Euler, who did a bit of everything (tags: math academia physics) Scientists ‘weigh’ tiny galaxy halfway across universe Six billion light years away, 1/100th the mass of the Milky Way (tags: astronomy news science) nanoscale views: Challenges in measurement When expensive equipment blows… Continue reading links for 2007-10-05

Stopping atoms A “coil-gun” method for slowing atomic beams without lasers, from the Raizen group at Texas (tags: physics low-temperature science atoms) Confessions of a Community College Dean: An Open Letter to Mayor Richard M. Daley The Dean Dad is less polite to Hizzoner than I was (tags: academia stupid education) Finance Blog – Market… Continue reading links for 2007-10-04

School cheating scandal divides New Hampshire community – International Herald Tribune At some point, wouldn’t it actually be easier to learn stuff, rather than breaking into the school to steal the exams? (tags: stupid education) PhysMath Central takes off with a big bang (tags: physics journals academia open-access) Are women being scared away from math,… Continue reading links for 2007-10-03