Category: Links Dump

Questions Odd and Profound – NYTimes.com “In the following pairs of excerpts, which sample, A or B, is from a Royal Society letter, explaining earnest scientific endeavor, and which is the work of a deeply skeptical satirist in the guise of Lemuel Gulliver? “ (tags: science history literature culture books) The 10 Best Books of… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-06

Angular Momentum Example : Dot Physics Rhett explore my favorite demo from intro mechanics. (tags: science physics education blogs dot-physics) Luis von Blog: Advice On Grad School Applications (tags: academia education blogs silly)

All Of You Industrial Scientists: Out Of the Room. In the Pipeline: “It looks as if the accreditation groups decided that they were faced with a choice: commit themselves to judging what sorts of presentations should count for CE credit (which you might think was their job), or just toss out anything that has any… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-04

The Science and Entertainment Exchange: The X-Change Files: Holy Concussive Incident, Batman “Batman takes a lot of blows to his head. These come from his fighting activities and from being routinely thrown–or leaping–onto or into hard objects like walls, floors, and moving vehicles. The issue of concussion in Batman’s career is something I addressed in… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-03

AMC – Blogs – SciFi Scanner – A Cinematic Voyage Through Hollywood’s SciFi Solar System Our solar system is a wondrous and frightful venue, and from the magmatic center of the sun to the ghost ships orbiting Neptune, Hollywood has explored it all. Join us for a cinematic voyage through the scifi solar system, which… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-02

A Good Author Is Hard to Find – Books – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper “Mention the word “slush” to anyone who’s worked in publishing for longer than five minutes, and you’re likely to get an expression of sheer horror. Slush pile is a term used to refer to the collective mass of unsolicited manuscripts… Continue reading Links for 2009-12-01

On false dichotomies : Thoughts from Kansas “To the degree that I object to “New Atheism” (an ill-defined entity to which I am not entirely unsympathetic), my objection is to this precise aimlessness. By embracing Radical Honesty and railing against evidence-based communication strategy, they seem to be coming out against clearly stated goals, yet they… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-30

For a Budding Fan, Basketball The Way It Ought to Be – NYTimes.com “My older son, Gabe, turned 3 in May, and I knew this would be the season I would finally take him to his first basketball game. I wanted the experience to be fun, the start of what I hoped would be a… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-29

Colliding Galaxies For Fun and For Science! : Starts With A Bang “Galaxy Zoo has developed an outstanding game where you can help astronomers by doing something that humans easily defeat computers at: visually matching galaxies to simulations!” (tags: science astronomy computing internet blogs starts-with-bang) Should You Get a Ph.D.? : Mike the Mad Biologist… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-28

Spins spotted in room-temperature silicon – physicsworld.com “Physicists in the Netherlands are the first to show that spin-polarized electrons can be injected into silicon at room temperature. The team injected the electrons into both p-type and n-type silicon and measured how long the polarization lasted. Although the lifetime was shorter than expected the physicists believe… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-27