Category: Links Dump

Das Kriegstagebuch von Dieter Finzen im 1. Weltkrieg – Wardiary of Dieter Finzen in WW1 Diary entries from a German soldier in WWI, posted 93 years after they were written. (tags: history war world blogs) WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier “This blog is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin’s letters from the first… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-12

Faraday’s Cage is where you put Schroedinger’s Cat – Why you might want to live in ND… “My rural area friends have commented on this same trend. Most kids don’t do anything unsupervised in cities and spend all of their time indoors. School is making this worse. Kids are being given ever more homework at… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-11

A New Spacecraft to Explore on Waves of Light – NYTimes.com “About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth. There in the vacuum it will unfurl four triangular sails as shiny as… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-10

The Mid-Majority : The Old Ways “Once the Union was preserved forever, the United States stopped worrying splitting into two. So with the late 1800’s came the combat-in-context of professional and amateur sports. If you’re looking for a reason why the South never rose again, it’s probably because it was too busy learning how to… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-09

On Denialism and the role of science in America. (1) – By Chris Mooney and Michael Specter – Slate Magazine A fourpart discussion on science, the media, and American society, featuring the authors of _The Republican War on Science_ and _Denialism_. (tags: science politics media journalism society culture medicine) The Peril of Palatability – Reason… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-08

WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D. “This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-07

Philip K. Dick | Books | The A.V. Club “Why it’s daunting: Science fiction and fantasy get a lot of mileage out of taking their readers to new worlds, but most classic genre fiction is really about making new worlds seem like home. The Lord Of The Rings would lose a lot of its appeal… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-06

TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | My philosophy: Alan Sokal “Physicists, when they do philosophy, often do it badly. They’re often confused about the conceptual foundations of their own physics, because sometimes you can compute and get the right results even if you don’t understand conceptually very well what you’re doing. That’s a criticism that not… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-05

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Protecting aircraft from high-powered lasers Sadly, this does not involve giant laser cannons trying to shoot down planes. (tags: science physics lasers optics) Essay – What to Write Next – Picking a Genre for Your Next Novel – NYTimes.com “Thriller Nothing wrong with putting a little food on the table,… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-04

Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog. “I’m not real sure how I got here in the first place, and when you think about it you really have to go all the way back to school, and mom thought I should be a doctor and dad thought I should be an industrial wood lathe… Continue reading Links for 2009-11-03