slacktivist: Fix the deficit: Cure diabetes “My grand scheme for long-term debt-reduction would improve the lives of tens of millions of people while saving everyone else a ton of money. It’s an attempt to solve problems, rather than to luxuriate in enduring them and savoring the suffering they produce. And that goes against everything the… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-13
Relativity on a Human Scale: “Optical Clocks and Relativity”
As mentioned in yesterday’s post on
Crowd-Source Your Physics Questions
There’s a new physics Q&A site from the folks at Stack Exchange, this one on physics. If you’re not familiar with the format, it’s a bulletin-board style site where you can post questions to be answered by other users, and people vote the answers up and down, so you can get a decent feel for… Continue reading Crowd-Source Your Physics Questions
Links for 2010-11-12
Why Making Dinner Is A Good Idea | Wired Science | Wired.com “Why does the microwave and frozen dinner inexorably lead to obesity? According to the economists, the cheapness of calories (both in terms of price and time) has led us to dramatically boost consumption. Food stops being something we make and create — it doesn’t… Continue reading Links for 2010-11-12
Thursday Toddler Blogging 111110
Here we see SteelyKid kicking back with Appa, among some of her many, many toys: Navigating the living room is getting to be kind of difficult, what with all the blocks and cups and balls and other things strewn all over the place… In other news, SteelyKid is in training to be a genius. Don’t… Continue reading Thursday Toddler Blogging 111110
How Do You Trap an Ion, Anyway?
One of the many physics stories I haven’t had time to blog about recently is the demonstration of relativistic time effects using atomic clocks. I did mention a DAMOP talk about the experiment, but the actual paper was published in Science (and is freely available from the NIST Time and Frequency Division (PDF file), because… Continue reading How Do You Trap an Ion, Anyway?
Pre-Veterans Days
I usually have ESPN on as background noise in the morning, but I turned it off today because their increasingly fulsome tributes to Veterans Day were getting on my nerves. I’m all in favor of honoring the sacrifices made by members of the military, but a little decorum would be nice at the same time.… Continue reading Pre-Veterans Days
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slacktivist: TF: Chairface Carpathia “The villain Nicolae Carpathia probably reminds of more than any other is Chairface Chippendale, from one of my favorite episodes of The Tick — a warped parody of superhero comics. Chairface, a supervillain, constructs a giant heat ray he plans to use to carve his name on the moon. Our heroes,… Continue reading Links for 11-11-10
Academic Poll: Course Selection
We’ve just recently completed pre-registration for Winter term classes, so I’ve been thinking a bit about why students do and do not sign up for things. Thus, a poll: You are a college student considering an elective class in your major, and you see it has a lab. Your reaction is:survey software Feel free to… Continue reading Academic Poll: Course Selection
Bakery Poll: The _____ on the Cake
Having posted not one but two snarky political entries in recent days, I feel like I owe the Internet a couple of ResearchBlogging posts to make up for it. It’s the last week of classes here, though, which means I have a lot of frantic work to do. Thus, a frivolous poll inspired by the… Continue reading Bakery Poll: The _____ on the Cake