J-Dog asks: So, how come you don’t blog more about Rugby? Because it’s not on tv regularly, and I can’t blog about sporting events that I don’t see. This is a persistent source of irritation, though. For example, Wales just won the Six Nations, and the only mention of it I’ve seen on the “Worldwide… Continue reading Uncomfortable Questions: Rugby Blogging
Uncomfortable Questions: Particle Physics
Stephen asks: Why do you try to hide your secret desire to be a high-energy particle physicist? Heh. Seriously, honestly, I have no desire whatsoever to be a high-energy particle physicist. I wish I had a somewhat better understanding of particle physics, becuase that way I would have an easier time reading a lot of… Continue reading Uncomfortable Questions: Particle Physics
Women of AMO Physics
Via Steinn, a “meme” asking people to name women in science: Rules: 1. You can’t choose people from your own institution or company. 2. You can’t google or use the internet to aid in your search. (But if you know someone is a scientist, but not sure what disciple, you can look that up). 3.… Continue reading Women of AMO Physics
links for 2008-03-18
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe Zombie Feynman! (tags: comics science society physics silly) Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Mistake of the Week: “But even he says so, and he’s an X!” “Given any exotic mixture of belief and group affiliation, there’s almost certainly at least one… Continue reading links for 2008-03-18
Ask Me Uncomfortable Questions
It hasn’t been a roaring success, but LBMango on LiveJournal has a twist on the questions meme that I like: Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don’t blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don’t blog about, but you’d like to hear about, and… Continue reading Ask Me Uncomfortable Questions
Lab Visit Report: Unusual Lattices
In one of his March Meeting posts, Doug Natelson writes about laser cooling experiments that explore condensed matter phenomena: While the ultracold gases provide an exquisitely clean, tunable environment for studying some physics problems, it’s increasingly clear to me that they also have some significant restrictions; for example, while optical lattices enable simulations of some… Continue reading Lab Visit Report: Unusual Lattices
Ignominy
For the first time in forever, the NCAA Tournament will start this weekend, and I won’t have a clear rooting interest. Neither Syracuse nor Maryland made the field of 65. This is, of course, karmic blowback from the Giants winning the Super Bowl– the last time they won, Syracuse became the first #2 seed ever… Continue reading Ignominy
Reforming Intro Labs
Over at Physics and Physicists, ZapperZ is thinking about the intro curriculum, and offers a suggestion: I believe that we should have a more open-ended experiment to be given to the students. So I’ll give an example. Note that while thing is something that I’ve thought about for a while, I’m still writing this off… Continue reading Reforming Intro Labs
links for 2008-03-17
Jacks of Science â A Large Hadron Leprechaun Hunt Leprechauns have infested the ATLAS detector. Get the hose. (tags: physics silly pictures) Crooked Timber » » A Primer on Irish Culture Three gifted singers who have kissed the Blarney Stone. (tags: music silly video youtube) Swans on Tea » Lab Pix: All (Well, Some) Things,… Continue reading links for 2008-03-17
What Kind of Blogging Brings the Most Traffic?
A little while back, there was some discussion of what science blogging should be, where the question of what draws the most traffic came up. A couple of people said they see more traffic from “real” science posts than from other trivia, in contrast to my claim that I see more traffic from other stuff.… Continue reading What Kind of Blogging Brings the Most Traffic?