Songs for the Dumped: The Prelude | Popdose “[A] two-week anthology in which music nerds write about tracks they’ve attached to a particular crippling breakup, let you splash around in the stories behind them and hopefully, if we’ve done our jobs, make you feel slightly better about your own mi (tags: music culture society sex)… Continue reading links for 2008-02-01
Ask Mister Language Person
What’s the difference between a “seminar” and a “colloquium”? Is there a difference?
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Jacks of Science â Pimp my Hypothetical Home Laboratory “Ever since I saw the painting shown above, I’ve wanted to suffocate birds in my very own home laboratory. As I got older, the desire to destroy life subsided, but the desire for a home laboratory remained.” (tags: science biology chemistry silly gadgets) The Washington Monthly… Continue reading links for 2008-01-31
Do Something About Science Funding: Write to Congress
I doubt I need to tell any ScienceBlogs readers that the omnibus budget bill passed in December was a disaster in terms of science funding. There is still a faint hope that something might be done, if Congress can be made to act on a supplemental budget bill to restore some of the lost funding.… Continue reading Do Something About Science Funding: Write to Congress
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The Edublogs Magazine : Who Are the Top Edubloggers? “Aseem Badshah has created a listing of the Top Education Bloggers or edubloggers based upon Technorati’s rankings.” This page reviews some of them. (tags: blogs education academia) The Other Side of Graduate Admissions | Cosmic Variance How the faculty at UW’s Astronomy department choose next year’s… Continue reading links for 2008-01-30
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Toonish Lite The Warner Brothers cartoon RPG. (tags: silly television comics games) gladwell dot com – the ketchup conundrum The definitive article on ketchup. (tags: culture food history science psychology society) PEDABLOGUE – Behind the Scenes of Rate My Professor A review of every academic’s favorite site. (tags: academia education internet review) Scientists propose test… Continue reading links for 2008-01-29
Tiny Trophy for Football Physics
The folks at Physics Central are running a video contest, with the winner getting the world’s smallest trophy: Get your camera out… ’cause the world’s smallest trophy is up for grabs! You could win the smallest trophy ever made, and $1000 of (normal sized) cash in the Physics Central Nano Bowl Video Contest To enter… Continue reading Tiny Trophy for Football Physics
Alternative Beverages
I don’t drink coffee, and never have, but I used to drink a lot of tea. Unfortunately, I suspect that 6-8 cups of Earl Grey a day may have played a role in triggering the Great Stomach Unpleasantness a couple of years ago. Certainly, hot, acidic liquids with caffeine are on the List of things… Continue reading Alternative Beverages
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illuminating science » What should we learn? “should we teach the “standard” methods for doing multiplication and division (the usual multiplication (“carry the 3â³ etc) and the usual long division) or are students would be better off learning more “intuitive” methods?” (tags: math education academia science society) Natelson Group: Useful Links Learn solid-state physics with… Continue reading links for 2008-01-28