The weekend interrupted the parade of Nobel prizes, setting apart The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, more commonly called the Nobel in Economics (even though it’s a late addition). This goes to three guys in the US, including the obligatory Chicagoan: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, and Roger… Continue reading The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007
links for 2007-10-15
Friends, not policies, win elections – Physics World – physicsworld.com I am shocked– shocked!– to learn that voters don’t always elect the candidate woth the best policies. (tags: politics physics stupid journals) C. Sample Citation and Introduction to Citing Blogs For those times when you want to use a LOLcat in a Science article… (via… Continue reading links for 2007-10-15
Energy-Efficient Appliance Question
So, we’d like to get a new refirgerator (our current refrigerator is pretty old and beat. When the compressor kicks on, the lights in the living room flicker, and the shelf on the inside of the door is broken, which greatly reduces the useful storage space.), and being good liberal types, we’d like something energy-efficient.… Continue reading Energy-Efficient Appliance Question
NFL Open Thread
I’ve been largely silent about the NFL for the past couple of weeks, mostly because I don’t know what to make of anything that’s happening. I only saw the first half of last week’s Giants game, where it looked like they had reverted to their early-season form, but then they exploded in the second half,… Continue reading NFL Open Thread
New-ish Blog, Small World
I’m cleaning out some old saved items from my RSS feeds, to prepare for some changes at ScienceBlogs, and one of the items I had marked but never done anything with was an announcement of the launch of Correlations, a group blog from Wired Science and PBS. It suffers a bit from the Wired aesthetic… Continue reading New-ish Blog, Small World
links for 2007-10-14
Overheard in New York | History Is an Unbroken Chain of Irony (tags: silly) YouTube – Cowboy Bebop AMV – Woolongs for Nothing A classic Dire Straits video redone with Cowboy Bebop characters (tags: anime music youtube silly)
LOLEmmy: Solvay It’s Not
Here’s another installment in the payoff for Rajesh Vaidya’s donation. This is one of a bunch of pictures Kate took of me and Emmy playing on the floor: This sort of looks like it ought to be a scene from one of our physics conversations, so here’s my lame attempt at a caption:
More DonorsChoose Incentives
You may or may not have noticed the appearance of large banner ads promoting the ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose EccentricCapitalization Challenge. If you haven’t, they go to this page explaining the challenge and offering valuable prizes. If you’d like to increase the range of swag you can obtain for your donation, head on over there and check… Continue reading More DonorsChoose Incentives
LOLEmmy: Unsatisfactory Toys
It’s Saturday, and it’s Homecoming weekend at Union, so I’ll be over on campus watching sporting events for a good chunk of the day. That means it’s a perfect time to pay off another blog purchase, this one from Rajesh Vaidya who asked for LOLEmmys, at least five pictures worth. There are two problems with… Continue reading LOLEmmy: Unsatisfactory Toys
links for 2007-10-13
Nonlocal Quantum Effects with Bose-Einstein Condensates New theoretical resutls having to do with measurements of particles in two independent condensates show some cool quantum effects (tags: physics quantum science articles) Finite-Temperature Collective Dynamics of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover Experimental resuts looking at fermionic atoms near the transition analogoue to that in a… Continue reading links for 2007-10-13