{"id":1800,"date":"2007-10-06T07:24:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T07:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/06\/links-for-20071006\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:24:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T07:24:03","slug":"links-for-20071006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/06\/links-for-20071006\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2007-10-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/10\/05\/early\">Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education &#8211; Inside Higher Ed :: Early (Encouraging) Data on Early Colleges<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">If you offer college courses to good high-school students, they do better in college. Also, grass tends to be green.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/ig\/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2007\">Improbable Research<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthekuff.com\/mt\/archives\/010350.html\">Off the Kuff: On nominating judges<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Comments from someone who knows the process from the inside<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/la\/?id=110010688\">OpinionJournal &#8211; Leisure &#038; Arts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The good news that only the WSJ will bring you&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/Iraq\">Iraq<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/war\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/getabs\/servlet\/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&#038;id=PRLTAO000099000014140404000001&#038;idtype=cvips&#038;gifs=Yes&#038;type=ALERT\">Observation of a Topological and Parity-Dependent Phase of m = 0 Spin States<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Reversing the magnetic field leads to a phase shift in interferometry experiments. Topological phases are weird<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/getabs\/servlet\/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&#038;id=PRLTAO000099000014141301000001&#038;idtype=cvips&#038;gifs=Yes&#038;type=ALERT\">Constraining Unparticle Physics with Cosmology and Astrophysics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">An explanation of things you could observe that would give the strength and abundance of &#8220;unparticle&#8221; stuff.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/getabs\/servlet\/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&#038;id=PRLTAO000099000014143002000001&#038;idtype=cvips&#038;gifs=Yes&#038;type=ALERT\">Trapping of Ultracold Polar Molecules with a Thin-Wire Electrostatic Trap<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Polar molecules are all the rage, and novel ways to trap them are good.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/getabs\/servlet\/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&#038;id=PRLTAO000099000014143601000001&#038;idtype=cvips&#038;gifs=Yes&#038;type=ALERT\">Ultraslow Propagation of Matched Pulses by Four-Wave Mixing in an Atomic Vapor<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Slow light from my old group at NIST, and a student in a class I TA&#8217;d.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/getabs\/servlet\/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&#038;id=PRLTAO000099000014143901000001&#038;idtype=cvips&#038;gifs=Yes&#038;type=ALERT\">Bright Quasi-Phase-Matched Soft-X-Ray Harmonic Radiation from Argon Ions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">X-Ray generation is a perennial hot topic, and this gets into the &#8220;water window&#8221; that&#8217;s interesting for biophysics<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/getabs\/servlet\/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&#038;id=PRLTAO000099000014145001000001&#038;idtype=cvips&#038;gifs=Yes&#038;type=ALERT\">Using Three-Body Recombination to Extract Electron Temperatures of Ultracold Plasmas<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">New results from my old apparatus. 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