{"id":2480,"date":"2008-04-09T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/09\/links-for-20080409\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:39:09","slug":"links-for-20080409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/09\/links-for-20080409\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2008-04\/uota-mpl040708.php\">Most powerful laser in the world fires up<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31,&#8221; Good thing, or they&#8217;d feel pretty dumb about the name.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catslaughing.wordpress.com\/\"> Cats Laughing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Everybody&#8217;s favorite band of SF authors, on the Intenet.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2008\/04\/08\/affirm\">Affirmative Action Challenged Anew :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education&#8217;s Source for News, and Views and Jobs<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2008-04\/nu-rts040808.php\">Researchers take step toward creating quantum computers using entangled photons in optical fibers<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Kumar and his team used the fiber-generated indistinguishable photons to implement the most basic quantum computer task &#8211; a controlled-NOT gate, which allows two photonic qubits to interact.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/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.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2008-04\/dnl-asc040808.php\">Argonne scientists, collaborators create first superinsulator<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;When they tried to pass a current through the material, the researchers noticed that its resistance suddenly increased by a factor of 100,000 once the temperature dropped below a certain threshold. 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