{"id":2916,"date":"2008-09-10T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/10\/links-for-20080910\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T05:00:47","slug":"links-for-20080910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/10\/links-for-20080910\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-09-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v22\/st8\">Shaping Single Photons | Physical Review Focus<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Physicists have been manipulating single photons for several years, but now a team has modulated the time profile of a photon. Using the same optical equipment that fashions ordinary light pulses, the team molded single photons into arbitrary shapes, such as a pair of square pulses, as they describe in the 5 September Physical Review Letters. This precise control could have uses in quantum cryptography and quantum memory storage.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/viewfromthecorner.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/interesting-mathematical-model.html\">View from the Corner: An interesting mathematical model&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I found this mathmatical model of the benefits of having kids as a function of age kinda fascinating. From that link you can download an excel file and instructions on how to fill it out. It has a bunch of curves, representing your professional productivity and social life and &quot;ability to enjoy a child&quot; as a function of age, and takes into the relative importance of family, career, and social life, and the different options &#8212; taking varying amounts of time off or working part time while the child is young.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2008\/09\/09\/live-blogging-the-lhc-startup\/\">Live-Blogging the LHC Startup! | Cosmic Variance<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">For those who care&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/2008\/09\/heinleins-fan-mail-solution.php\">Conceptual Trends and Current Topics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Heinlein engineered his own nerdy solution to a problem common to famous authors: how to deal with fan mail. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaping Single Photons | Physical Review Focus &quot;Physicists have been manipulating single photons for several years, but now a team has modulated the time profile of a photon. 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