{"id":5040,"date":"2010-09-07T06:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T06:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/07\/links-for-2010-09-07\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T06:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T06:47:48","slug":"links-for-2010-09-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/07\/links-for-2010-09-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-09-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywh.at\/post\/1076593006\/kickass-cake-of-the-day-an-xkcd-themed-wedding\">The Daily What<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I love xkcd wedding cakes \/ boom de yada boom de yada.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/xkcd\">xkcd<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.org\/featuredetail.asp?id=52\">The physics.org web awards | Latest Features | physics.org<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The aim of physics.org has always been to help those interested in physics navigate this sea of information. Over the past few years we&#8217;ve gathered together over 4,000 of what we consider to be great webpages, and put them into our Explore database on physics.org.<\/p>\n<p>To take things one step further, this year we&#8217;re hosting our first ever physics.org web awards to give the best physics sites out there some well-deserved recognition.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/awards\">awards<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whewellsghost.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/06\/good-popular-history-of-science\/\">Good, popular history of science&#8230;. \u00c2\u00ab Whewell&#8217;s Ghost<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;However, if I am going to go on criticising bad history outside academe, I have to find something that works. I thought I would begin by asking people on Twitter what they thought. I got some great suggestions,&nbsp;some which I don&#8217;t know and can&#8217;t yet comment on and a few that I would not agree with. I was struck&nbsp;initially by two things: 1) how few of the authors were trained historians or historians of science and 2) how many of the books have long-winded subtitles (Sobel&#8217;s&nbsp;Longitude&nbsp;evidently retains its&nbsp;influence with publishers).&nbsp;&nbsp;I will discuss some of the selections further in future posts but, in the mean time, you can have a look yourself.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/chemistry\">chemistry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/7985508\/Popular-science-books-take-off-a-big-bang-in-physics-publishing.html\">Popular science books take off: a big bang in physics publishing &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate, yet we still don&#8217;t know what much of it is made of. If I had to guess, I&#8217;d say that most of it consists of books telling us that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. The soaring popularity of popular physics books is a publishing phenomenon.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2010\/09\/02\/quantum-chess-akl.html\">CBC News &#8211; Technology &amp; Science &#8211; Quantum physics adds twist to chess<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In the quantum chess computer game created by undergraduate computer science student Alice Wismath, a piece that should be a knight could simultaneously also be a queen, a pawn or something else. The player doesn&#8217;t know what the second state might be or which of the two states the piece will choose when it is moved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very weird,&#8221; said Ernesto Posse, a Queen&#8217;s postdoctoral researcher who took part in a recent &#8220;quantum chess&#8221; tournament at the university in Kingston, Ont. &#8220;You only know what a piece really is once you touch the piece. Basically, planning ahead is impossible.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/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\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/05\/books\/review\/Handy-t.html?ref=review\">Book Review &#8211; Bob Dylan In America &#8211; By Sean Wilentz &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Catty reviewer comment of the year nominee: &#8220;The only pop performer who has had as protean, as chameleon like, as resonant a career [as Bob Dylan]  is arguably Madonna, who makes up in costume changes what she lacks in lyrical acuity; but few take her seriously enough to write really poorly about her, at least among the straight white males who still make up the rock intelligentsia. 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