{"id":5466,"date":"2011-03-18T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/18\/links-for-2011-03-18\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:44:24","slug":"links-for-2011-03-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/18\/links-for-2011-03-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-03-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevirtuosi.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/physics-challenge-award-show.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheVirtuosi+%28The+Virtuosi%29&amp;utm_content=Twitter\">The Virtuosi: Physics Challenge Award Show<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;So before we officially announce our winner, let&#8217;s backtrack and build up some suspense. &nbsp;The challenge was to come up with a bunch of MacGyveresque experiments to determine as closely as possible the standard second, meter and kilogram using only the materials handy to you on a desert [3] island. <\/p>\n<p>Just about every response we got successfully answered the question, so we had to base our final result on robustness and uncertainties. &nbsp;We also tended to favor those that did not rest on precise knowledge of one&#8217;s own height, weight, etc (though there is nothing wrong with these approaches). &nbsp;So without further ado, the winner is&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/virtusoi\">virtusoi<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/awards\">awards<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/outreach\">outreach<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/precision-measurement\">precision-measurement<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org\/2011\/03\/improvising-science.html\">The Science and Entertainment Exchange: The X-Change Files: Improvising Science<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Could improvisational theater help scientists communicate more effectively? If Alan Alda has anything to say about it, yes. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/communication\">communication<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/x-change\">x-change<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/theater\">theater<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/playbook\/2011\/03\/physics-basketball-shots\/all\/1\">Dissecting the Physics of Basketball Bank Shots | Playbook<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Here&#8217;s the scenario: You&#8217;re a college basketball player and your team is down by one. You&#8217;ve got a trip to the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament on the line, but the clock shows less than three seconds. After your teammate passes you the ball, you dribble twice, pump-fake the defender, and throw up a jumpshot that could win the game.<\/p>\n<p>Now, do you shoot the ball straight at the rim or aim for the backboard? According to researchers at North Carolina State, you better try to bank it in.<\/p>\n<p>After analyzing computer-generated 3-D simulations of more than 1 million basketball shots, a team led by NC State&#8217;s Larry Silverberg determined that, while it does vary, there are large, identifiable areas on the court where a bank shot can be up to 20 percent more successful than attempting a direct swish.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/basketball\">basketball<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/wired\">wired<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtuosi: Physics Challenge Award Show &#8220;So before we officially announce our winner, let&#8217;s backtrack and build up some suspense. &nbsp;The challenge was to come up with a bunch of MacGyveresque experiments to determine as closely as possible the standard second, meter and kilogram using only the materials handy to you on a desert [3]&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/18\/links-for-2011-03-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-03-18<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}