Miscellaneous quick things that I’ve noticed this week that don’t quite rate a full post of their own:<\/p>\n
First, a couple of links from : LiveScience offer a list of “Science Myths”<\/A>, with correct explanations. It gets scare quotes because “science” is pretty broadly defined, but there’s some interesting stuff there.<\/p>\n Also from Scalzi, there’s a bubble chamber simulator<\/A>, for anyone who ever wanted to be a particle physicist. It generates particle track pictures as a sort of art form. Don’t worry, you don’t need to determine the charge and momentum of any of those aprticles. Unless you want to. You know, for fun.<\/p>\n Via Joel Gilmore’s Illuminating Science<\/A>, a company that offers to build secret passages in your house<\/A>. This is probably a very deadpan joke, but then the Internet is a strange place, and it might be real. Who can tell?<\/p>\n Do I have an overall point with this? Not so much. I’m just delaying the point when I have to go in to work on a Saturday morning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miscellaneous quick things that I’ve noticed this week that don’t quite rate a full post of their own: First, a couple of links from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![“Science Myths”<\/A>, with correct explanations. It gets scare quotes because “science” is pretty broadly defined, but there’s some interesting stuff there.<\/p>\nAlso from Scalzi, there’s a bubble chamber simulator<\/A>, for anyone who ever wanted to be a particle physicist. It generates particle track pictures as a sort of art form. Don’t worry, you don’t need to determine the charge and momentum of any of those aprticles. Unless you want to. You know, for fun.<\/p>\nVia Joel Gilmore’s Illuminating Science<\/A>, a company that offers to build secret passages in your house<\/A>. This is probably a very deadpan joke, but then the Internet is a strange place, and it might be real. Who can tell?<\/p>\nDo I have an overall point with this? Not so much. I’m just delaying the point when I have to go in to work on a Saturday morning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous quick things that I’ve noticed this week that don’t quite rate a full post of their own: First, a couple of links from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/bestimg\/result.php?back=myths_chicken_head_03.jpg&cat=myths\"){kind=link}