ScienceBlogs has just redesigned the main site. Sort of. The change is subtle enough that you might not notice it– the only real difference on the front page is that the “channel” list has been reorganized– it’s now slightly shorter, and some old channels have been combined into new ones. There are two practical advantages… Continue reading Redecorating ScienceBlogs
Month: October 2007
links for 2007-10-16
Edge-Serpentine Gallery: FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Equations as art objects (via Cosmic Variance) (tags: science art blogs) Marginal Revolution: Mechanism Design for Grandma The Economics Nobel explained (tags: economics Nobel news)
Make Me Suffer (for Charity)
At the time of this writing (about 8:20 on Monday), my DonorsChoose challenge entry stands at $2,802, nearly double last year’s take. That’s outstanding, and I thank everyone who contributed. Of course, I set a Challenge goal of $6,000, which means we’re not quite halfway there. Which means I need to come up with some… Continue reading Make Me Suffer (for Charity)
Non-Dorky Poll: Monkey Power!
This is the famous carving of the Three Wise Monkeys on the stable at the Nikko Tosho-gu: Looking at that suggests a possible question for a non-dorky poll, analogous to the dork classic “what superpower would you want?”: If you could go through life either seeing no evil, hearing no evil, or speaking no evil,… Continue reading Non-Dorky Poll: Monkey Power!
Announcing the Uncertain Principles Physics Scholarship Program
In the spirit of the newly clarified regulations governing the Academic Competitiveness Grant and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant Programs administered by the Department of Education, I am pleased to announce the Uncertain Principles Physics Scholarship Program. Under this program, I pledge to personally pay the full tuition for any… Continue reading Announcing the Uncertain Principles Physics Scholarship Program
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007
The weekend interrupted the parade of Nobel prizes, setting apart The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, more commonly called the Nobel in Economics (even though it’s a late addition). This goes to three guys in the US, including the obligatory Chicagoan: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, and Roger… Continue reading The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007
links for 2007-10-15
Friends, not policies, win elections – Physics World – physicsworld.com I am shocked– shocked!– to learn that voters don’t always elect the candidate woth the best policies. (tags: politics physics stupid journals) C. Sample Citation and Introduction to Citing Blogs For those times when you want to use a LOLcat in a Science article… (via… Continue reading links for 2007-10-15
Energy-Efficient Appliance Question
So, we’d like to get a new refirgerator (our current refrigerator is pretty old and beat. When the compressor kicks on, the lights in the living room flicker, and the shelf on the inside of the door is broken, which greatly reduces the useful storage space.), and being good liberal types, we’d like something energy-efficient.… Continue reading Energy-Efficient Appliance Question
NFL Open Thread
I’ve been largely silent about the NFL for the past couple of weeks, mostly because I don’t know what to make of anything that’s happening. I only saw the first half of last week’s Giants game, where it looked like they had reverted to their early-season form, but then they exploded in the second half,… Continue reading NFL Open Thread
New-ish Blog, Small World
I’m cleaning out some old saved items from my RSS feeds, to prepare for some changes at ScienceBlogs, and one of the items I had marked but never done anything with was an announcement of the launch of Correlations, a group blog from Wired Science and PBS. It suffers a bit from the Wired aesthetic… Continue reading New-ish Blog, Small World