Overheard in New York | History Is an Unbroken Chain of Irony (tags: silly) YouTube – Cowboy Bebop AMV – Woolongs for Nothing A classic Dire Straits video redone with Cowboy Bebop characters (tags: anime music youtube silly)
Month: October 2007
LOLEmmy: Solvay It’s Not
Here’s another installment in the payoff for Rajesh Vaidya’s donation. This is one of a bunch of pictures Kate took of me and Emmy playing on the floor: This sort of looks like it ought to be a scene from one of our physics conversations, so here’s my lame attempt at a caption:
More DonorsChoose Incentives
You may or may not have noticed the appearance of large banner ads promoting the ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose EccentricCapitalization Challenge. If you haven’t, they go to this page explaining the challenge and offering valuable prizes. If you’d like to increase the range of swag you can obtain for your donation, head on over there and check… Continue reading More DonorsChoose Incentives
LOLEmmy: Unsatisfactory Toys
It’s Saturday, and it’s Homecoming weekend at Union, so I’ll be over on campus watching sporting events for a good chunk of the day. That means it’s a perfect time to pay off another blog purchase, this one from Rajesh Vaidya who asked for LOLEmmys, at least five pictures worth. There are two problems with… Continue reading LOLEmmy: Unsatisfactory Toys
links for 2007-10-13
Nonlocal Quantum Effects with Bose-Einstein Condensates New theoretical resutls having to do with measurements of particles in two independent condensates show some cool quantum effects (tags: physics quantum science articles) Finite-Temperature Collective Dynamics of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover Experimental resuts looking at fermionic atoms near the transition analogoue to that in a… Continue reading links for 2007-10-13
DonorsChoose Incentive: Quantum Physics and Free Will
I promised a while back to write a post on a topic of your choosing, in exchange for a $30 donation to my DonorsChoose challenge. I’ve got a fair number of requests, and I should really start paying them off. The first one comes from Ewan McNay, who aks: what quantum mechanics can tell us… Continue reading DonorsChoose Incentive: Quantum Physics and Free Will
European Nobels in Perspective
There’s been a bunch of talk about the apparent European dominance in Nobel Prizes this year, and whether it means that American science is in decline, blah, blah, blah. I’m a little surprised at this– nobody took last year’s abundance of American laureates as a sign of the collapse of European science, after all– but… Continue reading European Nobels in Perspective
White House: “More Study Needed” on Gore Nobel
(WASHINGTON, DC) On the heels of reports from Oslo that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former US Vice President Al Gore, a White House spokesman issued a statement saying that “significant uncertainty” remained regarding the recipient of the prize. “The President feels that… Continue reading White House: “More Study Needed” on Gore Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize: IPCC and Al Gore
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced this morning, and will be split between an international panel and everybody’s favorite PowerPoint presenter: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore… Continue reading Nobel Peace Prize: IPCC and Al Gore
links for 2007-10-12
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 – Speed Read The Nobel committee explains the Chemistry prize (tags: chemistry Nobel science news) PhysicsCentral: Nanobowl Video Contest: Win World’s Smallest Trophy! Make a YouTube video showing the physics of football, win a nanoscale trophy (tags: youtube science physics football sports) Freaky Ninja Turtle Dog Click the image… Continue reading links for 2007-10-12