Submission Form "Use this form to nominate a blog post for The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2008. " (tags: science blogs books) BuyMyShitPile.com: Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too? "Use the form below to submit bad assets you’d like the government to take off your hands. And remember,… Continue reading links for 2008-09-23
Month: September 2008
Drop and Give Me Twenty
Baby push-ups! She can’t maintain it for all that long, but SteelyKid can manage to push herself up and take a look around, when placed on her stomach. This is definite progress from a week or so ago.
Science Majors Follow-Up
I meant to follow up on some of the comments to my post calling for more science majors last week, but we had some Issues Thursday night, and I didn’t get to it on Friday. There were a number of people making negative comments about things that weren’t quite what I was saying, though, and… Continue reading Science Majors Follow-Up
How to Get Tenure: Stop Worrying About Tenure
Your must-read academic link of the week is today’s Inside Higher Ed article by Gary Lewandoski, with the provocative title: Stop Trying to Get Tenure and Start Trying to Enjoy Yourself. His thesis is pretty much clear from the title: When I started my own tenure-track position I had the same questions. I perused published… Continue reading How to Get Tenure: Stop Worrying About Tenure
links for 2008-09-22
Making kinematics graphs in Excel | Dot Physics Important tips on making a graph with Excel. (tags: physics education computing blogs science) Robert Hughes on Damien Hirst’s upcoming Sotheby’s auction | Art and design | The Guardian "Where you see Hirsts you will also see Jeff Koons’s balloons, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s stoned scribbles, Richard Prince’s feeble… Continue reading links for 2008-09-22
Cocktail Party Variance
With the LHC starting up last week, this week’s Saturday science video on bloggingheads.tv had a physics theme, with Sean and Jennifer getting together to chat about physics, calculus, and poker. It’s good stuff, and I was surprised to hear my own name appear in the middle of it. Unfortunately, the idea Jennifer cites me… Continue reading Cocktail Party Variance
The Football Factor
Charles Kuffner is the latest to note that people would rather watch football with Obama than McCain. As always, they try to delve into the reasons: “I think he’d be fun to sit back with and hear his experiences, all his stories,” said Kyle Ferguson, 28, a Republican from Santa Rosa, Calif., who picked McCain.… Continue reading The Football Factor
Yemen
And now, a report from Uncertain Principles’s Senior Middle East Correspondent, checking in from Yemen in the wake of the attack on the US Embassy there: For years, the Yemeni government has let some al-Qaida figures and other Islamic extremists go free in political deals hoping to keep them quiet. Now it finds itself having… Continue reading Yemen
The Liberal Media Hasten the Red Revolution
… at least, that’s the only reason I can think of for ABC News to run a story on the effects of the financial crisis containing the following: “A lot of those people will have to sell their homes, they’re going to cut back on the private jets and the vacations. They may even have… Continue reading The Liberal Media Hasten the Red Revolution
links for 2008-09-21
HAMLET (FACEBOOK NEWS FEED EDITION). Written by Sarah Schmelling. "Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind." (tags: books literature internet silly culture pictures) BBspot – Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute Ready to Start “Squirrel Smasher” "Scientists currently rely on computer simulations to smash biological units, but simulations can only do so… Continue reading links for 2008-09-21