TODAYMoms – Want another bedtime story, sweetie? Here’s one: ‘Go the F@#k to Sleep’ “The cats nestle close to their kittens. The lambs have laid down with the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear Please go the f@#k to sleep.” (tags: kid-stuff books silly sleep)
Author: Chad Orzel
Academic Poll: Humans vs. Zombies
Union’s edition of the chase-each-other-with-Nerf-guns game Humans vs. Zombies kicks off next week, and has prompted some discussion of whether this is just a harmless way of blowing off steam, or an existential threat to the core mission of academia. While some of this has been vaguely entertaining, it ignores the really important question: Who… Continue reading Academic Poll: Humans vs. Zombies
Hugo Nominations: Meh
The nominees for the 2011 Hugo Awards were released on Sunday, which is the sort of thing I usually blog about here, so you might think it’s just our flaky DSL that’s kept me from saying anything about it. that’s only part of the story, though. I haven’t said anything about them in large part… Continue reading Hugo Nominations: Meh
Ba-Ba-Ba BAAAA Ba, Ba-Ba-Ba BAA Ba-Ba Ba-Ba Ba (BOM BOM): National Geographic and ScienceBlogs
It’s been in the works for a while, but a couple of days ago the news got out via the usual combination of rumor-mongering and confidentiality-breaking that makes blogdom such a joy to work with (seriously, you want to know why it’s hard to get mainstream media types to take bloggers seriously, or keep bloggers… Continue reading Ba-Ba-Ba BAAAA Ba, Ba-Ba-Ba BAA Ba-Ba Ba-Ba Ba (BOM BOM): National Geographic and ScienceBlogs
Links for 2011-04-27
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science As someone who blogs about science and occasionally about politics, I am contractually obligated to link to this article. Fortunately, it’s also good and interesting. (tags: psychology science politics neuroscience climate vaccine culture society cog-sci medicine magazines) The Non-Science That Explains What’s Wrong with Science Explaining Non-Belief… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-27
Links for 2011-04-26
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies “A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-26
Treating Photons Like Atoms: “Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity”
This paper made a big splash back in November, with lots of news stories talking about it; it even made the #6 spot on Physics World‘s list of breakthroughs of the year. I didn’t write it up then because I was hellishly busy, and couldn’t take time away from working on the book-in-progress to figure… Continue reading Treating Photons Like Atoms: “Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity”
Support the National Center for Science Education
I try not to do any shilling for political groups on the blog, but I’ll make an exception for the National Center for Science Education. Why? Three reasons: 1) They do good and important, if not always glamorous work, supporting the teaching of evolution in public schools, both in the classroom and in the courts.… Continue reading Support the National Center for Science Education
Ask the Internet: DSL Service Question
Our home Internet has been out since Friday, which is, as you might imagine, somewhat vexing. The most likely cause is that our DSL modem is dying (it’s nine years old), which raises a technical problem. A few years ago, when we last had a problem requiring a service call, the tech who came out… Continue reading Ask the Internet: DSL Service Question
Links for 2011-04-25
The Management Myth – Magazine – The Atlantic “The recognition that management theory is a sadly neglected subdiscipline of philosophy began with an experience of déjà vu. As I plowed through my shelfload of bad management books, I beheld a discipline that consists mainly of unverifiable propositions and cryptic anecdotes, is rarely if ever held… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-25