I"m sorry the blog's been so quiet recently. With my new job, and my trip out to SF getting started at Linden these last two weeks, I've been quite busy! Things won't settle down until next week, as I'm off to the UK for the next for days for the Gruber Prize award ceremony. I'll be back next week and trying to settle into a routine, after which hopefully I'll be getting to some of my mentally queued posts including one on the Coriolis Effect, one answering common criticisms you may see about the Big Bang, and hopefully one on the bigass void that some of you have read about.
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There are 11 new articles in PLoS ONE today.
One of the annoyances of becoming an attending is the need to sign up for managed care and insurance plans. The forms are all similar, but they are sufficiently different that you can't just fill one out and be done with it.
“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.” -Thomas J. Watson
Have a nice time in the UK.
Did you see the article http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/31016 seems the chinese read your blog and have recognised that negative results in science testing/research are not a bad thing.
Oh yes, they also had an article about you and your blog :o)
I imagine you've seen most of these before, but still you may be entertained by this collection:
http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/2007/07/25/the-10-strangest-real-things-in…