links for 2008-02-06

The asteroid is now officially lost.

Or, Why You Shouldn't Major in Philosophy

Steve Brust's Firefly novel, under a CC license. It's more Firefly than Brust, but still quite good.

"As part of the celebration of PRL's 50th anniversary, we will be presenting throughout 2008 a series of milestone Letters that made long-lived contributions to physics, either by announcing significant discoveries, or by initiating new areas of research.

"A new compact detector may help international inspectors peer inside a working nuclear reactor in a non-intrusive way by directly measuring the flux of anti-neutrinos coming out."