If you look at the schedule of events for DAMOP next week, you will see that there is a movie showing scheduled for Tuesday night: Real Genius. This seems like an excellent excuse to run a poll:
While the meeting will largely involve quantum mechanics, this is a purely classical poll, so you can choose only one answer, not a superposition of multiple answers.
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Trump went into the GOP debate last night with a roughly 20% poll standing. Everyone will tell you to ignore polls early in this race, they never predict the outcome of a primary or a general election. That, however, is a non sequitur.
Here is a nice article about Elizabeth Edwards and her new book and here is a nice interview with her.
Earlier, I reported a poll indicating that "one third of British Teachers" support teaching creationism in the classroom. I thought this was vaguely interesting, which is why I mentioned it briefly on this blog, but I put the idea of pursuing this off for a later time.
Boyda poll shows dead heat with Ryun:
During a news conference, Boyda, of Topeka, said her underdog campaign remains a dead heat.
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Is it the expurgated version? Evidently, they changed ... the body part used to hammer a nail in a two-by-four...
I like the one with the kid building a nuclear bomb better.
Would you classify that as a design problem, or a launch problem?
How many movies about laser science could there be, really?
I know it's a stretch, but lasers did play a big role in Fantastic Voyage (a much bigger role than credible science... no talk of extracting photons here).