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drorzel | July 18, 2008
Purdue Panel Finds Misconduct by Fusion Scientist - NYTimes.com
Expect a lawsuit in 3... 2...
(tags: physics science fraud ethics energy experiment academia stupid)
slacktivist: L.B.: Pistol-packing pacifist
"As Alice discovered in Wonderland, this kind of confident, reassured madness can be difficult to engage."
(tags: religion review books stupid politics US)
drorzel | July 17, 2008
Kieran Healy's Weblog - Elementary Particles
"Particle physics has been in the doldrums a bit lately, so they could do with some interdisciplinary reinvigoration. Also, their research budgets remain quite large."
(tags: social-science silly physics blogs)
Crooked Timber » » Necrotrends: The GOP Was The Party of Civil Rights
"So long as political considerations are divorced from concerns about biological vivification, the possibilities are endless."
(tags: politics silly stupid US)
Electron microscope sees single hydrogen atoms - physicsworld.com
"The team has also been able to watch…
drorzel | July 16, 2008
Bush Lifts Offshore Drilling Ban | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
"Is there a ban on printing more money? If so he should lift that too and fix the economy while he's at it."
(tags: silly environment energy politics)
drorzel | July 15, 2008
Packer Is Leaving CBS After Calling 34 Final Fours - NYTimes.com
Woo-hoo! Now they just need to ditch Jim Nantz.
(tags: basketball sports television)
In depth: depth of focus and depth of field « Skulls in the Stars
An explanation of why you can't get everything in your pictures in focus.
(tags: optics physics science pictures)
drorzel | July 14, 2008
FemaleScienceProfessor: No Man's Land
Why, as much as I gripe about our finance department, dealing with them is infinitely better than dealing with their research university counterparts.
(tags: academia science economics)
Thought For The Day -- Words Words Words -- The Dream Cafe Weblog
Also, things.
(tags: writing language silly)
Good Math, Bad Math : The PZ Cracker Mess
What Mark said.
(tags: blogs religion politics stupid)
Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Art Market in 2008 - July 10, 2008 - The New York Sun
"If you think that one inanimate shark is as good as another, your…
drorzel | July 13, 2008
squishable.com: they're giant round fuzzy stuffed animals. hug them.
"They're giant, round, fuzzy, stuffed animals. Hug them."
(tags: animals silly toys kid-stuff)
drorzel | July 12, 2008
Thin-film dyes boost solar cells - physicsworld.com
"Scientists in the US have shown how to multiply the power output of photovoltaic (solar) cells by up to ten times using organic dyes to concentrate sunlight."
(tags: science physics optics chemistry energy environment news)
Swans on Tea » The Right Tool For the Job
See also: Five-Minute-Epoxy.
(tags: physics science experiment silly)
Not Exactly Rocket Science : Scientists heart journalists? Plus a quick guide to dealing with the media
"[F]or readers who are keen to get the most out of your flirtations with the press, here's a quick…
drorzel | July 12, 2008A couple of links about things that have turned up in my email recently:
-- As a follow-on to yesterday's post about grad school, I got an email a little while ago about Graduate Junction, a social networking/ career building site aimed at graduate students. I'm coming up on ten years of being out of their demographic, but it looks kind of cool. If you're a grad student, you might check it out.
-- The Union of Concerned Scientists is running a cartoon contest for the best editorial cartoon about the politicization of science. They've selected a dozen finalists, and now want your vote as to…
drorzel | July 11, 2008
The Quantum Pontiff : Ways To Do Fundamental Theoretical Physics
I like option three...
(tags: science theory silly physics blogs)
» It's post-a-rejection-letter Friday! >>Nostalgia For Infinity: Literature, Gaming, Punk Rock (and all that)
"Apropos of the ridiculous focus on whether or not posting rejection letters is common practice/professional/legal/cuddly/appropriate/blue rather than on the exposure of crude and offensive racist language, I'm officially declaring it Post A Rejection L
(tags: writing SF silly race society politics)
drorzel | July 10, 2008
The Reality-Based Community: Economics and Fundamentalism
"A very hard puzzle for the intellectual historians of the future will lie in determining how economics remained the queen of the disciplines when it made so many wrong or simply irrelevant predictions."
(tags: academia economics social-science society)
drorzel | July 9, 2008
In Grad Admissions, Where Is Class? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
"A study just published in PS: Political Science and Politics suggests that in graduate departments, class may be nowhere to be found in admissions decisions."
(tags: academia class-war social-science humanities science)
Dennis Overbye -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York Times -- Reader Questions and Answers - Question - NYTimes.com
Q&A with one of the best in the business.
(tags: science journalism)
Uncool, man. Just uncool. at Tobias Buckell Online
"I've since learned…
drorzel | July 8, 2008
Vital Statistics - Summer Sports Are Among the Safest - NYTimes.com
"The snowboarding accident rate is higher than the rate for summer pastimes like boating, camping, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, swimming, and water-skiing -- combined."
(tags: statistics medicine sports science)
stand up for REAL science
"We have an obligation to our children to pursue only the best available science. We should accept nothing less than REAL science in our public school science classrooms."
(tags: science education academia society politics)
Cite Check :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source…
drorzel | July 7, 2008
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Ask and Ye Shall Receive...
Wise and worldly advice about academic job hunting.
(tags: academia jobs education)
My Semester With an Asperger Syndrome Student :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
I am somewhat uncomfortable about the fact that this article is based entirely on an assumed diagnosis, rather than any official notification.
(tags: academia education psychology ethics)
Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Why are so many Ivy League grads in jail?
(tags: academia society law culture education silly)
www.kansascity.…
drorzel | July 5, 2008
What a drag: Arago's Experiment (1810) « Skulls in the Stars
"[I]t was a failed experiment, based on incorrect theories of light propagation, which was interpreted incorrectly by Fresnel, but this incorrect interpretation helped lead to the (correct) view that light has wavelike properties!"
(tags: physics history optics astronomy precision-measurement relativity)
drorzel | July 4, 2008
Neurophilosophy : C19th Japanese anatomical scrolls
Cool anatomical paintings from 1819.
(tags: art biology Japan medicine history science pictures)
Population Density Increases in Hell § Unqualified Offerings
"They say you should speak no ill of the dead, and indeed, with dead Jesse Helms I have no beef."
(tags: US politics)
drorzel | July 3, 2008
294 - Err Lingus « Strange Maps
Aer Lingus demonstrates the fine grasp of Northeast US geography that we usually associate with Manhattanites.
(tags: silly US travel)
The Notes of Japanese soldier in USSR
Fascinating cartoons drawn by a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union.
(tags: art comics history Japan pictures war stories)
Off the Kuff: It's not a dead heat if someone is leading
Innumeracy leads to bad journalism.
(tags: math statistics politics US news stupid journalism)
A General Test of the Copernican Principle
"To date, there has been no general way of determining if the…
drorzel | July 2, 2008
The Loom : The Loom Ends. The Loom Lives!
One of ScienceBlogs' best leaves for Discover. Update your RSS readers.
(tags: blogs science journalism writing biology)
Meeting Program
The Nobel laureates in physics get together to talk shop.
(tags: physics meetings Nobel science)
nanoscale views: What makes an experiment "good"
"I think it's important, particularly since the lay public (and many journalists) don't have the background to judge realistically for themselves the difference between good and bad scientific results."
(tags: science physics experiment)
Viewbook Diversity vs. Real…
drorzel | July 1, 2008
Achieving top grades in science subjects more difficult, proves research
"On average, subjects like Physics, Chemistry and Biology at A-level are a whole grade harder than Drama, Sociology or Media Studies, and three-quarters of a grade harder than English, RE or Business Studies."
(tags: academia education science social-science humanities)
Physicists create millimeter-sized 'Bohr atom'
A press release that is remarkable for its lack of scientific detail.
(tags: physics atoms science news journalism experiment)
Scientist at Work - David Pritchard - Scientist Studies Whether Hookworms…
drorzel | June 30, 2008
What Would Jesus Do (in College)? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
A look at "challenges confronting a subset of religious colleges: Those looking to differentiate themselves from what's perceived as the prevailing norm - Christian colleges as bastions of social conservatism - without collapsing age-old faith tradi
(tags: religion academia education society US)
Report Critical of Math Teachers' Preparation :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
"The study attributes the inadequacy to a combination of low…
drorzel | June 28, 2008
I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist | Mail Online
Terrible, terrible headline for an excellent essay.
(tags: books religion literature SF science)