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drorzel | February 28, 2008
The Mentoring Gap for Women in Science :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education
"[W]omen do not perceive that they are receiving the same level of advising and mentoring as men."
(tags: academia science social-science psychology)
On being a scientist and a woman : Where, oh where, can I find my future grad students?
Help Alice Pawley recruit students for the School of Engineering Education.
(tags: academia education science)
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Abstinence-Only Driver's Ed.
"Fear not, kids: there's a time in your life when driving a car will cease…
drorzel | February 27, 2008
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Ask the Administrator: Suggestions for Research?
What should people be studying about community colleges?
(tags: academia social-science economics science)
Buying a Spot on the Syllabus :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education
"The gift in question was $1 million to Marshall's business school, from the BB&T Foundation [...] [T]he funds would support a lecture series and an upper level course that would focus on the principles of Atlas Shrugged "
(tags: academia economics humanities social-science stupid)
How…
drorzel | February 26, 2008
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Toothpaste for Dinner identifies the first application of large-scale quantum teleportation.
(tags: comics physics silly quantum)
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"Take Bigfoot. You only ever see him in campgrounds and parks: he's clearly on vacation."
(tags: basketball comics silly)
Stretching - Muscle Soreness - Injury - New York Times
"Research suggests that stretching does not affect soreness or risk of injury during exercise." I love studies that support my lazy bad habits.
(tags: sports science)
The…
drorzel | February 25, 2008
SMU's Deal With Bush :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education
'"What self-respecting university would accept a censored library?" said Rev. William McElvaney, a professor emeritus of preaching and worship at SMU's theology school, and one of the leading critics of the library.'
(tags: US politics academia stupid)
Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter
Still nothing, at higher sensitivity than ever before.
(tags: astronomy physics science news)
Engineers demonstrate a new type of optical tweezer
A press release crippled by typography,…
drorzel | February 24, 2008
Starship Kimchi: A Bold Taste Goes Where It Has Never Gone Before - New York Times
"Three top government research institutes spent millions of dollars and several years perfecting a version of kimchi that would not turn dangerous when exposed to cosmic rays or other forms of radiation and would not put off non-Korean astronauts with its
(tags: food space science)
Kenyon College - Musings: On Being Wrong
"Almost all of our ideas, in fact, turn out to be wrong. The fun and the profit lie in demolishing them as quickly as possible."
(tags: academia science physics)
drorzel | February 23, 2008
The Field » Texas Early Voting Wave as Reaction to Systemic Disenfranchisement
Prairie View students shut down a highway in order to march seven miles for early voting.
(tags: academia politics race US)
Unruled Notebook » Blog Archive » Guilty of Plagiarizing Seventy Research Papers
A chemist published seventy plagiarized papers in three years, despite the fact that "The instruments cited in his papers did not exist in the department "
(tags: academia chemistry publishing plagiarism ethics science)
Not-So-Normal Mode Decomposition
Love the title.
(tags: physics science optics articles…
drorzel | February 22, 2008
sillybean » Translation from Aburt-speak to English of selected portions of his SFWA presidential platform[1]
"I don't understand why people on the internet are so mean to me, but I fully expect that my patronizing approach will bring them to their senses."
(tags: SF writing silly politics)
Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online
"Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom."
(tags: culture economics education ethics games toys society politics)
The God Particle - National Geographic Magazine
Blah, blah, Large Hadron…
drorzel | February 21, 2008
Scientists probe fireballs with X-rays - physicsworld.com
"Theories put forward so far suggest that this "ball lightning" is either a moving electrical discharge or that it is some kind of self-contained object. Now, research from an Israeli group is making the latter seem more likely. "
(tags: physics science news experiment)
The 2008 Tournament of Books by ToB Staff - The Morning News
"The tournament doesn't begin until Friday, March 7--we'll announce the judges and brackets a week or so before that--but we like to release the book list early so the audience can start its reading and…
drorzel | February 20, 2008
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
"What do you want me to do? LEAVE?"
(tags: comics internet silly)
Researchers create 'self-healing' rubber - physicsworld.com
"If the material is snapped in half, the two torn pieces can be made to mend themselves simply by bringing the broken surfaces back in contact with each other "
(tags: science materials physics chemistry news)
Kids Today Have It So Easy... | The A.V. Club
"These days, kids have their own talking, moving, $300 robot dinosaurs that are big enough to ride."
(tags: toys stupid gadgets…
drorzel | February 19, 2008
Can Scientists Dance? -- Bohannon 319 (5865): 905b -- Science
A contest to see who could do the best interpretive dance based on their Ph.D. thesis.
(tags: academia music science video silly)
Conservatives Just Aren't Into Academe, Study Finds - Chronicle.com
"Conservative students, however, put more value on personal achievement and orderliness, and on practical professions, like accounting and computer science, that could earn them lots of money."
(tags: academia education politics statistics marriage social-science society jobs)
Photo Basement » 41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments…
drorzel | February 18, 2008
Cocktail Party Physics: built for speed: part deux
Part two of the interview with the author of "The Physics of NASCAR"
(tags: physics books sports education science)
A Gut Check Moment for SFWA
Pass the popcorn...
(tags: writing SF stupid publishing books)
Mike the Mad Biologist : Bunny Rabbits Kick Ass
Don't let Emmy see this video...
(tags: animals video youtube silly)
drorzel | February 17, 2008
The Quantum Pontiff : SqUINT Live Blogging - Saturday Talks
More updates from the cutting edge of quantum information.
(tags: quantum physics meetings science)
Cocktail Party Physics: built for speed: part one
An interview with the author of "The Physics of NASCAR"
(tags: books physics science education)
drorzel | February 16, 2008
evolgen: These Are the People at Your Departmental Seminar
A field guide to academic audiences.
(tags: academia science)
The Quantum Pontiff : SquinT Live Blogging - Friday Talks
A quick tour of the latest in quantum information.
(tags: quantum physics science academia meetings)
Accounting for general relativity at Mercury - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society
"[D]o MESSENGER's navigators have to take relativistic effects into account when they plan MESSENGER's trajectory?" Yes and no.
(tags: astronomy planets space science physics)
randompictures: Cans and Vegetables…
drorzel | February 14, 2008
The Neon Season - Things I Have Learned From Reading Children's and YA Books of Yesteryear (and sometimes of Year Now)
"1. The dog always dies."
(tags: books literature culture silly)
Talk Like A Physicist
Because we're cooler than pirates.
(tags: physics science silly)
Cocktail Party Physics: a little light housekeeping
I really like the KITP "Journal Club" idea...
(tags: physics science writing society)
The Quantum Pontiff : SquInT Live Blogging - Thursday Tutorials
His Holiness reports on the latest in quantum information.
(tags: quantum physics computing science)
Scientists Find…
drorzel | February 13, 2008
Highly Allochthonous : Battleships in space!
The importance of "Pre-Atomic" steel.
(tags: physics nuclear history science space)
Particle physicists plumb the depths for Roman lead - 13 July 1991 - New Scientist
"Pre-Atomic" steel is for wimps-- real experiments use ancient lead...
(tags: physics science nuclear history)
Jim C. Hines - The Money Post
Financial advice from a writer making much less than John Scalzi
(tags: writing publishing books SF)
ellameena: Getting a freelance career started
How to embark upon the glamorous life of a freelance writer.
(tags: writing journalism…
drorzel | February 12, 2008
Jacks of Science â Bring Love to the Lab with a Science Valentine
Love notes for the deeply dorky
(tags: silly pictures science)
telophase: AWESOMETASTIC MANGA OF AWESOMENESS
A comic book about people who REALLY love trains and the boxed lunches you can buy in Japanese train stations. Don't even try to understand it.
(tags: comics Japan silly)
Creek Running North » Am Spayed
"They call me Thistle. I find things. Sometimes the things I find are worth something. On a good day I get a percentage. "
(tags: animals blogs silly mystery)
The Popdose Guide to Tom Waits | Popdose
An album-by-…
drorzel | February 11, 2008
heathervescent: Powerpoint Karaoke - The g33k way
A new party game for geeks and academics.
(tags: academia games silly meetings)
Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money
"[W]hen it comes to money -- and specifically their own money -- writers have as much sense as chimps on crack."
(tags: writing economics)
drorzel | February 10, 2008
Clothes Make Working for the Man Easier
A better take on academic dress.
(tags: academia society)
Gotta do this « Confused at a higher level
I want those flip books...
(tags: physics education academia science)
Deltoid: Bed Nets and artemisinin dramatically decrease malaria
Good news from and for Africa.
(tags: biology drugs society disease)
On being a scientist and a woman : Alice's late-nite pointers to writing conference papers
Good advice from a new blogger
(tags: academia education meetings social-science humanities science)
ESPN - No scholarships, no fanfare, UNC's JV squad…
drorzel | February 9, 2008
Book Vs. Film Special Mega Bonus Edition: I Am Legend | The A.V. Club
An exhaustive discussion of four movie adaptations of Richard Matheson's novella.
(tags: books movies SF)
5 Retro Commercials Companies Would Like You to Forget | Cracked.com
"Come with us on a magical adventure of sexism, racism and fun!"
(tags: gender history television politics race video youtube)
How to Get an eBook of Old Man's War -- Free!
Free as in beer, free as in speech, from the nice folks at Tor.
(tags: books publishing SF literature)
drorzel | February 8, 2008
Pure Pedantry : Friday Rants: People
Bill Hicks: "We're a virus with shoes."
(tags: blogs society stupid silly)
YouTube - Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam
A cover of "Crazy" with the vocals replaced by a theremin.
(tags: music video youtube)
A Call for Professional Attire :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education
I hope this is satirical.
(tags: academia stupid)
Stanford researchers hear the sound of quantum drums
"Using a tunneling scanning microscope and two roomfuls of equipment to move around individual carbon monoxide molecules on a copper surface,…