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drorzel | December 4, 2007
Yahhhhhhh: Canadian PSAs Are Clearly Not Messing Around
Canadians are terrifying
(tags: video youtube television Canada)
"Dinosaur Mummy" Found; Has Intact Skin, Tissue
A surprisingly intact hadrosaur provides all sorts of interesting information
(tags: biology dinosaurs news science)
Why do high school seniors drink?
"New study identifies 4 major motivators to drink alcohol -- 1 of them could be a sign of problem drinking." How is this news?
(tags: education science news society US)
Cheap Toy Round-Up 2007 | The A.V. Club
"As we do every year, The A.V. Club has scoured the bargain…
drorzel | December 3, 2007
Ralph Asher Alpher - Physics Today December 2007
A very nice obituary
(tags: astronomy physics)
Chemical & Engineering News - ACS News - Class Of 2006 Salaries And Jobs
The overall situation is pretty good, but Ph.D. Salaries dropped somewhat.
(tags: chemistry academia news jobs)
MIT sculpts 3-D particles with light
Rapid production off micron -scale particles using Continuous flow Lithography
(tags: materials chemistry physics science news)
Tonight, thank God it's them instead of you: 16 morally dubious holiday entertainments | The A.V. Club
"Macaulay Culkin, as abandoned kid…
drorzel | December 2, 2007
Hamlet - The Text Adventure
"It's so unfair! You're in trouble again, just because you called your uncle - or rather, your new stepfather, Claudius - a usurping git."
(tags: games internet literature silly)
YouTube - The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa
Silly spoof Christmas song video, featuring Brandon Flowers in a tragic sweater.
(tags: youtube video music silly)
Dynamical Control of Matter-Wave Tunneling in Periodic Potentials
Shaking a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice can stop the atoms from moving through the lattice.
(tags: physics experiment low-temperature news…
drorzel | December 1, 2007
Amazon.com: Uranium Ore: Electronics
"When mixed with Tuscan whole milk I gained the power to control deceased woodland creatures. I am now in the process of raising an army of undead wombats to overthrow the government from deep within my volcanic lair. "
(tags: silly internet)
FilmChat: Philip Pullman -- the extended e-mail interview
Phillip Pullman on the upcoming movie of The Golden Compass, and His Dark MAterials generally. Less crazy than some of his other interviews.
(tags: books literature movies religion culture society)
Second Sight
Rob Knop's new digs.
(tags: blogs computing…
drorzel | November 30, 2007
The Washington Monthly
"It turns out that the only thing these GOP voters hated more than helping the poor was being told that it's wrong to torture people." Whee!
(tags: politics US)
The Wetzel plan - NCAA Football - Yahoo! Sports
This is far too sensible to ever happen.
(tags: football sports stupid)
Off the Kuff: Just hear those sleigh bells jingling...again and again
Exactly how sick of "Jingle Bell Rock" are you going to be by December 25th? Charles Kuffner does the math...
(tags: music stupid culture society)
Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » After You, Alphonse
"Why can't…
drorzel | November 29, 2007
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Spray-Painting Pynchon
"The quality of them is not the greatest. This is obviously not a professional tagger," he said. "English majors and graffiti artists generally don't seem to be the same demographic."
(tags: silly literature books academia)
drorzel | November 28, 2007
Lucas: More evidence of the talent gap between the Big Ten and ACC
"Instead of the annual bloodletting, otherwise known as the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, maybe a Big Ten/MEAC Challenge would help bolster the ego"
(tags: basketball)
Spoof London Underground Announcements - Emma Clarke Voiceover and Writer
"We'd like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud."
(tags: silly)
Student research makes the pages of top scientific journal
Example 1 in the class on "How Not to Write a Useful Headline for a Press Release." The actual paper is about geology,…
drorzel | November 27, 2007
John Cusack | The A.V. Club
"You try to make it as good as you can, but with an action movie or whatever it is, you're doing it so you can get leverage to go do Grace Is Gone or whatever these other ones are. So there's a ceiling on how good you can make something."
(tags: movies culture)
Carnegie's Vera Rubin to receive Richtmyer Award
A well deserved astrophysics prize
(tags: astronomy physics science news)
'High Q' NIST nanowires may be practical oscillators
Micron-scale wires that vibrate for more than a million oscilaltions before damping out.
(tags: physics materials science news…
drorzel | November 26, 2007
Alliance Announces 2nd Annual High School Essay Contest | Alliance For Science
Write about evolution, win money (if you're a high school student, anyway).
(tags: science education biology politics)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Benefits for Pets, Not Partners
A new low in contemptuous policies towards gays
(tags: politics gender academia)
Do middle-school students understand how well they actually learn?
Rule of thumb: If the title is a quest-on, the answer is "no."
(tags: education news psychology science)
newsrack blog
Are the His Dark…
drorzel | November 25, 2007
outside the (toy) box » Little Man. Watching My Son's Socialization. or "Gender - it's wicked constructed"
Gender socialization through toys.
(tags: gender society toys)
Giro.org » The Big Scary Idea
A modest proposal for bringing the SF magazines into the Century of the Fruitbat
(tags: books SF)
Looking for 'Green' Lights in the Suburbs - New York Times
I am shocked-- shocked!-- to learn that suburban zoning restrictions are often a barrier to sensible development.
(tags: US politics environment energy society)
kidcyclone: How to Be A Topp Fledgling (With apologies to Molesworth)…
drorzel | November 23, 2007
Web Log -- Charles Bernstein: "Doping Scandal Rocks Poetry
'Cooper pairs' can be found in insulators as well superconductors
They explain superconductivity, and also some insulating behavior-- is there anything they can't do?
(tags: physics quantum experiment science news)
Have we sealed the universe's fate by looking at it?
In which the Quantum Zeno Effect applied to the entire universe, and wackiness ensues
(tags: physics quantum science news astronomy theory)
High-Tc superconductors plug 'terahertz gap' - physicsworld.com
A possible way to generate coherent radiation in the useful…
drorzel | November 22, 2007
[0711.0745] Imaging the Internal Structure of the Earth with Atmospheric Neutrinos
"The absorption of neutrinos with energies in excess of 10 TeV when traversing the Earth is capable of revealing its density distribution."
(tags: physics theory articles science)
mmcirvin: Retract your ad homonyms
Matt McIrvin explains a classic of Usenet debate.
(tags: politics blogs computing)
Berry's phase seen in solid-state qubit - physicsworld.com
I've never understood Berry's Phase, and now I can not understand it as applied to quantum computing.
(tags: physics experiment computing quantum science…
drorzel | November 21, 2007
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: More Doctors of Philosophy (and Science)
The number of Ph.D.'s awarded goes up, but most of the increase is among foreign-born researchers.
(tags: academia US education)
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Access and Limits
A "law and order liberal" on access to higher education
(tags: academia economics class-war politics)
I has a icecap. « Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Noo they be stealin' my icecap!
(tags: environment pictures silly)
Matthew Yglesias (November 21, 2007) - The…
drorzel | November 20, 2007
Crooked Timber » » Disciplines and deterrence
A brief history of shoddy death penalty scholarship.
(tags: economics academia politics society US)
New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns - New York Times
Let's all take a few minutes to appreciate the accomplishment here, before getting all worked up about the political implications.
(tags: biology science news)
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Chaucer the Holy-Wood Scabbe
It peyneth me soore to be an scabbe and an protest-lyne crosser, but my sone wisheth to goon to Oxford and my wyf desireth a patio. Forgive me, o ye merveillous…
drorzel | November 19, 2007
5 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Must Be Stopped | Cracked.com
'How the project obtained funding for their proposal, entitled "give diamond-hard skin and superhuman strength to angry young ethnic convicts" is yet another prime example of the dangerous incompetence of the Nixon administration.'
(tags: movies comics stupid)
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Presidents on Allowances
The Dean Dad calls for an end to the practice of giving college presidents cars and houses
(tags: academia economics education)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed ::…
drorzel | November 18, 2007
These Scientific Minds Think (and Drink) Alike - New York Times
Scientists acting like rock stars. Buckaroo Banzai, call your agent.
(tags: science society culture)
In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses - New York Times
You'll be shocked--shocked!-- to learn that neither Kate nor I have one of the 5,000 most common surnames in the US.
(tags: society silly)
drorzel | November 17, 2007
Backreaction: Universal Scaling at Deadlines
"[Physicists] have analysed the distribution of registrations for two conferences...[and] they can describe this distribution by a simple model, assuming that the 'pressure to register' is inversely proportional to the time left before the deadline."
(tags: science silly physics meetings)
Dinosaur Interactive - National Geographic Magazine
An interactive guide to "bizarre" dinosaurs and their features. Via Laelaps.
(tags: animals science dinosaurs)
'Nanosoldering' makes a clean contact - physicsworld.com
I can barely cope with the normal-size…
drorzel | November 16, 2007
Court Rejects Fuel Standards on Trucks - New York Times
The decision is not what I expected, given that headline, but hey, it's the Ninth Circuit...
(tags: environment news politics)
YouTube - Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer
"What do the writers of the Daily Show think of the ongoing writers' strike? If only there were some way to find out..."
(tags: youtube news politics video culture silly class-war)
Bruce fills stage, thrills devoted -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
The local media weighs in on the concert Kate and I saw, including pictures. Look quickl, before it goes behind…
drorzel | November 15, 2007
Environment plays key role in children's readiness for school
"Genetic factors played a significant role in the children's core abilities underlying the four components of school readiness, but the environment shared by twins of the same family remained the most important factor overall."
(tags: education science news)
White children more positive toward blacks after learning about racism, study shows
It's amazing how many education research results seem to come from the "Journal of Well, Duh!"
(tags: education science news)
phishhook.com :: View topic - Charts and graphs of rap song…
drorzel | November 14, 2007
Freshman's 3-Pointer Helps Lift Syracuse - New York Times
A typical beginning of the season
(tags: basketball)
Relativity passes new test of time - physicsworld.com
Precision spectroscopy of lithium ions in a storage ring confirm time dilation. That's a relief.
(tags: physics science experiment news relativity)
Donate to the Jhereg Foundation
Steven Brust needs money to pay medical bills. Also, you should buy his books.
(tags: books medicine)
Negative refraction 'could trap rainbows' - physicsworld.com
A proposal of a scheme for "stopping" light inside a negative-index metamaterial.
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