Links Dump
drorzel | November 13, 2007
Children's early academic and attention skills best predict later school success
"Behavior problems, lack of social skills not linked with later achievement." This is described as "surprising," and I can't for the life of me see why.
(tags: academia education news)
Cocktail Party Physics: the photon has two faces
Particle-wave duality, with bonus Paris Hilton
(tags: physics education quantum optics)
Overheard in New York | And Apply to Cornell
This explains a lot about non-honors chemists
(tags: silly science chemistry)
A Lineman in My Bed: Notes on Teeth Grinding - New York Times
A…
drorzel | November 12, 2007
Matthew Yglesias (November 11, 2007) - Journalism as Sadism (Media)
Why "Meet the Press" is well-nigh unwatchable.
(tags: news politics journalism television US blogs)
The Daily Politics
John Sweeney continues to show the fine grasp of political calculation that led him to be photographed at a local frat party...
(tags: politics US stupid)
Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » FaceBOOK
A call for a social networking site for academic books.
(tags: academia books computing silly)
Confessions of a Community College Dean: What Kind of Grader Are You?
The pros and cons of having your…
drorzel | November 11, 2007
ESPN Page 2 - The Sports Guy: Sore winner
Comparing the Pats to the Allied POWs in Victory isn't over-the-top, is it?
(tags: football sports silly movies)
The Associated Press: Donors Bid Millions NOT to Rename School
The proper way to fend off unappealing naming rights problems
(tags: sports academia economics)
drorzel | November 9, 2007
The Associated Press: Judge Rules on What Makes a Poem
"Keenan's 79-page decision included legal and literary history. He offered a brief description of Parker -- "the famous writer who was a member of the Algonquin Round Table" -- and a detailed summary of what constitutes a poem."
(tags: culture literature books law)
Two-Proton Correlations in the Decay of [sup 45]Fe
The journal article mentioned in yesterday's links dump
(tags: physics experiment nuclear articles)
drorzel | November 8, 2007
Robert Donoghue - Hunting Vegetarians with Ted Nugent
Anthony Bourdain rediscovers Furr's Law
(tags: food blogs computing society silly)
Dynamics of Cats : "Rocketeers" - a Review
This is exactly rocket science
(tags: space books review)
NOVA | Intelligent Design on Trial | PBS
We'll see if I remember to watch this
(tags: biology education law science television religion politics)
Universe could have a fifth less mass than current estimates - physicsworld.com
Of course, a 20% error is still precision measurement in astronomy...
(tags: astronomy news science mass)
Congressional…
drorzel | November 7, 2007
ABC News: Police: Students Used Cookies to Torture
"Ill. College Students Accused of Kidnapping, Battery With Freshly Baked Cookies" The world is a strange and disturbing place.
(tags: news stupid drugs)
mmcirvin: A strange map: UFO sightings in the US
Why don't people in the South see UFO's?
(tags: space science silly US)
The National Geographic Online Store - Remote-controlled Tarantulas
"Because their eight legs move separately, be prepared for screams when one scuttles realistically from beneath the table."
(tags: animals silly)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education -…
drorzel | November 6, 2007
The Claim: Zinc Can Help You Beat a Cold - New York Times
Old joke: With our product, you can cure a cold in just seven days, but left untreated, it could linger for a week!
(tags: medicine science)
Tara Parker-Pope on Health - Teenagers and Sex - New York Times
"The lesson for public health workers is that hip-hop is not just music but a support system and social structure that dominates youth culture, Dr. Muñoz-Laboy said. "
(tags: medicine science society news)
Cognitive Dissonance - Social Psychology - New York Times
"We tend to think people have an explicit agenda to rewrite…
drorzel | November 5, 2007
Gesturing helps grade-schoolers solve math problems
Hand-waving is the key to any calculation.
(tags: academia education math)
Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » In Which I Pick Some Nits
A historian reads Novik's Temeraire books.
(tags: books SF)
slacktivist: Gay-Hatin' Gospel (pt. 5)
The conclusion of the series: "I think it has very little to do with religion and everything to do with politics."
(tags: politics religion US gender culture society)
slacktivist
"It reminds me, somehow, of a little kid doing art therapy in the school guidance counselor's office, drawing elaborately…
drorzel | November 4, 2007
Recommendations of SFWA Copyright Exploratory Committee
How... distressingly sensible. Where's the train wreck I've come to expect from SFWA?
(tags: SF books)
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Unparadox Contest
"[T]he Birthday Unparadox: 'If you put three people in a room, chances are no two of them will have the same birthday.'"
(tags: physics math silly computing)
Teamwork increases student learning and career success
"A two-year study of college students at The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) proves that students learn better and develop higher-level skills by participating in…
drorzel | November 2, 2007
Children's friendships matter in the scramble for secondary schools
"Until now, work in this area has had little emphasis on children's own experiences." Everything that's wrong with education research, in one short sentence.
(tags: education psychology society)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: New Numbers on Underrepresented Faculty Members
Data!
(tags: gender race academia politics science)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: A Satisfied Full-Time Faculty
We love our jobs
(tags: academia)
UK scientists working…
drorzel | November 1, 2007
Neanderthal Bones Make a Case for Redheads - New York Times
Make up your own Irish joke.
(tags: science news biology)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Teaching Professors to Be More Effective Teachers
Targeted efforts to teach how to read scholarly texts pay of
(tags: academia education news science)
In Students' Eyes, Look-Alike Lawyers Don't Make the Grade - New York Times
Stanford law students grade major firms on diversity. Via Facebook, of all places.
(tags: law academia gender diversity society)
The trouble with indie rock. - By Carl Wilson…
drorzel | October 31, 2007
Overheard in New York | The Giant Ones Who Live in the Sewers Are Especially Nasty
A little something for the atheists.
(tags: silly religion)
Pure Pedantry : The Moral Problem of New Atheism vs. Religion -or- The Majesty of Creation
ScienceBlogs' best writer on science and religion and politics.
(tags: religion politics science)
D-squared Digest -- FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else
"Avoiding Projects Pursued By Morons 101"
(tags: economics politics Iraq war)
What is Statistically Significant?
Bet you didn't think you could give a non-…
drorzel | October 30, 2007
Aspie-quiz
Do you have an autism-spectrum disorder, or are you neurotypical and just kind of an asshole? (via Scalzi)
(tags: science psychology society blogs)
The Dragaeran Cycle of Houses by ~Silversaff on deviantART
So... A lyorn is a Labrador Retriever with a horn?
(tags: books art SF)
Laelaps : The good, the bad, and the blurry: Wildlife Photography
Lots of cute animal pictures, and instructions on how to take your own
(tags: animals pictures blogs)
Researchers show evidence of 'memory' in cells and molecules
Not to be mistaken for homeopathy
(tags: chemistry biology science news…
drorzel | October 29, 2007
The Washington Monthly
Paul Glastris goes on the Colbert Report: "[I]t's a bit disconcerting to be twelve inches away from a guy who's doing a very believable impression of a total lunatic."
(tags: politics silly television)
Whatever: Football With Jesus
Why you shouldn't let Christ in your Pop Warner league.
(tags: football religion silly blogs)
GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL SERVICES
Librarian humor at its best
(tags: silly books literature)
drorzel | October 28, 2007
NIST demos industrial-grade nanowire device fabrication
A method that produces nanowires in specific places with specific orientations.
(tags: physics materials experiment science news)
Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'
Graphits sheets wrap around and shed pieces, eventually leaving a sphere. With obligatory YouTube link.
(tags: materials physics experiment science news youtube)
American kids, dumber than dirt / Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history
"We are, as far as urban public education is concerned, essentially at rock…
drorzel | October 26, 2007
slacktivist: Gay-hatin' Gospel (pt. 4)
Blogdom's best writer on religion and politics continues his series on why evangelicals are so hostile to gays.
(tags: religion society politics gender)
It Is Written - Books & Culture
Christianity Today reviews The Year of Living Biblically
(tags: culture religion books review society)
Casimir Forces between Arbitrary Compact Objects
A new theoretical approach for a fiendishly difficult problem
(tags: physics quantum articles science theory)
Experimental Violation of Bell's Inequality in Spatial-Parity Space
A new system, closer than most to…
drorzel | October 25, 2007
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: 'Inside Greek U.'
Surprisingly sensible comments about a new book on fraternities and sororities
(tags: academia education books)
Books: The Musical Mystique
"The discourse supporting classical music so reeks of historical blindness and sanctimonious self-regard as to render the object of its ministrations practically indefensible."
(tags: music books review)
denialism blog : Phenomenon: It's just magic tricks (and not very good ones)
Mark Hoofnagle watches psychic tv so you don't have to.
(tags: stupid television…
drorzel | October 24, 2007
Welcome to Syracuse University News.
"Andrea Farina, a senior communications design major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' School of Art and Design, won the World Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) Championship"
(tags: silly sports)
Cocktail Party Physics: just an ordinary man
Celebrating 50 years of the Bardenn-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity.
(tags: physics quantum Nobel science low-temperature)
Three first-ever atomic nuclei created at NSCL; new super-heavy aluminum isotopes may exist
Exotic nuclei created at Michigan State
(tags: physics experiment nuclear science…
drorzel | October 23, 2007
slacktivist: Gay-Hatin' Gospel (pt. 3)
Part three of Fred Clark's look at why evangelicals are so anti-gay.
(tags: religion politics blogs US gender)
The Big Three
How important are the major SF magazines, anyway?
(tags: SF books literature)
Evolving Thoughts
A taxonomy, of sorts.
(tags: religion science)
james_nicoll: How to save the SF magazines
A modest proposal.
(tags: SF silly books literature)
Nuclear power worldwide: status and outlook
Facts and figures from the IAEA
(tags: energy environment news science)
Uranium isotope ratios are not invariant, researchers show
The ratio…
drorzel | October 22, 2007
Cocktail Party Physics: they do it with mirrors
What's up with those "It's the mirrors" commercials for DLP. Still no explanation of the elephant.
(tags: physics industry science materials gadgets)
A.C.C. Teams Thinking About the Final Four Already - New York Times
Let's not get ahead of ourselves...
(tags: basketball)
Harvard University engineers demonstrate quantum cascade laser nanoantenna
Building an antenna directly on the fact of a QC laser can produce sub-wavelength scale spots.
(tags: physics quantum optics experiment gadgets)
Election fix? Switzerland Tests Quantum…