SteelyKid has developed a bunch of new skills recently, which she shows off in this video of her sitting up like a big girl, and pulling toys out of her shape sorter box: (Thanks to Ewan and Jenny for the shape sorter box, by the way. It’s pretty much the ultimate dog toy (a selection […]
Month: March 2009
links for 2009-03-28
The Washington Monthly "All of that’s changing, slowly but surely. The GOP lock on evangelicals is loosening. Poverty and global warming are just as serious for many younger evangelicals as whether two consenting adults of the same gender can get married. And Pat Robertson’s Regent University has an official student organization for Democrats." (tags: blogs […]
Tolkien Not Religious?
Arts & Letters Daily had a link to a City Journal article about religious symbolism in science fiction, which attempts to claim that there has been a recent swing toward Christian symbolism in the genre (at least, in movie and television SF– the only books mentioned are forty-ish years old). There are a number of […]
Physics Video Quiz
OK, “quiz” isn’t really the right word, because I don’t know the right answer. But here’s something weird that I noticed a while ago, and since I needed an excuse to fool around with video a bit, I thought I’d shoot some pictures of it: Here’s the deal: My cell phone is gently curved on […]
Tunguska Explained… Again
The Tuguska event of 1908 is one of the most frequently “explained” events in recent history, trailing only the Kennedy assassination. The arXiv blog reports on the latest explanation of what knocked down all those trees without making a giant crater: Now a new analysis by Edward Drobyshevski of the Russian Academy of Sciences in […]
links for 2009-03-27
Jets Attempt To Trade Mannequin Dressed As Favre For Jay Cutler | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source "The Jets refuse to drop their offer and have sweetened it with the addition of a dog in a Jerricho Cotchery jersey." (tags: silly football sports onion) Kung Fu Monkey: Ephemera 2009 (7) "There are two […]
Thursday Baby Wrestling 032609
Tonight on Thursday Night Wrestling: SteelyKid versus Sky Bison! Roar! Roar! ROAR!
Obligatory Freeman Dyson Link
As a scientist with a blog, I am apparently contractually obligated to link to the New York Times Magazine profile of Freeman Dyson. If I don’t, they’ll take away my privileges as a scientist. (Of course, since those consist mostly of the right to review grant applications for the NSF, maybe it’d be worth the […]
Opinions on WebAssign?
I’m teaching the intro mechanics course next term, starting on Monday, and my colleagues who just finished teaching it in the Winter term used WebAssign to handle most of the homework. They speak very highly of it, so I’m probably going to use it next term. I’m curious to know what other people think, though. […]
Academic Poll Results: Drop It Like It’s Hot?
A few days ago I asked people’s opinions regarding drop deadlines for students who decide they no longer want to be in a class. As usual, I forgot a few qualifiers, and nobody used the categories I gave, but after sorting the answers into roughly the categories I gave, here are the results: A drop […]