I was going to post something noting that the great WordPress transition will begin at 7pm tonight, and comments after that time will be lost like Roy Batty’s tears. However, I have much happier news: tomorrow’s Science Times (available on the Web already) will include a review of How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog! […]
Month: May 2012
Kickin’ Back (With Chicken)
Because I need to test out some features of the new WordPress system, including the image handling, here’s a place-holder post with a bonus SteelyKid photo: This is SteelyKid kicking back at Niska-Day over the weekend (the annual community fair here in Niskayuna). Don’t be deceived by the lazy look of this image– she was […]
Links for 2012-05-21
Back of the Envelope Problems A collection of classic estimation problems, with answers, written by E.M. Purcell for the American Journal of Physics back in the day. nanoscale views: The unreasonable clarity of E. M. Purcell Purcell had the insight that in a cavity, the number of states available for photons is not quadratic in […]
How to Teach Relativity to Your Bay Area Dog
So, you find yourself living in the San Francisco Bay area, and you maybe have a dog who would like to know something about relativity, or you maybe want to someday have a dog who will want to know something about relativity, or you maybe want to know something more about relativity yourself, in case […]
Links for 2012-05-18
The poor and their time are soon parted § Unqualified Offerings Why do I bring this up? I bring it up because I read this article about how the poor get trapped in a system that rains shit down on them. No, I’m not here to offer the poor advice on how to find good […]
The Republican Brain by Chris Mooney
This has been out for a little while now, and Chris has been promoting it very heavily, and it’s sort of interesting to see the reactions. It’s really something of a Rorschach blot of a book, with a lot of what’s been written about it telling you more about what the writer wants to be […]
Links for 2012-05-16
n+1: Lions in Winter, Part One A very long and thorough history of the New York Public Library, how its current plans to gut the main research library came about, and what they mean for the idea of a public research library. Correcting the Record on College Graduates and Job Prospects by Joshua Tucker | […]
The Story of the Three Hippopotamuses
Tell me a story. Tell me the story about the three hippopotamuses. Ummm… OK. Once upon a time, there were three hipopotamuses. And they lived in Africa, in a river. Right, it was a great big long river, that had so much salt in it that they could float! Well, salt does help things float, […]
Links for 2012-05-14
Surviving the World – Lesson 1395 – Arguing And, once again, the internet has been explained in under 20 words. If Publishing Is Dead, What Happens to Non-Fiction? « Maureen Ogle Consider: I started working on the meat book in early 2007. I finished it in early 2012. You do the math. I spent five […]
Transitional Technical Difficulties
As mentioned previously, the crack technical team at ScienceBlogs HQ is working on shifting us from our creaky Movable Type system to a shiny new WordPress system. Part of that process involves moving all the old posts over, which has been done… sort of. At present, any post since April 18 has not been moved, […]