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I've made a couple of oblique references to this over the past couple of months, but I have an article in the new issue of Physics World , on experiments using molecules to search for an electric dipole moment of the electron :
When most of us think about searching for physics beyond the ...
Physical Science
Large Hadron Collider
The big topic-of-the-moment is the hacked stash of emails from a major climate research group. The whole climate change discussion is one of those "no upside" topics that I try to stay out of, but I have some thoughts and comments about issues surrounding the email incident. These are largely ...
Physical Science
AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - A Cinematic Voyage Through Hollywood's SciFi Solar System
Our solar system is a wondrous and frightful venue, and from the magmatic center of the sun to the ghost ships orbiting Neptune, Hollywood has explored it all. Join us for a cinematic ...
Physical Science
Back during the DonorsChoose fundraiser, I promised to do a re-enactment of the Bohr-Einstein debates using puppets if you contributed enough to claim $2,000 of the Hewlett-Packard contribution to the Social Media Challenge. I obviously aimed too low, because the final take was $4064.70, more ...
Physical Science
Albert Einstein
The Royal Society has launched a spiffy new site that lets you browse highlights of the last 350 years of science as published in the Philosophical Transactions ("Giving Some Accompt of the Present Understanding, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World ...
Physical Science
Rhett Allain's Dot Physics has joined ScienceBlogs . Sweet.
Update your RSS readers accordingly. That is all.
Read the comments on this post...
Physical Science
A Good Author Is Hard to Find - Books - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
"Mention the word "slush" to anyone who's worked in publishing for longer than five minutes, and you're likely to get an expression of sheer horror. Slush pile is a term used to refer to the ...
Physical Science
Via Chris Mooney , a Seth Borenstein article about Obama's love for science :
Out in public, Obama turns the Bunsen burner up a notch, playing a combination of high school science teacher and math team cheerleader.
Last week, for example, the president announced that the White House ...
Physical Science
The official release date for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is three weeks from tomorrow, but a couple of new reviews have been posted, one linkable, the other not so much. The linkable one is from one of our contest winners , Eric Goebelbecker, at Dog Spelled Forward (an excellent name ...
Physical Science
It's always nice to be reminded that the US is not the only country in the world prone to acts of petty and childish xenophobia . The last eight years have been especially rough, but between the Obama administration acting like adults and now this silly minaret ban, we no longer look like the ...
Physical Science
On false dichotomies : Thoughts from Kansas
"To the degree that I object to "New Atheism" (an ill-defined entity to which I am not entirely unsympathetic), my objection is to this precise aimlessness. By embracing Radical Honesty and railing against evidence-based ...
Physical Science
For a Budding Fan, Basketball The Way It Ought to Be - NYTimes.com
"My older son, Gabe, turned 3 in May, and I knew this would be the season I would finally take him to his first basketball game. I wanted the experience to be fun, the start of what I hoped would be a ...
Physical Science
Albert Einstein
The New York Times list of " Notable Books for 2009 " has been released, which means it's time for my annual rant about how they've slighted science books. So, how did they do this year? Here are the science books on this year's list:
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was ...
Physical Science
Paul Dirac
Colliding Galaxies For Fun and For Science! : Starts With A Bang
"Galaxy Zoo has developed an outstanding game where you can help astronomers by doing something that humans easily defeat computers at: visually matching galaxies to simulations!"
(tags: science ...
Physical Science
Windows is pleading to be allowed to install updates, so I'm going through closing browser tabs that I opened foolishly thinking I might write about them. In that list is yet another blog post on how electronic books will kill traditional publishing . This one is fundamentally an economic ...
Physical Science
A few other people got the same email I did, promoting a list of the 50 Best Physics Blogs put together by Accredited Online Colleges Dot Org. It's a fine list, with one glaring problem: They didn't include Matt Springer's Built On Facts . As you can probably tell from its frequent tagging for ...
Physical Science
Windows MovieMaker has inexplicably decided to work again, today. Maybe it can only produce useful output on odd-numbered Fridays. Whatever the reason, I was finally able to edit down and paste together a couple of really cute video clips of SteelyKid playing in her babypod :
babypod :
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Physical Science
Here's yesterday's turkey a la Good Eats , a little while after coming out of the oven:
As in past years, we brined it overnight. Unlike past years, we didn't have any of the plastic roasting bags, so instead we took advantage of the spiffy new roasting pan (a Christmas gift after the ...
Physical Science
Spins spotted in room-temperature silicon - physicsworld.com
"Physicists in the Netherlands are the first to show that spin-polarized electrons can be injected into silicon at room temperature. The team injected the electrons into both p-type and n-type silicon and measured ...
Physical Science
We hosted Thanksgiving this year, and SteelyKid was the life of the party. When she saw Grandpa make the unwise decision to sit down on the couch with a glass of red wine, she came running, and spilled it all over him. To make up for it, she graciously decided to include him in this week's Baby ...
