Envoronment
March 10, 2010
Eruptions
Wednesday Whatzits: Icelandic sagas, Chaiten, Erta'Ale's lava lake and a volcano simulator We're continuing to watch the earthquakes in Iceland, the lava lake is rising at Erta'Ale and a volcano simulator on the web.
Uncertain Principles
Emmy: Distinguished Alumna On this morning's walk, a woman stopped me and Emmy to say that she recognized us from a picture. Emmy was adopted from the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society shelter back in 2003, and when they heard about How...
EvolutionBlog
Thought For the Day A little point to ponder from Jason Lisle, a young-Earth creationist with Answers in Genesis. This is from his book The Ultimate Proof of Creation: Laws of logic pose a very serious problem for the evolutionist. Almost all evolutionists know...
March 9, 2010
Greg Laden's Blog
"Our objective over the next 18 to 24 months is to deliver one inverse femtobarn of data to the experiments." This is a piece by Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN explaining what is happening over at LHC. A must read....
Good Math, Bad Math
Grandiose Crankery: Cantor, Godel, Church, Turing, ... Morons! A bunch of people have been asking me to take a look at yet another piece of Cantor crankery recently posted to Arxiv. In general, I'm sick and tired of Cantor crankery - it's been occupying much too much...
Uncertain Principles
What Should I Do in Portland, Oregon? I'm going to be attending the March Meeting of the American Physical Society next week, in Portland, OR. This will be held at the Oregon Convention Center, which is apparently on the opposite side of the river from every hotel...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking (video), Part 3 Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods)...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
The Con-Time Machine Time travel will never be the same again ..
March 8, 2010
Starts With A Bang
The Greatest Story Ever Told -- 06 -- Goodbye antimatter, hello protons, neutrons, and electrons! Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. -Dave Barry Welcome back to our series on The Greatest Story Every Told, where we start...
The Quantum Pontiff
Must Resist Joke Blog Post Title arXiv:1003.1153: Quantum Dating Market Authors: O.G. Zabaleta, C.M. Arizmendi Abstract: We consider the dating market decision problem under the quantum mechanics point of view. Quantum states whose associated amplitudes are modified by men strategies are used to represent women. Grover...
Eruptions
Monday Musings: Iceland, Chilean volcanoes and the SI/USGS Update Things may be settling down in Iceland, Chilean volcanoes still quiet after the earthquake and views of Chaiten from space.
Dot Physics
Tablecloth and dishes trick - the BMW version First, let me talk about the key aspect of this demo. Why don't the glasses move? Well, they move - but just not very far. The demo is supposed to be an example of Newton's Second law, or you could say it is the momentum principle (which is what I will use). If a force is applied for a short time interval, the momentum will not change too much. Here is the momentum principle:
Built on Facts
Sunday Function Do you share a birthday?
A Few Things Ill Considered
Another week of GW News, March 7, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
March 7, 2010
Eruptions
Mt. Baker Volcano Research Center Update Need your fix for news and information about Mt. Baker? Sure you do.
March 5, 2010
EvolutionBlog
Are Pigeons Better Than Humans at the Monty Hall Problem? From Yahoo News: To shed light on why humans often fall short of the best strategy with this kind of problem, scientists investigated pigeons, which often perform quite impressively on tasks requiring them to estimate relative probabilities, in some cases...
Uncertain Principles
Many Worlds, Many Treats: The Movie Another dramatic reading of a chapter from How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, just because. This is Chapter 4, which is based on the original Many Worlds, Many Treats post that kick-started the whole thing: I'm sitting at the...
A Few Things Ill Considered
Arctic seabed methane stores destabilizing, venting From up north, we have some more troubling news. Actually very troubling. Catastophic release of methane hydrates is a prime suspect in a few events dramatic enough to show in the earth's geological records, coarse and obscured as that record...
March 4, 2010
Dot Physics
Vacuum Spider-Man The cool thing about a vacuum cleaner (think shop vac so that I don't have to deal with the brushes) is that it is just one thing - a fan. The fan essentially moves air out of the vacuum part of the cleaner so that it "sucks". Here is a diagram for a vacuum cleaner with no hose (no air input).
The Quantum Pontiff
Quantum Citation Survey Thomson Reuter's website Sciencewatch.com has a special section out on citation and paper data for the last ten years of quantum computing. More below the fold....
Eruptions
Ask Alan Boyle (science editor for MSNBC.com) your questions on science in mainstream media Do you have a question for Alan Boyle, the science editor for MSNBC.com? Here is your chance to ask him.
Built on Facts
Hearing The Uncertainty Principle Musically speaking.
Eruptions
Increasing signs of activity at Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland All eyes will be on Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland as it begins to show signs that an eruption might be in the works.
March 3, 2010
Starts With A Bang
Disrespecting the Rules What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. -W. Shakespeare After writing about the 80th Birthday of Pluto becoming a planet, I was asked about Pluto's planetary status, and whether...
A Few Things Ill Considered
Lambert vs Monckton While on the subject of great work by Tim Lambert, his recent debate with Christopher Monkton is available for viewing here. It is 113 minutes long and I am pressed for time, so I am posting it before watching it....
