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February 2008 Link Archives
Here's a good way to get your students to listen just a little bit closer; inform them that you'll insert one lie per class into the lecture and they will be graded on finding your lie! Also, Scott Berkun suggests that this particularly novel idea was initially suggested by Neil Postman.
Awful article, great photo gallery.
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O'Reilly and Wolfram announced today an interesting endeavor; an online version of Mathematica powered by web technologies like AJAX. I'll be quite exited for something like this considering my fondness for Mathematica but my lack of hard drive space.
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Kurzweil's Predictions in 2009
Not sure what I think about Kurzweil yet, he still strikes as kindof kooky, but his new predictions are interesting to think about and Blake sums up some of his older predictions well.
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A great photoessay on the Stanford Linear Accelerator. They have tours, I think, and I'm a bad person for not having gone on one yet.
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A series of articles from the more general TypePad blog rodcorp about how notable people in their field do what they do best.
[via Michael Nielsen]
[via Michael Nielsen]
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As usual, a fantastic post explaining the calculations behind luminosity and interactions at the LHC.
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I highly suggest these geeky scientist valentine cards for around the lab.
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I'm really happy to see the cross-pollination of ideas such as BarCamp between the web geeks and the science geeks.
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