Fine Structure

February 2008 Link Archives

Everybody Loves a Liar

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.

The Promise of Personal Fabrication

TED is this week and a couple people from work are there listening to the most amazing and inspirational speeches you'll see this year. The speeches are recorded and put on the TED site eventually and this one from Neil Gershenfeld about personal fabrication came up recently.

The God Particle

Awful article, great photo gallery.

An AJAX Mathematica

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.

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.

SLAC Photoessay

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.

What's This?

Another good (hopefully repeating) roundup of physics news similar to What's New.

How We Work

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]

LHC Interactions

As usual, a fantastic post explaining the calculations behind luminosity and interactions at the LHC.

Scientist Valentines

I highly suggest these geeky scientist valentine cards for around the lab.

SciBarCamp

I'm really happy to see the cross-pollination of ideas such as BarCamp between the web geeks and the science geeks.