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July 2008 Link Archives
A fascinating account of two Italian brothers who apparently eavesdropped on many early Soviet and American space missions. Sensationally, they claim that a number of early manned Soviet missions failed with cosmonauts dying by suffocation, burning up on reentry or missing orbit and simply sailing off into space. Plenty of questions about if all of their recordings were real.
All those old windows that had glass bulges at the bottom aren't actually from very, very slowly flowing glass, just from glass that started off imperfectly flat. Huh.
The rest of the article deals with how little we know about how glass forms. It's very interesting, even if not as interesting as shattering an explanation I always thought I had for bulgy glass.
The rest of the article deals with how little we know about how glass forms. It's very interesting, even if not as interesting as shattering an explanation I always thought I had for bulgy glass.
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John Baez at the n-Category Café asks hard questions of the often-oversimplified light mill (Crookes Radiometer) toy. Fascinating not only for the many explanations that have been proven wrong but also for the many reputable sources that report these wrong explanations as the truth!
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An excellent explanation of Matter vs. Antimater from cosmic variance. First in a series.
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A couple of recent posts from kottke.org have highlighted the dark side of an elite education, both from the perspective of the students who attend and their undervalued teachers. I thought a little bit about what to say on either of them and I didn't come up with anything insightful - the first article is just about dead on and the second is nauseating in it's all-to-commonness. Perhaps I'll have more to say on this eventually, but for now, just some links.
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A new journal publication by the American Physical Society which publishes the "most exceptional" papers from their Physical Review journal series. Will it be a stage for rampant favoritism or a place where great research gets more eyeballs?
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Wikipedia lists some popular unsolved (and some recently solved) problems in physics. A nice list if you're looking for a good place to start picking apart the details of what we know.
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Ooo, a pretty book all about ATLAS.
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Seed Magazine's annual writing contest. Unfortunately, I think this year's topic is of the ultra-inflammatory type but then again science bloggers have seen that it does drive readership. I might answer it anyway:
"What is the most significant force acting against science in society today? How can it be overcome?"
"What is the most significant force acting against science in society today? How can it be overcome?"
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Discover Magazine is rapidly growing their new blog section with Carl Zimmer's The Loom. This is in addition to the wildly popular Bad Astronomy blog which just moved recently as well. Not to be confused with Discovery Blogs.
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Work in science? Got a mac? Apple has an awesome new page devoted to you. It covers a series of topics, from working with powerpoint from your PC-based collaborators to making papers and posters look good. Also links another site that I hadn't previously heard of; MacResearch.org.
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