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Gender issues in science. Nerd Girls at Bad Astronomy, which begat smart = sexy at Cocktail Party Physics, which begat Flirt harder. I’m a physicist at sciencegeekgirl.
There’s some really interesting commentary to go along with the posts.
I have the sneaking suspicion that this topic is one where it is impossible to be right; there [...]
August 18, 1868. Jules Janssen “invents” helium. (At least, according to principal Skinner. “Curse the man who invented helium! Curse Pierre Jules César Janssen!)
Janssen was observing an eclipse and measured an emission line with a wavelength of 587.49 nm, which didn’t correspond to any known element. Norman Lockyer also observed the [...]
Sucky Schools - How To Repair Our Education System
Lots of good stuff.
Our schools are fact-junkies. We teach students thousands of useless facts that will be forgotten as soon as the next exam is over. Hell, usually they’re forgotten even before that, and then you see students cramming late into night, only to forget it all [...]
Via Asymptotia, the Physics Today political summary: Where do they stand on science
TS2 on Target – view from the LOQ cabin
A brief overview of some neutron history
Since it carries no charge, one could not “weigh” a neutron directly in a mass spectrometer, but had to estimate its mass from the difference between deuterium and hydrogen. However in 1935, more accurate measurements allowed Chadwick to derive a neutron [...]
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