The PRL from the ArXiv paper I linked to in Follow the Bouncing Atom has been published.
Phys Rev Focus has a story on it
Daily Archives: April 23, 2009
Fun with Integral spin
Built on Facts: Bose-Einstein Condensates, pt. 1
Part 2 and part 3
Some Pig
Bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover
I never needed to have a hangover as an excuse for a bacon sandwich. Bacon on toast is one way of undoing the damage of overcooked, super-crispy bacon (I prefer bacon that can’t be snapped in half like a dry twig)
Fun with Magnets
I’ve done several of these, including a version of the homopolar motor. The eddy current damping is fun, too — you can make nonmagnetic metals react to magnets by inducing current flow in them. Lenz’s law.
The UnReagan Effect
Putting UP a big wall. 6,000 km along the Sahara.
BLDG BLOG: SAND/STONE
Clarifying the biochemical process through which his project could be realized, Larsson explained in a series of emails that his “structure is made straight from the dunescape by flushing a particular bacteria through the loose sand… which causes a biological reaction whereby the sand turns into sandstone; the initial reactions are finished within 24 hours, though it would take about a week to saturate the sand enough to make the structure habitable.”
Coincidence? I Think Not!
(OK, I do, actually)