http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont A scienceforums.net mostly-physics weblog Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:46:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An infinite number of monkeys approach to designing an offense in football. Yes, per the rules of the game, only five players are eligible to catch a pass during a particular play and seven players have to set up on the line of scrimmage. But in the minds of Bryan ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/639 [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4] If you stress glass in that way, it does tend to make it more susceptible to breaking. http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/634 Algorithmic Architecture at oobject. Algorithmic architecture uses computers to generate natural looking aperiodic forms that are are a revolutionary alternative to the extreme crystalline regularity of what has up to now been considered modern. http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/630 ARES — Perseverance is your word today. You will not become frustrated at your continued inability to separate quarks from each other. TAURUS — You will suspect that the force pushing you away from the center of a circle is in fact a figment of your imagination, and would not ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/636 MPG vs GPM at Everyday Scientist The take-away message is that we can’t do calculations like (1/a - 1/b) in our heads. http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/638 Large Hadron Collider nearly ready at The Big Picture. 27 photos. http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/629 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Absurdly Implausible Excess in the NY Times discusses "Nuking the Fridge," the expression spawned from some inanity in the latest Indiana Jones flick. Jason Nicholl, a 37-year-old high school teacher who runs one of the sites, said he went to a message board shortly after ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/628 Taking a week off, and I don't expect to be blogging much, if at all. I have a couple of posts in the queue, though, so if I have internet access they'll appear. http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/637 The importance of stupidity in scientific research I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school, went to Harvard Law School and is now a senior lawyer ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/632 Thoughts on Conferences at Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat The second case was a conference where the only requirement for approval was an abstract. I realize that some of the more "cutting edge" conferences proceed this way so that people can present their latest results. I don't like ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/631