Envoronment
Uncertain Principles
Upcoming Appearances: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Live Two events in the next couple of weeks at which I will be appearing live and in person: 1) This Thursday, Feb. 4, I will be giving a talk at the University of Maryland, College Park at 3:30 pm in...
Eruptions
Monday Musings: Hazard zones at Turrialba, Yellowstone earthquakes and more! Yellowstone makes it to the New York Times, Costa Rica defines some hazard zones around the reawakened Turrialba and how to vacation near a volcano.
January 31, 2010
A Few Things Ill Considered
Another week of GW News, January 31, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
Dot Physics
The speed of exploding Galacticus I know I am a loser. I initially thought: wow, that seemed pretty fast for that scale. I wonder if that exploding stuff was going faster than the speed of light.
Highly Allochthonous
Coal and the fossil record of climate change in the Canadian High Arctic Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
Casaubon's Book
Peak Oil Is Still a Women's Issue and Other Reflections on Sex, Gender and the Long Emergency I've come to think that I'm only beginning to grasp the ways that gender and sex have been integral in creating our collective predicament. I have and do argue that at least as significant as the famed failed suburban experiment that James Kunstler and others see as central to causing our problem was the shift to a corporatized feminism that replaced women with cheap energy, "housewifized" or professionalized all labor in the subsistence economy, and, along with the push to move farmers off their land and into the workforce, was a major factor in enabling our industrial expansion.
Uncertain Principles
From Eternity to the Web The Firedoglake Book Salon with Sean Carroll last night was a lot of fun. I was generally impressed with the level of the questions, and the tone of the discussion. We went through all of the questions I had typed...
January 30, 2010
Uncertain Principles
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update A few bits and pieces of news regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: We got and accepted an offer for the audio book rights from one of the biggest audio book publishers. Actually, I think there were two...
January 29, 2010
Built on Facts
Football and Physics I believe we have a Super Bowl coming up. Or, if the NFL is so picky about the use of their trademarks, I believe we have a "Big Game" coming up. As a native south Louisianian, I'm for the eternally...
Uncertain Principles
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update Hard to believe it's been a couple of days since I posted anything with this title... Anyway, there are a couple of small updates: The vanity search turned up this mention on ScienceBase, in with a bunch of other recent...
Good Math, Bad Math
Cantor Crankery and Worthless Wankery Poor Georg Cantor. During his life, he suffered from dreadful depression. He was mocked by his mathematical colleagues, who didn't understand his work. And after his death, he's become the number one target of mathematical crackpots. As I've mentioned...
Eruptions
Friday Flotsam: Volcano lighting, Tungurahua eruption, storing carbon dioxide in lava ... and Yellowstone! A pile of news to end your week, including new lightning that comes from volcanoes, ash fall across Ecuador, a new USGS/SI Volcano Report and storing your excess carbon dioxide in ancient lava flows.
January 28, 2010
Eruptions
Taking a closer look at the Yellowstone earthquakes over the last week The swarm marches on ... but the pattern seems to show that the earthquakes are pretty much staying put around 10-11 km depth.
Starts With A Bang
Why I am dissatisfied with NASA's Constellation We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot Yesterday, President Obama delivered his first State of the Union...
Dynamics of Cats
Geoff Burbidge RIP Another loss to cosmology, as Geoff Burbidge dies at 84....
The Quantum Pontiff
NEC Summer Quantum Interns Martin passes along information that the quantum group at NEC labs has openings for summer interns:I wanted to let you know that the quantum group at NEC Labs America has openings for 2010 summer internships. If some of your students...
Uncertain Principles
Continuity, Discretion, and the Perils of Popularization Last week's Seven Essential Elements of Quantum Physics post sparked a fair bit of discussion, though most of it was at the expert level, well above the level of the intended audience. such is life in the physics blogosphere. I...
Uncertain Principles
Quantization of Books 4: How Many Books Is That Again? I've toyed around in the past with ways to use the Amazon sales rank tracker to estimate the sales numbers for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. It's geeky fun, but not especially quantitative. Yesterday, though, I found a...
Eruptions
Russia nixes Kamchatka and Kuril Island volcano monitoring Officials in Russia have decided to stop funding KVERT - the body that monitors and responds to volcanic eruptions in eastern Russia. This is bad news.
January 27, 2010
Starts With A Bang
Resolving the Red Controversy? Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Oh, this would be so much easier if I wasn't color-blind! -Donkey, from Shrek Earlier this week, I introduced you to the Red Controversy, the observations recorded around...
A Blog Around The Clock
Math 2.0 Webinar tonight Tonight at 9:30pm, I will be the online guest of the Math 2.0 community, invited by Maria Droujkova, to talk about the organizational aspects of ScienceOnline2010 as they are interested in organizing something similar for the online math community. We'll...
Dot Physics
Yo-Yo: Rolling, sliding, pulling This is actually been sitting around for a while waiting for me to post it. Here is another short Christmas-toy demo. I am going to pull this yo-yo at different angles and on two different surfaces. Check it out.
Uncertain Principles
Upcoming Appearances: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Live Two upcoming events related to How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: This Saturday, January 30, I will be doing a signing at 2pm at the book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, on Western Ave. in Albany. I may or may...
Gene Expression
The World Space Agency a comin'? NASA to Review Human Spaceflight: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is preparing for a major evaluation of its human spaceflight program, even as many who will conduct the survey have yet to be informed of the agency's revised mission....
Built on Facts
NASA, R.I.P. Let's say you wanted to kill NASA.
