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Cocktail Party Physics

guest post: gifts for the littlest scientists on you

my hypothesis is this: children can never have too many good books to read.  in order to prove/disprove this hypothesis, i have set up the following experiment: i buy my niece and nephew stacks and stacks of books, and then ask them if it’s too many. we have yet to reach maximum bookage, and i’ve been sending several pounds of them every year for seve... (44 天前)

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your birdsong stays on my mind

"officers, life doesn't have to be ugly. see, look at the birds out there. listen to their call: 'oo-wee! oo-wee! oo-wee! oo-wee!" -- beverly sutphin, serial mom alas, as fans of john waters' masterpiece know, beverly's love of her feathered friends didn't extend to homo sapiens. she even killed her dentist and his wife after spying on them eating dinner... (89 天前)

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a shot in the dark: the acoustics of gunfire

who shot first, han solo or greedo? if you're a diehard star wars fan, you know the answer is han solo. it's a popular bit of geek trivia, referring to a classic scene in what is now known as star wars episode iv: a new hope. fans have engaged in heated online debates, signed petitions, and broken off budding friendships over this pressing issue. and now... (89 天前)

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nobel dreams: 2011 physics prize honors accelerating

[note: this post originally appeared at our new home at scientific american.] a few years ago, soon after moving to los angeles, an old grad school buddy of the time lord came to town, brian schmidt, and we took him to a nearby tapas eatery for nibbles and pisco sours. i remember they were shooting a scene from a will smith movie that night, so nearby st... (133 天前)

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love among the equations

[note: this post originally appeared at our new home at scientific america.] four years ago on this date, the time lord and i officially tied the knot. i wrote the piece below last fall, as the calculus diaries was coming out, but it didn't really seem to fit anywhere --too "math-y" for the mainstream, too intensely personal for your average science publ... (135 天前)

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physics enters the octagon

[note: this post originally appeared at our new home at scientific american.] one of the biggest movies of the fall so far is contagion, which garnered strong reviews -- including from the science blogosphere -- and roared to a $23.1 million opening when it debuted a few weeks ago, easily beating out the other box office contenders. so it's understandabl... (135 天前)

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protons and pistols: remembering robert wilson

[note: this post originally appeared at our new home at scientific american.] one day in 1969, the congressional joint committee on atomic energy convened in washington, dc, to hear testimony from a number of scientists concerning a proposed multimillion dollar particle accelerator to be built in batavia, illinois. physics had enjoyed strong government s... (135 天前)

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