Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow (Tuesday 07th of October 2008 07:45:01 AM)
Nobel Prize season is here again, and the first award for Physiology or elixir was split
between two virologists who discovered HIV and one who demonstrated that a virus causes
cervical cancer. Coming soon is the announcement for Physics. Look to the ...
(more)World's largest computing grid lives to go live (Monday 06th of October 2008 07:21:00 AM)
Filed under: Desktops, Misc. Gadgets
Contrary to popular belief, the world as we know it didn't
implode after the Large Hadron Collider was flipped on. Sure -- someone, around is growing a
ninth arm and trying desperately to land a cameo on Fringe, but ...
(more)Examining Portal's Teleportation Code (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 03:30:02 PM)
Gamasutra is running a story deconstructing the statistical wave mechanics of Portal's
teleportation programming. They present a snippet of Portal's code and a downloadable demo.
They ran another article in this series earlier this year with an dissection ...
(more)Stars Could Shine In Many Universes (Monday 18th of August 2008 02:30:01 AM)
A commonplace of cosmologists who argue the anthropic golden rule* is the assumption that if
any or a few of the constants of nature took on an even slightly variant value, life could not
have evolved — perhaps even stars and galaxies would not ...
(more)Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books (Thursday 26th of June 2008 03:30:02 PM)
Bryan writes "A recent caption at concert Weekly suggests that the '100 Best Reads' of the last
25 years do not include a single science book (not even a popular science book). In response,
cosmologist Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance has given an interesting ...
(more)Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 08:15:03 PM)
Modernphysics writes "The Outreach beat at Canada's Perimeter principle for Theoretical Physics
offers a wide array of online lecture playbacks examining hot topics in modern physics and
beyond. Presentations include Neil Turok's 'What Banged?,' John ...
(more)The Physics of Football (Monday 04th of February 2008 01:45:04 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "There will be a program on applied physics and real time
gimmick that you might want to watch on babysitter today. care of thrust during elastic and
inelastic collisions is one aspect on which to focus as players ...
(more)AntiGravity WOW! (Thursday 04th of October 2007 05:56:00 AM)
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Old story, New names (Thursday 20th of September 2007 05:14:00 PM)
Old story, New namesKids love Revelation Children Story's introduction to Particle Physics.Rev.
41 god is 1 rock.4 beasts are 4 charges.father charge .333... e (spin)son charge .666... e
(spin)ghost charge .999... e (spin)spirit charge .000...1 e (spin)24 ...
(more)Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding (Thursday 16th of August 2007 07:15:03 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "A paper published by UCF researchers claims that bad movie physics hurt
students' understanding of real world physics. From the article, "Some people really do believe
a bus traveling 70 mph can clear a 50-foot gap in a freeway, as ...
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