» Exhibition Review - At the Hayden Planetarium, Catch a Booming, Blazing Star
Anyone want to see this with me?
July 03, 2009, 11:05pm Comments
div, grad, curl, repeat
absurd tales of path integral reparametrization through space and time, web-applet style.
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I didn’t know invisibility cloaks existed, period. Did you?
July 03, 2009, 11:02pm Comments
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July 02, 2009, 7:05pm Comments
I wonder if the time for a Carl Sagan like figure to appear to children and mesmerize them with a soft voice in their living rooms is passed its time. Back in the day, we watched PBS because that was one of 10 channels, unless you were lucky to grow up with cable (I wasn’t), it was PBS or daytime soaps. There are entertainers like Bill Nye, but advocacy for science in general doesn’t really help the cause of making chemistry more accessible, even though it can’t hurt.
In short, I feel as though the problems are many and splendored. Everything from a lack of advocacy (which has lead to ignorance), to poor pedagogy from high school through college has shaped chemistry to be the monster and bane of premeds and premed dropouts alike. The subject isn’t inherently easy, but I’d wager it’s no more difficult than physics (if physics were easier, I assume I’d have gone into that) and I’m not suggesting making it dumber (though, I question the amount of sincerity with which it is taught – sophomore organic chemistry should not be the intellectual gate through which all must pass before getting their membership to the Intelligentsia.)
Interesting. Didn’t know Chemistry was developing a harsher rap than Physics, but I can kind of see where that’s coming from.
Truth be told, if I hadn’t skipped ahead in high school, I too would have found Chemistry to be tedious. 5 years later, and the legacy of a spur-of-the-moment whim is still alive and kicking. That’s power.
July 02, 2009, 6:07pm Comments
“In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians in India, New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality.
“The inclusiveness that Indian society traditionally displayed, literally in every aspect of life, is manifest in recognizing a role in society for everyone,” judges of the Delhi High Court wrote in a 105-page decision, India’s first to directly address rights for gay men and lesbians. “Those perceived by the majority as ‘deviants’ or ‘different’ are not on that score excluded or ostracized,” the decision said.
Homosexuality has been illegal in India since 1861, when British rulers codified a law prohibiting “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal.” The law, known as Section 377 of India’s penal code, has long been viewed as an archaic holdover from colonialism by its detractors.
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India still has a long way to go regarding social reforms, but this is a huge step. Very proud of my motherland, I am.
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July 02, 2009, 11:19am Comments
Wimbledon, UK: Rufus the resident Harris hawk, who keeps the courts pigeon-free. Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images
Is this photograph for real?!
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July 01, 2009, 5:02pm Comments
For what it's worth
I think I’m finally starting to understand the advantages of social graces and acting like a Lady.
Yes, I believe things are going to work out in the end, and it’ll be amazing. And now I see how.
July 01, 2009, 4:58pm Comments
“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
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June 30, 2009, 1:27pm Comments
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For Michelle
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June 30, 2009, 11:54am Comments
