...attening lens and pyramidal mirrors and parabolic mirror s effects and aluminized mylar thermal coversover the mirror comments for cosmic variance httpcos micvarianc e.com references euro lap top stand 9 nov 2008 by admin rear projection module rpm mylar mirrors with fine tuning ctls20 laptop storage cart. the doityourselfer diy laptop stands are ligh...
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the hive overmind is ever growing. say hello to cosmic variance this is a premier astrophysics group blog which has been subsumed by the neuronical empire of discover magazine. im glad to see it. sean carroll one of the seven cosmically variant writers on that blog may very well be a nobel laureate someday either that or eventually wind up standing in hyde park on a box yelling......
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a few weeks ago i was returning to manchester from trieste in northern italy. my journey was going to be long because it involved a change in paris so i had loaded up my mp3 player with plenty of podcasts to while away the hours. as i was crossing the beautiful snow covered alps i turned on a fascinating ted podcast. the talk was given by surfing cosmologist garrett lisi who m......
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ive been thinking about it since this yesterday and ive finally decided to take the plunge im going to say a few words about the blogosphere debate on the cdf ghost muon paper .a i know that by the demanding standards of the internet this is old news the posts that started the mess were an eternity ago last week.a in my defense i have been traveling for......
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the people of the united states have not failed. in their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct vigorous action. they have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. they have made me the present instrument of their wishes. in the spirit of the gift i will take it. franklin delano roosevelt first inaugural speech 1. the joy of democracy so obama has won.......
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sean carroll is a senior research associate in the department of physics at the california institute of technology. his research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology field theory and gravitation. he will be giving a talk in secondlife on saturday nov 8th at 10am sl time. for more information see his blog post here talk in second life cosmic variance and here is......
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im still plugging away at the book and i have a few talks and interviews still on the schedule wednesday november 5 tonight ill be toasting the elections at the boulder drinking skeptically meetup . thats at 600 p.m. at old chicago on the pearl street mall. local skeptics come hoist one with us friday nov. 14 ill be in second life because ......
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this is probably slightly out of the scope of astroengine.com but having already made my feelings very clear about obamas stance on nasa and the mccainpalin camps inability to understand science so what the hell. is there really a choice in my view there is only one logical ethical intelligent and sensible choice. lets hope the us makes history today but for the r......
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i snuck onto my email from work and found that lo and behold id been linked to by andrew sullivan . so welcome daily dish readers hi come on in dont mind the mess or the kid clutching the weird pink beeping electropet and doing cartwheels in the corner eta turns out the same post was also linked by cosmic variance . thanks for the tip rachel. so welcome also......
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random feed wrote an interesting post today on heres a quick excerpt in the post about my upcoming talk in second life i gave a newbies sketchy perspective of the outlook for the medium. but you should also hear the pitch of someone who is a real expert both in virtual worlds and their use for scientific research. so were very happy to have a guest post from george djorgovski ......
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julian steward rexamined john hawkes is writing a series explaining culture diffusionism which is quite useful for those of us who havent received an education in the boasians. hawkes started with the prussian himself and associates and his next installment focuses on a 1929 article by julian sterward diffusion and independent invention a critique of logic.8......
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a little while ago i bumped into this article on scientific american how to unleash your creativity . its a discussion between creativity researchers about just that creativity. towards the end they seem to fall into the trap of directly associating the idea of creativity with the idea of artistry. one readers comment at the end of the article pointed out this flaw. while art may......
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nb this post is aimed at physicists.. however if you are not one but you are really curious you might find out that for once the annoying feeling of reading cryptic jargon is paid back by some real news i guess the most important message of the post you are about to read is do not check the arxiv today if you really cannot spend a couple of hours reading. make it three. thea paper just ......
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ive been hesitant to post anything political here but i couldnt resist in this case as it does reflect the antiintel lectualism displayed during the current reg ime and what we can most likely expect if they win the election next week. this is what the republican party has done to us this year it has placed within reach of the oval office a woman who is a religiou......
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in the previous post i mentioned a piece i wrote for il sole 24 ore an italian daily newspaper which is less read than repubblica and il corriere della sera but is more accurate in political and financiary analysis and has a good reputation overall despite being owned by confindustria. i wrote that piece shortly after the publication on new scientist soon followed by the ec......
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markets redistribute wealth from those who sell low to those who sell high. credit redistributes wealth from future productivity gains to those who presently have money to lend. inflation redistributes wealth from those who save to those who borrow. etc. etc.. virtually every economic event or activity but the most basic operations of trade involve the redistribution of wealth to some degree. ...
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hyperion saturns weird unpredictable moon . the orbit of hyperion around saturn is fairly predictable happily even for lumpy moons the center of mass follows a smooth path. but the orientation of hyperion it turns out is chaotic the moon tumbles unpredictably as it orbits as measured by voyager 2 as well as earthbased telescopes. its orbit is highly elliptical and resonates......
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ueber eine interessante rechnung zu betrachtung zu quanteneffekten berichtet sean in cosmic variance . er berichtet ueber ein paper aus dem jahre 1994 hier bei arxiv von wojciech zurek und juan pablo paz. sie berechnen eine quantenphy sikalische gre fuer einen saturnmond. zunchst in der quantenphysik spricht man immer von wellenfunktionen und man sagt dass das quadrat der wellenfun......
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roe vs. wade bush vs. gore what are the worst supreme court decisions los angeles times legal experts weigh in. tags law politics us history society quantum hyperion cosmic variance is saturns moon there when nobodys looking tags science ......
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roe vs. wade bush vs. gore what are the worst supreme court decisions los angeles times legal experts weigh in. tags law politics us history society quantum hyperion cosmic variance is saturns moon there when nobodys looking tags science ......
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sean at cosmic variance has an interesting article on decoherence called quantum hyperion . it describes a paper by zurek and paz that calculates that if saturns moon hyperion were an isolated system then within twenty years it would evolve into a nonlocalized quantum state. it is only the interaction with the outside world that keeps hyperion looking like a moon.......
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