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Physics Helper 3: Now with WPF Support!
Silverlight Travel | August 17th 2009 by Silverlight Travel
from Andy Beaulieu Several people have asked if the Physics Helper Library for Silverlight could also support WPF. While there are lots of similarities between Silverlight and WPF, there are also LOTS of differences, including the way VisualTreeHelpe read more
Defense, defense!
Undulations: A blog of a dancer and grad student | August 17th 2009 by Aleksie
Tomorrow is my defense. My advisor, the kid who defends Wednesday, and I did a dry run, along with two others. Remarkably, my dry run was painless. I have to make some corrections tonight, but beyond that- it went well for my first, last, and only dr read more
Ban Berjalan Justru Melambatkan Anda?
NetSains.com | August 16th 2009 by Didik Wicaksono
[ Juli 25, 2009; 1:00 pm; ] Dalam edisi 18 Juli 2009, majalah "New Scientist" mengangkat artikel ringan dengan judul cukup kontroversial: "Jika anda tergesa, jangan gunakan ban berjalan" [1]. Mengapa bisa demikian? Dalam artikel ini, penulis memulai read more
Just for Fun: The Effects of Physics on Motorcross
Just Call Me Ms Frizzle | August 16th 2009 by rebbieg
I stumbled across this short article on The Onion. This line caught my attention in particular: “I’ve had a great run in both professional motocross and Supercross, but the more I learn about kinetic energy, momentum, and ballistics, I read more
Radiation reduces risk of recurrence in younger women
Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer | August 15th 2009
Young women with early-stage breast cancer can reduce the risk of locoregional recurrence by receiving radiation therapy, a recent study concludes. This study of women aged 35 and under showed that those with stage II breast cancer who added radiati read more
Quantum Computing Work Experience – Week 1
Gedanken: Stream of consciousness | August 14th 2009 by Bryant Tan
I’ve been looking forward to this for quite some time – two weeks of work experience in a lab at Imperial College working with some PhD students with an ultimate goal of making some progress towards the construction of a quantum computer read more
Linkage 8.13: Particle Raps, Lucky Mutants and Twitter Psychology
Science Life | August 14th 2009 by Rob Mitchum
Our weekly roundup of interesting science from around the web: Where the Higgs At? A Particle Accelerator Rap Battle CERN’s gigantic new Large Hadron Collider had a somewhat tough week, with New York Times reporter James Glantz comparing the $ read more
What’s Stopping You?
Syed Akram Reviews | August 14th 2009 by Syed Akram
Have you ever had a terrific idea which you didn’t act on? Of course you have. I don’t mean anything fancy either. Nothing earth-shattering. Just a plain old-fashioned good idea which would have made you more money. But you didn’t g read more
So close to the end
Undulations: A blog of a dancer and grad student | August 14th 2009 by Aleksie
So my thesis has gone to committee. Scary, huh? I spent yesterday scrambling to get myself together; Mathematica crashed on me 5 times. While that sounds unfortunate but not too bad, Mathematica chose to crash when I finished loading all 6 sets of da read more
Google Gets Wired Today
The Garlic: All The Cloves Fit To Peel | August 14th 2009 by J. Thomas Duffy
In case you missed it, if you've done any Googling today, they have a commemorative (of sorts, well, for physics geeks, surely) logo up;It is in honor of Hans Christian Ørsted.Who?From The Guardian;Probably not even the physics geeks remember much a read more
Chevy Volt
Just Call Me Ms Frizzle | August 14th 2009 by rebbieg
I’ve been seeing a lot of commercials for the Chevy Volt lately: The one that plays on Hulu.com is only an animation of the number “230″, which is the estimated MPG for the Volt. I’ve been wondering how that’s possible, read more
good stuff
Wolfkraft | August 13th 2009
Sixty Symbols: Videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy. read more
Learn Something New!!!
Patti Trostle Painting A Day | August 13th 2009 by Patti Trostle
I have started something on my Twitter page (see the link below), and want to continue it here on my blog. *I used to drive my parents crazy asking them "Why". I still am asking that same question. I do not ever want to be satisfied with informatio read more
The Big Picture - Introductory Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics
Materials Science & Engineering | August 13th 2009 by James Alexander
A recent visitor brought my attention to this website.I believe this work deserves more visibility, hence this post.At a rapid glance these two academic sites appear to be a very clear, easy to understand, introduction to the many difficult to grasp read more
4-DIMENSIONAL RESONANCE
Bruceleeeowe's blog | August 12th 2009
Four-dimensional resonance Mr. Alexander V. Frolov Faraday Lab Ltd http://www.faraday.ru Discontinuity of energy levels, particularly quantizated atomic states, is studied in physics in detail. It is characterized by Planck’s constant. In a p read more
Psi, UFOs and Physics
My Strange Blog | August 12th 2009
The Common Elements of Parapsychology and UFO Experiences: Lessons for Physics In these videos, physicist and NSF fellow Claude Swanson examines the evidence supporting a range of anomalous phenomena, from UFOs to parapsychology, and discusses their read more
Sathya Sai Baba On Magnetism. Science or Sai-ence?
Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Ba… | August 11th 2009
Sathya Sai Baba is wildly at odds with some of the most basic scientific facts. His jumping between from physical to metaphysical notions, vague at best, are at grave odds with the physics being taught in his colleges and university - and in any resp read more
Physics quiz: What is Stephen Hawking’s nationality?
Wheatdogg's world | August 11th 2009
(a) United States (b) United Kingdom (c) Manchester United (d) United Arab Emirates You have 2 minutes. {Cue Jeopardy thinking jingle} The answer is B! Author and theoretical physicist Hawking was born in Oxford, England, 67 years ago and is currentl read more
Red Remover – physics puzzle Time Waster
Technology Info | August 11th 2009 by shally
Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters, Web Red Remover is colorful physics puzzle where every part of a level can be moved in some way. The object of the game, as the title would suggest, is to remove all of the red pieces on the board. Light red pi read more
Higgs Waiting ’til November
scott's blog | August 11th 2009 by ScottM
It was announced today that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is planned to be reactivated laster this year, sometime in November. Having been fascinated with the LHC for years, I’ll be eagerly await the results. Will they immediately find eviden read more
Installing Scientific Packages on Mac OS X
Kuday Weblog | August 11th 2009 by Sinan
If you decided to buy a Macbook, the first think you need to know may be that “It’s not a Big Mac at all but rather it’s a Mac”. Don’t even think you can eat all the Mac Universe that goes around and is almost parallel to ou read more
Latest Suggestion To Start Global Cooling!
Latest Inventions | August 11th 2009 by TravelCat
Could we put loads of tiny ‘parasols’ in space to cool the Earth? There is currently some thought in the geo-engineering world that it could actually be possible to shield the Earth from some of the heating effects of the sun. Now, I know read more
Black hole bares all for science
weird things | August 10th 2009 by Greg Fish
Generally, when you think of a black hole, you probably imagine a pitch black sphere surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of white hot matter spinning around it. The pitch black “surface” of a black hole is the event horizon, a place where spa read more
Black Hole in November - CERN to re-open Hadron Collider
Gizmos for Geeks | August 10th 2009 by The Geeks
After being shut down for about a year, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is set to re-open in November, but only at half power (about 3.5 trillion electron volts). Love this photo of the LHC. Notice the guy standing on the platform in the middle. vi read more
Accredited Online Colleges – Associate’s Degree?
University Courses Online Get Your Degree Online | August 10th 2009 by CW
I’m interested in starting back to school in the next six months. I’ll likely be transitioning to a work-at-home situation with my current employer soon, and I’d like to multi-task with some online courses(light load to start, of co read more
Latihan Soal Pengukuran dan Konversi (Penting!)
Blog Guru Fisika | August 10th 2009 by Rudy Hilkya
Berikut berbagai soal latihan untuk pengukuran guna melengkapi tugas tadi pagi dan besok bagi X-1, X-2, dan X-3. Harap dilatih, diperhatikan, dikerjakan. Sebab keberhasilan anda adalah harapan saya yang terbaik. Ubahlah : 20 mil menjadi kilomet read more
New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics
The Global Technology | August 10th 2009 by wroogle
Figure : Surface electron band structure of bismuth telluride. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one da read more
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