Tim and I went to Portland for a couple of days. Apart from the obligatory visit to Powell’s and a couple of microbreweries, we also went to an NBA game. Tim likes live sports, and there isn’t a professional basketball team in Vancouver, so it seemed like a chance to do something we wouldn’t normally [...]
Lest anyone think that physicists don’t care about the real world, Bob Park publishes a short weekly newsletter that touches on subjects ranging from scientific hoaxes to inconsistencies in the way the U.S. Administration handles various issues. It mostly concentrates on science and technology, but not only. The Friday, October 26, 2007 newsletter also discusses [...]
If you have cats, or even if you don’t, this video is worth watching. From Lauren Cooney’s This was my morning…. This is often my morning as well.
If you haven’t seen the photos from the Cassini spacecraft’s trip to Saturn, you should. In Saturn’s Shadow shows photos shot in Saturn’s shadow, screening the camera from the sun’s glare. That little blue dot in the upper left corner of PIA 08329? That’s the earth.
Link from Presentation Zen.
In the midst of the U.S. housing crisis, Paul Kedrosky asks, quite reasonably, Why Do We Want People to Own Homes? I’ve been wondering that myself. Is it because people think houses are a good investment? Because they have sentimental attachments to the idea of owning the roof over their head? Because they want to [...]
I know why it happened, but it still strikes me as odd, the fact that the goalposts kept moving, as it were, with copyright. And it’s weird no matter whether the copyright is there to give other people rights to use, copy and modify the work, or rights to the author to protect and profit [...]
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