What else am I to conclude from recent UFO reports out of Texas, except that no one in the entire town had a cell phone with a camera? Or a digital camera? Do the aliens use data from cell phone usage and digital camera usage when they decide where to do their joy riding?
Oh, and I will be happy to update this post when photos emerge! (I grew up reading UFO books, by the way. I credit them with developing an idea for what science is and is not.)
Happenings in the Quantum World: January 16, 2007
Graphene quantum dots as qubits, Quantum Zeno effect, and the APS March meeting.
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Quantum Hoops in Berkeley
Quantum Hoops, a movie about the Caltech basketball team, will be playing in Berkeley at the Landmark Shattuck Cinemas. Now if only we could get it up here in the Pacific Northwet.
Why Can't They All be Sunports?
Speaking of airports, why can’t there be more airports like Albuquerque’s Sunport: free wireless and even nice places to plug in and lay out your laptop:
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Too Connected
Are you a geek if you write a blog post from an airplane seat? And the airplane door is…
Ski New York?
The New York Time’s reaches new heights of self-delusion: It’s not as if New York’s resorts are considered inferior. Counting as your props recommendations from Ski magazine is just awesome. Ever notice how every single article in Ski magazine references a ski area from all major ski regions? I wonder why that i$?
What Is an Uncomputer?
Sean watches a panel discussion on whether the universe is a computer, looks up the definition of a computer, and decides that instead the universe is a calculation. If thinking about the universe as a computer is designed to make computer scientists feel important, thinking about the universe as a calculation seems designed to make theoretical physicists feel important 🙂 But what I find interesting is that Sean points to a question asked by Tony Leggett: “What kind of process does not count as a computation?”
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Emailing Those Responsible for Science Funding Cuts
Mad about the funding cuts in science? Why not send an letter to those responsible?
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Kitchener: Center of Science
I knew the Perimeter Institute was big, but enough to bump Kitchener to the second highest concentration of scientists in municipalities of its size in Canada?
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