Friday, September 30, 2011

2011 Ig Nobel Prizes

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Here are the 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes . By the way, "structured procrastination" (see the literature prize in the link) is exactly w...

None of the Stereotypes are True!

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Quora compiled some of the search statistics of some of the top US schools (Caltech, Stanford, etc.), and they found that there is no eviden...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Historically Choking

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As baseball fans reading this know, the Red Sox and Braves both completed their epic chokes, and neither of them have made the playoffs. In...

I'll Take Ergodicity for the Win.

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The room in which I'll be discussing statistical mechanics problem sheets this fall has a microscopic whiteboard, which will cause signi...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Freshman Seminars at Caltech

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Wow. I wish these freshman seminars were offered at Caltech when I was a student there. Some of those look really neat, and that's ju...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Help Save Math in the UK!

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EPSRC, the research council that claims to fund mathematics, announced a policy that postdoctoral fellowships in mathematics will henceforth...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Today's Google Doodle is Awesome!

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Today's Google Doodle is awesome ! It honors the late Jim Henson on his 75th birthday. I played around with it a bit, and I managed to...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Two Dodgers and a Dunn

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With last night's showing (3 doubles and a homer in 5 at bats), Matt Kemp 's quest for the Triple Crown---leading* one of the league...

Somerville College and the Immutable Laws of Physics

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An e-mail sent today at 3:15 pm included the following statement: I would be grateful if you were able to reply to the Academic Office by no...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Bring back the Caltech Bookstore

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Three years ago, my alma mater Caltech decimated its bookstore, which now almost exclusively memorabilia (rather than, e.g., books). It doe...

R.E.M. Calls It Quits

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Well this sucks : R.E.M. announced on their website today that they're calling it quits. Hopefully, they'll get back together some...

Googly Eyes

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Amazon just sent me an e-mail suggesting that I might be interested in the following items: * Black & White Wiggly/Wobbly/Googly Eyes ...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Vote for Me. :)

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I am one of the two candidates to become Secretary (2012-2013) for SIAM's Activity Group on Dynamical Systems . You can find a listing ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Mariano Rivera Sets Saves Record: Arrrrrrrr!

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Ahoy, Mateys! Yankee relief pitcher Mariano Rivera , t' best Major League reliever ever, recorded career save number 602 , which puts ...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

I'm Like Madonna: I Only Need One Name

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See what I mean?
Friday, September 16, 2011

The Professor in the Sweater

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I just received an e-mail from my collaborator Peter Mucha with these words: Dude, I think you are now officially the professor in the sweat...

Moo

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My first paper on cow synchronization has now been published in final form. Title: A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics and Synchroniza...

Snarkiness with Spelling Mistakes

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Here is a website that compiles snarky responses to misspellings on Facebook . Some of the comments are really obnoxious, but they're a...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

This one is for all of those programmers out there...

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According to this comic strip from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, humans are part of the junk code . Well, maybe. (Tip of the cap to ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Scala & The Kolacny Brothers

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Kevin Hickerson posted this cover version of "Creep" by Scala & The Kolacny Brothers , which is "a Belgian girls' ch...
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