Thursday, February 28, 2013

What Happens in Davis Stays in Davis

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I am going to take a cab to the Fremont Amtrak station and then a train to Davis, where I will be giving a talk in UC Davis's math depar...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

"Report: Cops Look for Sausage"

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Well, the Italian Sausage has gone AWOL . You know, I really hope that Randall Simon is somehow involved. That would rock! (And in case...
Monday, February 25, 2013

I'm... Too Sexy For This List... Too Sexy For This List...

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Business Insider has published its list of the 50 sexiest scientists . To paraphrase Right Said Fred: I'm... too sexy for this list. T...

Ancient d20

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Oh, wow! Ancient Egyptians were apparently rolling 20-sided dice . That is incredibly awesome! (Tip of the cap to Game Empire of Pasaden...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Archives of Dragon Magazine are Online

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The archives of Dragon magazine are online . Very cool! (This is a very nice resource for role-playing.) (Tip of the cap to Andy Sayer....

Today's Fortune: My "Emotional Currents are Flowing"

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I just got the following fortune today: "Your emotional currents are flowing powerfully now [in bed]." I guess "emotional c...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

"Multi-Stage Complex Contagions"

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I just blogged about my new paper on billiards , which just got published in final form today in Chaos . Well, the very next article in the...

"Two-Particle Circular Billiards Versus Randomly Perturbed One-Particle Circular Billiards"

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My first paper on billiards since 2006 has just been published in final form. Here are the details. Title: Two-Particle Circular Billia...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

New Punctuation Marks

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Here are eight new punctuation marks for you to use and abuse . A couple of them are awesome. Sadly, they missed to 'bidirectional sem...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Jose Canseco's Theory of Gravity

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Jose Canseco promised his thoughts on gravity and then he delivered his theory of gravity in a sequence of Twitter posts. Wow. Why did...

"Dark Solitary Waves in a Class of Collisionally Inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensates"

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A new paper of mine just got published in final form today. It's my first paper on Bose-Einstein condensates since 2008 (or, as Georg ...

What Happens in Chapel Hill Stays in Chapel Hill

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I am now in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to visit my collaborator Peter Mucha at University of North Carolina. I will also be giving their ...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

Tales from the ArXiv: Baby Names and Random Walks

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Well, how about that: using things like PageRank and other random-walk algorithms to come up with baby names. It's crazy, but I kind o...

Sacrificing Privacy in Order to Referee a Paper?

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Maybe I am just in an ornery mood this morning, but I don't think I should have to sign an annoying web privacy policy when I am being a...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

APS is Going to Kathmandu?

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The American Physical Society seems to have farmed out is page proof productions to a company whose employees are e-mailing me from the +053...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Profiling?

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A funny thing happened on the way back from campus... I was walking from campus to the bus station when a police officer pulled me aside ...

How to Woo a Scientist

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Here is some published advice for how to woo a scientist . Here is one excellent quote from the article: Scientists are also typically sto...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Awesome Google Doodle!

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Today's (Feb 14) Google Doodle is superb! It honors both Valentine's Day and George Ferris. It is also interactive, and you can s...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Mathematicians and OCD

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No, mathematicians do not have OCD . Not at all. P.S. I am guilty as charged. (And for what it's worth, I actually find the idea in ...

Ambiguous Fortune Cookie

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"The world will soon be ready to receive your talents [in bed]." The two possible meanings are pretty different from each other ...