Saturday, May 31, 2014

"Effect Diminished Under Empirical Scrutiny."

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Today's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has the following choice line: What's the scientific way to say "We fucked up?...
Friday, May 30, 2014

The Phillie Phanatic's Bar Mitzvah

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The Phillie Phanatic took its turn up in the proverbial chair for its Bar Mitzvah. That's pretty damn funny.

Estimating Expected Age from a Name

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Fivethirtyeight.com has some very cool infographics that summarizes some basic features of distributions of names for people based on age....
Thursday, May 29, 2014

What Happens at NetSci Stays at NetSci (2014 Edition)

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Tomorrow I'll be flying off to the US to head over to Berkeley for NetSci 2014 , where I will be giving way too many talks. It promises...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Booze Under the Microscope

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Here are some awesome pictures of booze under the microscope. I approve!
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

YouTube Goes Nonlinear!

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YouTube goes nonlinear! Yup, that's right: Steve Strogatz has posted videos of his lectures from his course on an introduction to non...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Timelapse Video: Ants Devouring a Gecko

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This video of ants devouring a dead gecko is kind of gruesome, but it's also fascinating. They picked it clean!
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Josh Beckett Pitches a No-Hitter!

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Josh Beckett of the Dodgers has pitched a no-hitter ! This was the first no-hitter of 2014 and, more importantly, it was the first no-hitter...

Coach Manny Ramirez

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In bizarre news the Cubs have signed Manny Ramirez to be a player-coach at AAA . The idea of Manny Ramirez coaching anybody makes me LOL.
Friday, May 23, 2014

RIP Richard L. Liboff (1931–2014)

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Steve Strogatz just e-mailed me to let me know that Richard Liboff , my PhD supervisor, has died. The obituary only came out yesterday, but ...

The Science of Failure

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One popular thing to study in complex systems these days is the so-called science of success . One of these days, I hope to have a suitabl...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Singular 'They' and Personal Pronouns of Indeterminate Gender

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Damn you, English, for not having a non-awkward singular personal pronoun of indeterminate gender. Apparently, the singular 'they'...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

RIP Martin Gutzwiller (1925–2014)

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It went under my radar, but Martin Gutzwiller (a pioneer in quantum chaos and other fields of physics) died on 3 March 2014. I was lookin...

New Journal for Data Sharing from Nature Publish Group

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I strongly approve of Nature Publishing Group's new journal that focuses on data sharing. This will do a lot of good! Sometimes, one h...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

What Happens in Dresden Stays in Dresden

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I am taking the train from Berlin to Dresden, where I will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems . I'...

Two-Dimensional Rubens' "Tube"

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Here is a two-dimensional version of a Rubens' Tube , which is a flame-based apparatus for demonstrating standing waves. Very cool!
Friday, May 16, 2014

Discontinuity (for my Love)

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Some words of wisdom that I gave to some of my freshers today: "Discontinuity" is a better word for this than "jump"... ...

What Happens in Berlin Stays in Berlin

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This evening, I'll be flying to Berlin to visit one of my high school friends for a couple of days. I'll be there until Sunday afte...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Nomenclature of Academic Events

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Jorge forgot "journal club" in this handy flowchart for naming academic events . (Tip of the cap to Amir Zarrinpar.)
Friday, May 02, 2014

Physicians Versus Physicists

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At lunch today, there was some confusion on whether one of my colleagues was a physician or a physicist (he's the latter). My contributi...