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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Too Busy to Stop and Hear the Music: follow-up discussion about Gene Weingarten's Joshua Bell article in the Post.

Stolen Kisses: According to this Pscyhology Today article, 20 percent of long-term relationships begin via mate poaching.

France: Vive Les Nukes: article about France's nuclear energy industry and a global resurgence in interest in nuclear energy in light of global warming and raising oil prices. One interesting comment, because of France's reliance on nuclear energy, it has the cleanest air in the industrialized world.

Epicenter: long, extremely interesting interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Big Bang at the atomic lab after scientists get their maths wrong: accident will delay the LHC coming online.

A Giant Leap Forward in Computing? Maybe Not: D-Wave gets some skeptical press. Scott Aaronson, vocal D-Wave skeptic and quoted in the NYT article, has some more comments in his blog.

Carinval of Mathematics, Ordinal 5: Carnival of Mathematics #5 is out Science and Reason blog.

week249: a new addition of John Baez's This Week's Finds is out. He talks about Felix Klein's "Erlangen program" for applying group theory to the study of geometry, and continues with the tale of groupoidification.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Happy Easter!

Pearls Before Breakfast: The Washington Post plants violin virtuoso Joshua Bell in a D.C. metro stop and sees what happens. Amazing. You must read.

the speech accent archive: Awesome. A huge collection of speakers from all over the world reading the same sample text, with links to language and accent information.

The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt: in Rolling Stone. Who killed JFK? LBJ.

Crazy Construction Accident in Dubai: breach of a retaining wall has stopped work on the 80-story Infinity Tower. With pictures.

Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics: home page for the book.

Quantum Gravity Seminar: Baez starts back up for the spring semester. Classical vs. quantum computation has been renamed cohomology and computation.