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Author Archives: Dan Gezelter
Odd Sign on Campus
A sign posted all over campus today: REMEMBER KRAKATOA August 26, 1883 That’s all the signs say! Is this a public service project from our civil engineering and geosciences department?
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Interesting Molecular Structures
Two cool (or hot) chemical structures today: Chavicine (I’m testing image uploads, and why not test with something interesting.) Everyone knows that Capsaicin is the hot stuff in chili peppers. Fewer people know that Chavicine is the hot stuff in … Continue reading
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Archaology and open source
The members of the Arc-Team (five archaeologists) run Debian and some other GNU/Linux distributions on three PCs and five notebooks (our whole system). We’ve installed Grass-GIS, different CADs, some applications for virtual reconstruction, statistics, GPS and survey data management, databases … Continue reading
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NYT series on Intelligent Design
I’ve tried to like the science reporting in the times on the ID controversy, but I just can’t. This third article was OK, but reading the first two was like listening to fingernails on a blackboard. I wish journalists didn’t … Continue reading
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Did the tin phase transition end the Scott expedition?
The Wikipedia entry on tin pest mentions the claim that the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole may have been doomed by Tin pest (just as Napoleon’s army was). The Scott party, returning from the pole after discovering that … Continue reading
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Edward Tufte and Napoleon’s Buttons
Edward Tufte describes this graphic drawn by Charles Joseph Minard as the “best statistical graphic ever drawn”. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the graphic depicts the size of Napoleon’s as the width of a line that shrinks from an initial … Continue reading
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Woo Hoo!
Yay! Our Nanoparticle vibrational dynamics paper is up on the J. Phys. Chem. B site. This paper really owes a lot to an anonymous reviewer who pointed something out in the review stage. We spent a long time figuring out … Continue reading
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Harry Potter and the recessive allele
I’m sure everyone has seen this by now, but this correspondence in Nature is a great read: Harry Potter and the recessive allele.
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Elliot Sober on the Design Argument
I was just reading this article on the Design Argument contributed to The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Religion by Elliot Sober. Here’s a quick two-paragraph quote: In the continuing conflict (in the United States) between evolutionary biology and creationism, … Continue reading
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Asymmetric links in random networks and the diameter of the “Blogosphere”
Yesterday’s post had some discussion about complex, scale-free network theory. Since I posted that, I’ve been wondering about network theory as it relates to the blogging community. By now, everyone has seen a “blogroll” list which is essentially a listing … Continue reading