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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
Complex networks, robustness, and attacks
László Barabási’s office is down the hall from my own, and he’s an amazing scientist who works on the statistical mechanics of complex networks. I’ve never heard him speak before yesterday, but at yesterday’s talk he gave a great introduction … Continue reading
The Guardian’s Bad Science Column
The weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian looks like fun. The latest one is about strange ideas on dietary supplements being used as anti-bacterial agents, but my favorite by far is the request for the most stupid thing anyone … Continue reading
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Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
This paragraph is from Daniel Dennett’s 1995 book, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life: "Now if you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason-responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief … Continue reading
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Raining Perseids
The August 6th Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a large number of superimposed 30-second exposures of the Perseid meteor shower. The perseid shower peaked last Friday, but this is a great picture.
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Breaking Visual CAPTCHA
I just ran across this wonderful article by Mori and Malik on a technique to break the EZ-Gimpy visual CAPTCHA images that attempt to distinguish between human and automated blog commenters. (Comment, memberlist, trackback and forum spam are a huge … Continue reading
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Kung Fu Science
Kung Fu Science, the physics of Kung Fu! When I first heard about the site, I thought that physical combat would be an odd way to settle scientific disputes, although it would make comment-response sections in the journals a much … Continue reading
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