29 Jul
- The Science entry posted on July 29th, 2005.
GDR writes:
I find time as defined by relativity fascinating and confusing.
For example we say that a particular star is 10 billion light years away. We are saying that the light from this star took 10 billion years to reach us travelling at the speed of light. If however we had a seat on the photon [...]
I’ve been extremely busy lately. I apologize for the lack of activity on the site.
Art of Science Competition is a fascinating and beautiful cross section of the arts and sciences at Princeton. It celebrates the aesthetics of research and the ways in which science and art inform each other.
Interesting links and stuff:
London on Technorati
London on Flickr
London Bomb Blasts
Metroblogging London
Google News
CNN Timeline
WikiNews
Wikipedia Entry
London Transport Site
Bomb Locations on Google Maps
2 Jul
- The Culture entry posted on July 2nd, 2005.
UTAH WOMAN USES HEAD TO GET CHILD IN SCHOOL — Let’s hear it for America!
The Science of Word Recognition — The goal of this paper is to review the history of why psychologists moved from a word shape model of word recognition to a letter recognition model, and to help others to come to the same conclusion.
Are brains analog, or digital? — A new study conducted at Cornell University suggests that we think in analog, not digital. It’s a bold claim which if true, threatens to make thirty years of linguistics and neuroscience metaphors look very silly indeed.