July 2005
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Guitars, Chevrolets, etc., etc.
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A shameless plug for a very talented friend: go listen to the fine music at Warren Malone’s site, and when you like it as much as I do, buy his CDs. And if you’re in New York (or in Oxford, UK, in October), catch one of his gigs.
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Mirror, Mirror
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For some reason, this blog (along with many others) is being mirrored at Physics and Math Planet. Given the Creative Commons License down at the lower right, this is perfectly legal, if a bit perverse. There’s no such thing as bad publicity, but please, readers, be sure to link directly to the original blog and…
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Pulsar Timing and Gravitational Waves
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Greetings en route from State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, the only University of which I am aware with a library named after its football coach, Joe Paterno. More relevant to me, Penn State is also the home of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, which has been hosting a workshop, “The Pulsar…
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Cosmic Variance: New blog on the block
Let me welcome to the scientific blogosphere Cosmic Variance, a new group blog featuring Clifford Johnson, a string theorist from USC; JoAnne Hewett, a particle theorist from SLAC at Stanford; Risa Wechsler & Sean Carroll, both cosmologists from the University of Chicago; and Mark Trodden from Syracuse University. Mark and Sean have already been blogging…
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The Liberal Arts
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Joe asks ‘what exactly is a “liberal arts college” (the writer [Ivan Tribble] works at one, it says)?’. According to the wikipedia A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education found [mostly] in the United States, offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level. They encourage — and often require —…
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Yet more on blogging academics…
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The buzz has died down, but I thought I’d respond to some comments on the last post about the perils of academic blogging. First, I should probably point out that I’m in a safe situation, with a permanent position in a good University (which I got well before I started this blog). Finally, Jerry correctly…
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Academics and blogging don’t mix?
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has an offensive article on the pseudonymous Ivan Tribble’s experience on a (reactionary, shortsighted, but perhaps not unusual) faculty search committee which rejected all the bloggers who applied. Aside from the obvious “don’t blog”, the lessons don’t seem to be restricted to the internet: Don’t have any interests outside of…
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Church comes out against science
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We scientists had somehow managed to fool ourselves into believing that, since John Paul II said that evolution was “more than just a hypothesis”, since they admitted some wrongdoing in the persecution of Galileo, that the Catholic Church was on the side of science. Sadly, perhaps inevitably, we were wrong. In an Op-Ed in yesterday’s…
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Nil Desperandum
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On September 11, having just moved to the UK about 10 days before, I was on a train up to a meeting in Durham, in the North of England, when news started filtering in via mobile phones (I didn’t have one myself at the time) and passengers coming on and off the train. With only…
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All ok.
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For anyone who might be checking, everything is OK with me amidst the chaos in London. Now I have to work out how to get back to Oxford, where I live. Echoing Gia’s sentiments: Londoners Rule. We are not terrorised.We are just annoyed. Update: Made it home, finally. I need a beer.
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