Archive for the ‘Displaced phenomena’ Category
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
The theme of last year's holiday lecture, given twice at Harvard and once at Princeton, was Germs: A Detective Story.
The main part of the talk was about Dr. John Snow, who proved that Cholera is a water-borne illness caused by a bacterium. From the time he began to suspect this ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
{copper, silver}, {copper, gold}, {silver, gold} are fairly well known examples of binary alloys. Most jewelry is an alloy of these pairs, with a few other metals added in some proportion, intentional or not. Even when you buy the pure element, there is some fraction of impurities. A good and ...
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
The Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony is happening tonight at 7:15 in Sanders Theater at Harvard University. My friend and co-conspirator Joost and I will once again don our lab coats as Performing Scientists, and perpetrate two Moments of Science.
Each Moment of Science is a one minute science demonstration, presented and ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Must have been the upgrade to wordpress. I liked the categories, I guess I will put them back in. I can go over my ouevre and re-assign. I haven't hit 100 posts yet, so its not that laborious.
Physics demos today.
A rigid pair of verticals and a horizontal clamped up to ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I could use another week of Atlantic City, NJ. The surf off of the Chelsea Ave. beach was stellar, and I want more.
The torrential rains of two days filled the area between the boardwalk and dunes with brackish pools. The wind whipped waves moving from the left of a walkway ...
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