Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Interesting report on how blogging can improve introductory physics courses.

By Thoreau
In order to do this job, you need to be able to move back and forth between the most sophisticated questions and the least sophisticated questions.
High:  Yesterday morning, I’m typing in a review “The data in figure such and such includes a sharp dip in signal exactly where theory predicts it should happen, with […]

Didn’t watch the Barry Special Halloween last night. Did Obama see the Great Pumpkin?
I think a better show would be, what if Lassie has Munchausen-by-Proxy Syndrome, and keeps knocking Timmy down the well herself? Mrs. Martin figures out what’s going on and hires Cesar Millan to cure her. After Lassie knocks him down the well, […]

By Thoreau
Richard Dawkins plans to study whether children are harmed by reading fairy tales with witches and wizards.
Look, I get the case against religion. I get why Dawkins is against religion. I do. I get it. But there is a big difference between religion (which parents present to children as truth) […]

By Thoreau
The word “socialism” can mean many things to many people, anything from Western European style social welfare to state ownership of the means of production to the New Deal or the Great Society or a wide range of other usages. I’ll let those who know (or at least claim to know) more about […]

By Thoreau
This is a beautiful piece of work by a group that decided to do some high powered modeling of blood flow, and back it up with 3D imaging of real blood vessel networks.
And the movies look pretty nice.  Check it out.

By Thoreau
It’s still Tuesday in my time zone.  Not to mention in Hawaii!  (Although Sarah Palin would remind us that people born there aren’t real Americans.)
Today’s Monkey Tuesday blogging is about actual monkeys, not the chimps that make up most Monkey Tuesday posts.  I discovered a cute site with pictures of baby animals born in […]

By Mona
Over at AoTP I am wondering how some of the rest of you handle issues of mortality, including tragic losses.

By Thoreau
Leonidas Chocolates is having an Election Day Sale, but for some reason it ends before Election Day. So vote early and often on the one thing we can all agree on.
UPDATE: I have just been informed that some of those chocolates have Belgian birth certificates and may not be eligible to stand […]

The Republican base that will be left after this election. Somehow the GOP is going to please these people and fashion a future winning coalition. Go for it.

I did not know that Cato-at-Liberty has a handy RSS customization tool. You can specify specific subjects for your feed. I love the work of their foreign policy, civil liberties and intellectual property scholars. I find that a little school voucher talk goes a long way. Accordingly I tweak my feed, and am happy.

Your truer words were never spoken words of the day come from Benjamin H. Friedman of Cato:
What’s important to keep in mind is that cutting defense spending requires cutting defense commitments and force structure. [Barney] Frank is quoted saying: “We don’t need all these fancy new weapons.” That’s true, but you don’t save 25% of […]