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Archive for August 13th, 2008

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

The Cravery of Being Out of Range

What I infer from the Post’s report on continued Russian action after the supposed beginning of the ceasefire is that the Russians are taking the time to destroy as many Georgian military bases and equipment depots as they can find and get to near the South-Ossetian border. These bases were mostly built with Western help, [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

A crow of mass m is eaten on an inclined plane of angle theta….

By Thoreau
I have long complained that the problems in freshman mechanics seem so removed from what we physicists actually do, and I wish our curriculum better reflected the excitement of our field, the intellectual challenges that keep us motivated.
So, imagine my surprise today when I’m in a seminar and the student shows a diagram of [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

You may not believe in God, but you should believe in Murphy

By Thoreau
You know, it just figures that my laptop would decide that the best time to start randomly crashing would be the week before a massive grant proposal is due.
Heckuva job, Dell.
EDIT 1:  Now I have a cold.  Yeah, Murphy is in full swing this week.
EDIT 2:  It’s a graphics card problem.  When we restart [...]