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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “physics”

• Real numbers

  
  Alexander Pruss's Blog — Authority: 126
  For a long time Ive been puzzled—and I still am—by this. Our physics is based on the real numbers (complex numbers, vectors, Banach spaces—all that is built out of real numbers). After all, there are non-standard numbers that can do everything real numbers can. So what reason do we have to think that "the" ...
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• NSLS-II Project Beamline Conceptual Designs

  
  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — Authority: 807
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division achieved an important milestone in September when the conceptual design reports for the initial six project beamlines were completed and submitted to NSLS-II management.
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• 50 Years Ago: The Nutcracker Man

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  NOVEMBER 1959 NERVE GROWTH -- “No longer do physicians encourage the patient with a regenerated facial nerve to try to regain control of facial expression by training; their advice today is to inhibit all expression, to practice a ‘poker face’ in order to make the two sides of the face match in appearance. ...
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• Accelerating Science, an interactive exposition of particle physics

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Title: Accelerating Science, an interactive exposition of particle physics Location: Globe, CERN, Route de Meyrin, Meyrin Link out: Click here Description: A tunnel that looks suspiciously like the interior of the Large Hadron Collider is the venue for a look at all the science we don’t know yet. Entry ...
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• Ahead of PM’s visit, India, US to discuss climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) US Energy Secretary Steven Chu will hold talks with Indian officials later this week over climate change and clean energy, one of the important issues on the table when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington Nov 24.Chu is expected to meet ...
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• ASSISTANT LECTURER at Distance Learning Institute of the University

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 160
  Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant academic post in the Distance Learning Institute of the University of Lagos.ASSISTANT LECTURER Area of Specialization(i)         Accounting(ii)        Business Administration(iii)       Biology(iv)       ...
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• ASSISTANT LECTURER at Distance Learning Institute of the University

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 160
  Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant academic post in the Distance Learning Institute of the University of Lagos.ASSISTANT LECTURER Area of Specialization(i)         Accounting(ii)        Business Administration(iii)       Biology(iv)       ...
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• LECTURER II at Distance Learning Institute of the University

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 160
  Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant academic post in the Distance Learning Institute of the University of Lagos. LECTURER II Area of Specialization(i)         Accounting(ii)        Business Administration(iii)       Biology(iv)       ...
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• LECTURER I at Distance Learning Institute of the University

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 160
  Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant academic post in the Distance Learning Institute of the University of Lagos. LECTURER I Area of Specialization(i)         Accounting(ii)        Business Administration(iii)       Biology(iv)       ...
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• Going and Going and Going …

  
  Swans on Tea — Authority: 435
  I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included. So I had to buy them again. Steven Wright Cocktail Party Physics: batteries not included Some historians believe primitive batteries were used in Iraq and Egypt as early as 200 B.C. for electroplating and precious metal gilding. Around the 1790s, through ...
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• The Wind in Spain Blows Mainly on the Plain

  
  Swans on Tea — Authority: 435
  Spain reaches new wind record: 45.1% of Spain’s total electricity demand That’s a peak value. On average throughout the year, wind energy meets 12% of Spain’s electricity demand. The largest producer of wind power in Spain is Iberdrola, with 27 percent of capacity, followed by Acciona on 16 percent and ...
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• Quantization of event horizon radius and Quasar Redshifts

  
  Mass — Authority:
  I’m getting ready for the FFP10 meeting later this month. In reading the abstracts of those who will be giving talks or posters, I came upon “Analyses of the 2dF deep field” by Chris Fulton , Halton Arp and John G. Hartnett . The abstract is about the relationship between low redshift and high redshift ...
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• 2012 Isn’t Paranormal Pandering

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 455
  Let’s define some terms from the get-go. While there are many web sites, books, and coming movies that are appealing to humanhoods lower state (pandering) the reality of 2012 appeals to one’s higher consciousness. And while there are potentially many physical abnormalities (unique events like coronal mass ...
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• Next generation spammers rise up in Asia, India and Brazil

  
  Spamzy — Authority: 110
  High-speed broadband allows worldwide miscreantingA new generation of spammers is rising up in regions such as Asia Pacific, Japan, and South America, and beginning to outstrip their North American counterparts in junk mail output.…Offloading malware protection to the cloudHere is the original: Next generation ...
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• Contracts Awarded for Production of NSLS-II Storage Ring Magnets

  
  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — Authority: 807
  (PhysOrg.com) -- All seven contracts for the production of the NSLS-II storage ring magnets have now been awarded -- a significant milestone for the project. The magnets -- 750 in total -- will be made by vendors in the United States, Russia, China, Europe, and New Zealand.
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• THE SILVER SCREEN: Part 2

  
  Lenny Lipton — Authority: 103
  Silver screens, if they are well made and installed, can have minimal hot-spotting, but they still have what I call shading.  I make a distinction between hot-spotting and shading.  Although they may come about from the same reflective characteristics of the screen, shading has to do with an asymmetrical change in ...
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• Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm

  
  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — Authority: 807
  (PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster than conventional computers can.
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• Odd Trio Frees the Patent Database, Lulu to Start Offering DRM, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 132
  A coalition of the unlikely frees the patent database Carl Malamud explains at O’Reilly Radar how so-called zero dollar deals by government agencies often lead to proprietary lock-in of public data. He then explains how three unlikely comrades–Intellectual Ventures, Google, and the Internet Archive–cooperated ...
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• Scientist Smackdown: Can Nanoparticles Damage Human DNA?

  
  80beats — Authority: 655
  “Nanoparticles can cause DNA damage across a cellular barrier.” That’s the title of a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology that inspired a number of ominous news headlines (two examples: Nanoparticles ‘can damage DNA ‘ and Nanoparticles can damage DNA at a distance: study ). The stories that ...
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• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Internships – Deadline March 31, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab offers science and engineering internships each summer. The program provides practical work experience and an introduction to APL. Students spend the summer working with APL scientists and engineers, conducting research, developing leadership skills, and growing ...
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