Top quark motto: Live fast, die young.
To a physicist, clear results from the particle’s decay certainly look good.
They could have added: “Leave a good looking corpse”
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Haunted
The Maundy Thursday liturgy (foot washing, eucharist, and stripping of the altar) at St. Mary’s last night was good. The music is still going through my head.
My Favorite Academic Prank
The Sokal hoax came out in 1996, not too far from AFD. I first read about it in the restrained pages of Physics Today, but I like Salon’s account. I have never been able to take postmodernism seriously since then. H.L. Mencken would have loved it. See also
DogBoss
Duluth Trading Company‘s specials for today :-)>
Really long range thinking
Back in December I linked to The End of the Universe by John Baez, Continue reading
Professor X: You’re Doin’ It Wrong
From There, I fixed it.
It looks like a class on Linear Programming.
Yes, I know. I am terminally geeky.
Mathematics in the Soviet Union
The I.M. Gelfand Seminar.
From John Baez.
A man was led astray….
Notes on web browsers under Linux
Someday…
Grandma, by Chase Stone. Via Bad Astronomy
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 