This is old news for many of my friends, but I was showing it to someone at work, which sparked off a funny stream of Britney things (see below) but I thought that the Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics: semiconductor physics, Edge Emitting Lasers and VCSELs warranted a post. It is a little known fact, that Ms Spears is an expert in semiconductor physics. Not content with just singing and acting, in the following pages, she will guide you in the fundamentals of the vital laser components that have made it possible to hear her super music in a …
Tag: Science & Technology
Chopstick Adjustments And The Wonder That Is The Human Brain
Right now I’m reading a great book on consciousness that was sent to me by my Texan friends, I think it was specifically Julia though I can’t be sure, the list of who sent what is buried deep in my bookcase. The book is not exactly recent, but good: Merlin Donald‘s A Mind So Rare (see a review here, and another here, and one last, slightly more critical, one here). In it Donald sets out to debunk some of the kinds of consciousnessn theorizing that’ve been advanced by people like Dennet (see a recent interview with old Dennet here) and …
Hot Abercrombie Chick Misses A Major Point In Her Discussion of Natural Evil
A certain self-named Hot Abercrombie Chick has been constructing arguments about the existence of God. While she may be hot and may be a philosophy major, her essay has generated far too many comments relative to the content. Not to be nasty… it’s a nice attempt but even a theist ought to be embarrassed at such a simplistic conception of “it all”. One note from the world of physics that might help clear up things: the anthropic cosmological principle forwarded by, among others, Frank J. Tipler (before he went crazy—here’s a review of that insanity) claims that the structure of …
Newsmap
Here’s a cool gizmo that Budaechigae posted about recently: a Newsmap app online that builds maps of the most-focused-on news items that have passed through the Google aggregator. This, it seems to me, is how we will be looking at the news everyday in twenty years, though by then I’m sure we’ll be able to weigh it by keyword references, topics, poltical slant, journos we like, and so on. That’s gonna be a fascinating time.
Things We All Ought To See
Everyone should go look at the images and news at this site every once in a while. I don’t much care about strange sounds being heard on the space station but I do think that seeing images of space is about the closest thing we can have to that old story of the Romantic Era when poets looked at waterfalls and clouds and had intimations of the eternal, and felt holy terror at the immensity of nature and the tininess of themselves. This image, by the way, is of Venus in Pleiades. I remember seeing Pleiades, also known as the …