Why Waiting in Line Is Torture
We’ll never eliminate lines altogether, but a better understanding of the psychology of waiting can help make those inevitable delays a touch more bearable.
Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa
Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration. A...
A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr : NPR
Could crowd-sourced photo sharing be the future of taxonomy? Cybertaxonomy?
Punjab girl hires contract killers to eliminate parents for opposing her marriage - The Times of Ind
Manpreet Kaur wanted to kill her father, mother and brother as they opposed to her decision of marrying her beau, who was already married.
PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum
There are two ways to teach quantum mechanics. The first way -- which for most physicists today is still the only way -- follows the historical order in which the ideas were discovered. So, you start with classical mechanics and electrodynamics, solving lots of grueling differential equations at e...
Hasnain says:
Scott Aaronson on how to teach Quantum Mechanics. Interesting...
Posted on 2012-07-31T21:15:04+0000
Indranil Gupta on distributed systems : engineers onstage : rnd.io
Ravi: The date today is March 29th, 2012. We're here in Mountain View, California, with Indy Gupta—Indranil Gupta—how do you say it?
The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook—He’s an Artist
On a bright May afternoon in 2007, a German artist and printmaker named Hans-Jürgen Kuhl took a seat at an outdoor café directly...
Print - The Perfect Compliment - Esquire
Recently, a few people told me that I looked good, that I'd lost weight. It made me feel good, then it made me feel bad. It was a compliment, sure. But then I realized it's just something you say to a big guy to get the conversation rolling. It might have even seemed the perfect compliment upon deli...
http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir/pguo-PhD-grind.pdf
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Hasnain says:
Everyone going to - or considering going to - grad school should read this. It's a riveting 115 page read, and very informative.
Posted on 2012-06-30T16:08:38+0000
The Surprising Truths About Income Inequality in America: Big Issues: GQ
Frantz says he has never even seen a customer or a menu at the steak house where he toils in the kitchen. "If I get money," says the Haitian immigrant, "I'm going to leave."