friday fodder, july 29, 2011
It's been a few weeks since we had a roundup of Friday Fodder here at the cocktail party, and it's high time we got back …
Friday Fodder
embracing change
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. Regular readers know that Cocktail Party Physics celebrated its five-year anniversary …
drunken masters of lingua franca
We're having a bit of a thematic installment of Friday Fodder this week. See, I regrettably missed this year's Acoustical Society of America meeting in …
friday fodder #12
It's been a deadline-centric week so blogging has been light, with only the occasional foray into interesting things on the internet. For instance, Jen-Luc Piquant …
from the fringes
Just got back from a whirlwind road trip to San Francisco, where the unqualified highlight after a long rewarding day was meeting up with uber-mensch …
space squid, atomic dance, and people magnets
It's time for the weekly cool science links post — Vegas edition! The Time Lord whisked me off to Sin City for my birthday, and …
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out with a (big) bang
We're back with another weekly round-up of intriguing physics-related stories culled from all over the Intertubes — including the mystery of what happened to that …
royal wedding bell blues
You might not expect it, but Jen-Luc Piquant is all aflutter about the forthcoming nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Her former rather curmudgeonly …
easter weekend fodder
It's been a long week of immersing myself in work, but Jen-Luc Piquant has not been idle, and has ferreted out another intriguing collection of …
rock ’em sock ’em linkage
We are swamped with a two-day conference and subsequent deadline pressures, so this week's Friday roundup is going to be a bit abbreviated. But there's …