I’m dreaming of a white and sparkling christmas

Eternal life - Dyson vs. Krauss

Climate engineering as a band-aid solution

Krauss and an Overview of Cosmology
I’ll write a more interesting post soon, but for now, I present Lawrence Krauss. Here he gives, what I’ve decided to be, the best one hour overview of cosmology I’ve ever seen. (via richarddawkins.net) What do you all think about his suggestion that getting a universe from nothing is natural?

Blog Action Day 2009: Holimictic Lakes and Their Current Issues
So, in case you don’t know by now, it’s Blog Action Day 2009… ( or at least, it will be for another half hour. I’m a bit behind the times.) Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web.

Running in the Rain
So, I’ve never heard this myth before, but a friend asked me about it a while ago. The myth states that running in the rain will make you wetter when you arrive at your destination than if you had walked. This was on my mind recently because it was actually a bonus question in the physics lab I’m TAing for this year. Apparently Mythbusters showed that

The Physicist’s Toolbox: Thought Experiments
So maybe you’re a non-physicist, who wonders how physicists think. Maybe you aren’t really sure how those crazy physicists come up with all of these equations and theories seemingly from thin air. Maybe you’re getting a bit bored of F=ma posts. Well, I’m going to try my best to give you a bit of an inside look at some of the conceptual tools commonly used by physicists in a little series called: The Physicist’s Toolbox.