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Physics alerts … – The physics of freestyle aerialists

February 8th, 2010


NYTimes.com: Freestyle aerialists, skiers that hurtle off a curved ramp at 30 miles per hour, soaring six stories in the air while doing three back flips and up to five body twists, are not actually throwing caution to the winds….

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Physics alerts … – The physics of freestyle aerialists

February 7th, 2010


NYTimes.com: Freestyle aerialists, skiers that hurtle off a curved ramp at 30 miles per hour, soaring six stories in the air while doing three back flips and up to five body twists, are not actually throwing caution to the winds….

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Physics alerts … – The physics of freestyle aerialists

February 5th, 2010


NYTimes.com: Freestyle aerialists, skiers that hurtle off a curved ramp at 30 miles per hour, soaring six stories in the air while doing three back flips and up to five body twists, are not actually throwing caution to the winds….

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Applied Bio-physics updates : – How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: All the News That’s Fit to Keep Off the Web Page [Uncertain Principles] (ScienceBlogs)

January 27th, 2010


A few weeks back, I spoke on the phone with a freelance writer who was doing a piece for the Albany Times Union. She was putting together a joint article on How to Teach physics to Your Dog and the Atomville book put together by Jill Linz and Cindy Schwarz (at Skidmore and Vassar, respectively). The piece was published today: “physics without limits: Area writers explain quantum mechanics to …

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Physics alerts … – Advanced physics lab to be built at UMD

January 21st, 2010


washingtonpost.com: The work of physicists at the University of Maryland’s Joint Quantum Institute requires such precise environmental controls that some of the more sensitive experiments have to be run in the middle of the night, when there is less traffic…

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Physics alerts … – Advanced physics lab to be built at UMD

January 20th, 2010


washingtonpost.com: The work of physicists at the University of Maryland’s Joint Quantum Institute requires such precise environmental controls that some of the more sensitive experiments have to be run in the middle of the night, when there is less traffic…

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Physics alerts … – The irrational fears of radiation exposure

January 15th, 2010


The Guardian: The health dangers from nuclear radiation been oversold, stopping governments from fully exploiting nuclear power as a weapon against climate change, argues a professor of physics at Oxford University. Wade Allison does not question the dangers of high…

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Physics alerts … – The irrational fears of radiation exposure

January 14th, 2010


The Guardian: The health dangers from nuclear radiation been oversold, stopping governments from fully exploiting nuclear power as a weapon against climate change, argues a professor of physics at Oxford University. Wade Allison does not question the dangers of high…

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Physics alerts … – The irrational fears of radiation exposure

January 12th, 2010


The Guardian: The health dangers from nuclear radiation been oversold, stopping governments from fully exploiting nuclear power as a weapon against climate change, argues a professor of physics at Oxford University. Wade Allison does not question the dangers of high…

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Physics alerts … – A profile of Rashid Sunyaev

January 6th, 2010


Science: In 1960, at the height of the Cold War, Rashid Sunyaev left his home in Tashkent, the capital of Soviet Uzbekistan, to study physics in Moscow. He was then 17 years old, with exceptional mathematical talent—the kind of student…

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