Here’s a great little article from Discover Magazine about the physics of shooting free throws. Hall of Fame forward Rick Barry was one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, being the only player ever to lead the NCAA, NBA, and ABA in scoring. When he left the game, Barry was sixth on the NBA-ABA all-time
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I recently came across this great interview by Discover Magazine with Sir Roger Penrose of Oxford University. Penrose has made monumental contributions to theoretical physics, geometry, and mathematics. He’s also the author of The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road To Reality, and invented what are now called Penrose tiles, which are geometric shapes that can
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In work to be presented at this week’s American Physical Society, Andrew Cleland and his team will describe results from an experiment where they have effectively supersized the effects of quantum physics. Normally, quantum effects are only apparent at the very smallest of scales. However, scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara recently
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60 Minutes did a two-part story interviewing Michael Lewis on his new book, The Big Short. In his book, Lewis details how probably only 10 or 20 people in the entire financial sector knew what was going to happen, and how Wall Street nearly created its own demise. In the 60 Minutes piece, Lewis describes
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No, NASA geeks didn’t become Lady Gaga fans overnight, but they did find some surprising things as they investigated the depths of the Antarctican ice sheet. In an article on AOL News, scientists found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish living underneath 600 feet of the Antarctic ice sheet. It is safe to say that
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Unfortunately, I can’t find a real good reason to post this – except the fact that I LOVE Seinfeld, and I thought these T-shirts were some of the coolest things I’ve run across in a while. Since there was a Seinfeld episode about Jerry going to see “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, I thought I’d
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I really enjoyed this post from Seth Godin about just plain trying something different. In many things that we do in life, whether it’s a habit or a routine, or it’s the business we run, we have systems for how things get done. And those systems give certain results. Many times, better results – especially
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With the health care debate raging in the House and Senate, some Swampland blog posters at Time.com have linked these tough decisions to the classic game theory problem called the Prisoner’s Dilemma. It’s an interesting read about how complex problems can be boiled to a mathematical understanding… You can read the thread at the Time.com
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I ran across these blog posts about how the Motion Picture Academy did their voting for the Oscars, and I thought they were interesting enough to forward along. (By the way, thanks to Nikki Love for bringing these to my attention…) Unlike most American elections we’re used to, the Oscars used an “instant runoff” procedure
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