(Every week or so, I post a collection of interesting links at Photon Courier under the above heading. There’s so much interesting stuff this week I thought I’d post it here as well)
Erin O’Connor on California’s universities and their role in the state’s economic debacle.
Climategate: it was an academic disaster waiting to happen. Interesting and contrarian thoughts about the role of peer review.
Richard Fernandez wonders if World War III has already started…without many people even noticing. (via Isegoria)
Solar arbitrage in Germany. (via Maggie’s Farm) It’s hard to believe he will really get away with this, but still pretty funny. See also this related post from Evolving Excellence: Better Call the Waaaahmulance!
AnoukAnge writes about ambition. (One of the great literary works that deals with this subject is Goethe’s Faust…memo to self: a blog post on the treatment of ambition within Faust could be very interesting)
AnoukAnge also has a nice photographic essay on color…including the psychological connotations and cultural-symbolic meanings of various colors.
Speaking of color, this year’s winning images have been chosen for GE’s In Cell Analyzer photography contest. The In Cell system used used by scientists for better understanding disease processes and for drug development; as it happens, it also produces images which are appealing and even beautiful, in a psychedelic sort of way. There’s a nice video, with music, at the bottom of GE’s post about the contest.
One more photography-related link: British industry in the 1950s and 1960s. (via Brian Gongol)
After careful consideration: with reluctance and even with sadness, I have deleted all comments on this thread and turned commenting off.
In future posts, I’m going to be a lot more aggressive about deleting comments that I think are inappropriate.