physicsworld.com newswire (Week 28)

physicsworld.com newswire (Week 28)

HEADLINE NEWS

Quote me fairly, I'm a scientist!
Survey indicates that scientists get along with the media better than they
thought
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34979

Fitting food for physics
Social physicists try to understand why national dishes endure
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34975

Method could cut number of vaccinations by half
Scientists devise new strategy to improve efficiency of immunization
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34965

Do cosmic rays get bogged down in the cosmos?
Pierre Auger and HiRes observatories confirm rapid drop-off in number of
ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays reaching Earth
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34956

Nuclear fallout used to spot fake art
New technique identifies unnatural isotopes in post-war forgeries
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34897

Nanotubes get sorted
Surface grabs hold of semiconducting tubes
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34896

Voyager 2 reports from the edge of the solar system
NASA mission confirms that the solar system is “squashed” by interstellar
space
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34895

PHYSICS WORLD BLOG

Social networking for physicists
A great deal of discussion was devoted to building social networking sites
for professionals...
http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/07/social_networking_for_physicis.html

The final outcome
Many physicists in the UK have spent the past six months fuming after a main
funding council announced an £80m shortfall in its budget...
http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/07/the_final_outcome_1.html
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: ABOUT THE GALILEI PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
    ... Why do you think relativity has anything to do with how ... physicists get, or have ever gotten, funding? ... No.  You scientists would select various alternatives that have the ... dense the previous generation of physicists were, ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Are physicists arrogant ?
    ... srp wrote: ... The ones you think are excessively rude are not scientists, ... So-called physicists on the public newsgroups have consistently ... his spare time making a hobby of sparring with commoners, ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: ABOUT THE GALILEI PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
    ... Why do you think relativity has anything to do with how ... physicists get, or have ever gotten, funding? ... You scientists would select various alternatives that have the ... recall ever saying that I feel physicists are *entitled* to taxpayer ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Pluto assassinated
    ... ("Science" said it, so it must be right, and you're just a backwards ... I don't expect my scientists to be shining knights of truth and logic - I know it's humans that fill those jobs and scientists are just as prone to human flaws as everyone else. ... Though yeah, some Physicists don't get their hands all *that* 'dirty', especially Particle Physicists and Astronomers. ... OTOH, they *do* make big-assed gantries to support the Mirrors, and the Buildings for the Particle Accelerators are crazy weird Accurate and Huge. ...
    (rec.arts.anime.misc)
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