Physics &Science &Video Eugene Fischer | 21 Jul 2010
Inspired by a conversation with a friend, and my growing interest in Erik Verlinde’s entropic construction of gravity, here is a video of Raphael Bousso of UC Berkeley giving a fairly non-technical lecture explaining the holographic principle. Dr. Bousso does a good job of building up to concepts like Planck length and Schwarzschild radius (a [...]
Science &Video Eugene Fischer | 04 Sep 2009
Some clever people have gotten themselves a grant from the National Science foundation to make awesome hand-drawn cartoons of animals to pair with conversational interviews with scientists explaining their research. It’s kind of like if This American Life was a charmingly low budget biology vlog. It’s called Creature Cast, it’s creative commons attribution-noncommercial-share alike, and [...]
Physics Eugene Fischer | 04 Mar 2009
A couple of days ago the NPR call-in program Talk Of The Nation had a segment on innovation in the troubled economy. I only caught the end of it, but I heard a caller who was starting a business to help people save money by adding a nifty addition to their home water heating setup. [...]
