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Jacks of Science Blogging Experiment Failure
Jacks of Science is a bit of an experiment. I hypothesized that the site would become a flourishing group science blog as far back as 2006. To observe this desired blog state I devised a simple...
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Sylvester Gates and The One Ring To Rule Them All
What a pleasure it was to witness Sylvester Gates‘ gentlemanly afro today. Check out his 53 page CV here [pdf]. The famed physicist and Elegant Universe TV star gave a talk to the students of Notre...
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White Stuff and Black Stuff That People Like
People who read books are suckers. Why put yours eyes through hours of tortuous labour when you can trade the horrible noise pollution of the city for a beautifully read audiobook? My latest audatory...
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Physics Classroom of the 21st Century
I’m basically the worst science blogger! I went to a week of great lectures at the Science in the 21st Century conference last month and Jacks of Science has been in complete silence for weeks. How...
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Sir Roger Penrose Gives Me Inspiration To Calculate
I heard Sir Roger Penrose give a talk at the Perimeter Institute, Grand Opening 4 years ago. Finally, just last week, the esteemed Oxford physicist and I were re-united at last. Free tickets sold out...
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The Merits of a Formula Sheet
Click the thumbnail above to catch a glimpse of a single-sided slice of beauty. I cranked it out for my condensed matter physics final tomorrow morning. Arguably a waste of potential...
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Summer of Fast Fluid and Gas Simulation
Step is a 2D open-source physics simulator that was recently added to the KDE Education project. Vladimir, the original developer and former Google Summer of Code student, posted up a few ideas to...
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Building a Fluid One Chunk At A Time
I went to the Sharcnet GPU and Cell Computing Symposium at my university last week. One of the keynote speakers, Dr. Paul Woodward, pretty much blew my weak and feeble mind. He used Roadrunner, a.k.a....
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Fluid Integration into the Step GUI
It’s about time I popped this bubble of silence. I’ve been working hard on two programming projects this summer, namely my Google Summer of Code project and a fancy upgrade to some molecular dynamics...
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Three Aspects of a Great Fluid Simulation
GSOC has finally come to a close. It seems like yesterday when I was blogging on here, young and foolish about the complexity of my project. What you see above are my modest results. Pretty as it...
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