Ramblings about soccer, bicycling, and living
Contrary to popular belief, science has clues that 16 year old boys have humanistic traits when it comes to dating and sex. The NY Time has a blog entry about the motivation behind relationship for boys. Interesting read, that seems to indicate some level of maturity beyond the sterotypical teenage model.
Now if my wife can only see those traits in me…
The Soccer Silicon Valley Blog site has already shown two videos over ten minutes each featuring the new ‘Quakes. Now that the team is in San Jose, these interviews and clips are a great example of the low in budget but high in interest material that the major press does not do around here for soccer. The interviews have already been so much more in depth than anything the networks do.
I can’t wait until the centerlinesoccer.com site is officially alive so we can see more of this stuff.
This is a fun site, where you can create your own Brazilian soccer identity. Have fun with this, making names for your favorite celebs…
This article in SCIAM is a review of some research on personal happines.
I can say that I have felt the bottom of the emotional U shaped curve in my mid forties, and seen it in some friends.
It is encouraging to read that the trend I now feel toward happiness can be expected to continue into my old age (health cooperating, of course.)
The story is out that David Beckham has the greatest carbon footprint of any person in history.
Of course, I expect that means any private person. I bet there is some politician or military guy flying around with a footprint as big…
News flash, the Galaxy have traded for Carlos Ruiz.
I can’t wait for the Galaxatives to come to town again so we can “cheer” his every dive, and get rowdy at his every elbow throw.
SA has an article on fuels for jets. It seems the US Air Force spends 80% of its budget on fuel. And this is mostly from foreign sources. So they are looking at cheaper and domestic.
Interesting to see that it is really economics driving this. Hurrah for expensive oil!
This is a funny story from Plenderleith. Kind of makes you wonder what he took the night before to have this amnesia thing going on.
By the way, Sherie did ok the Xmas gift of my dreams: the season tickets to the new ‘Quakes. Last night my personal ticket man Andrew called and we arranged the seating. STOKED!!!
Yes, its true: the world is beautiful, and we can understand the beauty (which makes me appreciate it more) because of physics! Calculus nerds celebrate!
See the IHT here for a story about Walter H. G. Lewin at MIT and his mission to get people to love physics…
And because of the internet, especially YouTube, Lewin is pretty darn famous.
I guess I am always excited when some one starts to see the beauty in the math behind the phenomenon.
The Chron today ran a story on Greg Palast. In my opinion, the real problem with the news today is that it reports what it is fed, not what if uncovers.
From the Chron story:
How are the masses to be informed about all the real stories from sources other than big gov or big biz? That is Palast mission. See him here.
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