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i agree with caek

I most definitely agree with caek

and yeah, the idea that we need to aggressively recruit scientists from abroad in the US is definitely linked to depressed wages

I know that a friend who is a lab scientist has had issues with assistants who are from abroad and have science degrees (typically not graduate degrees, though) but have no lab experience and are actually not so great at lab work. They are decent candidates for the job on paper, but really, someone with an associate degree or even vocational training geared toward lab experimentation would probably be better.

Then again, she might just have bad luck and keep getting the assistants who just don't understand that you have to balance the damn centrifuge before turning it on.

nah i'm not talking about international recruitment

get rid of all borders

lol

you would say that, you scab

How is your teaching going, caek? Do you generally like your students or wish them to hell? What about your fellow faculty? Administrators?

i'm missing research more than i expected, and i am continually staggered by the amount of paperwork, government involvement, financial complexity and bureaucracy at private universities in the US compared to public universities in europe. (seriously, lol at any american, politician or otherwise, who cites european governance as some kind of sclerotic basket case.)

but basically on the day to day, i love it!

any more and we'd have to move this thread to 77.

http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20131019_FBC916.png

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble

v good article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8

i love this video!

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/14/gravitational-waves-big-bang-universe-bicep

In about 50 minutes?

i know right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA

i am in a weird-ass software dev workshop and it is passing me by

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CezSYzAS5Ms/TIGsRHpnESI/AAAAAAAACMM/aRj7yQcEyRU/s400/DSC09423.jpg

...wait for it...

my buddy was on the UK experiment that would have gotten this discovery first if the uk govt had not defunded it in order to save £2m

bg's explanation is legit and clear and short

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=843023029056612&set=a.191237650901823.54357.178097115549210&type=1&stream_ref=10

the cosmology big guns on inspect the results on FB

https://www.facebook.com/groups/574544055974988/

motherfucker u been holding out on us

hi

teleportation is the headline

but rly is this Dutch thing gonna be abt information processing and transmission, sounds huge

link?

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/beam-me-up-scientists-say-human-teleportation-is-possible-1.1815010

hmm. odd article. fairly well understood theoretically, looks like a valuable but incremental practical advance.

that's just the spin put on it

Would be interested if you consider this credible, a new model of the Thea collision that incorporates a previous smaller moon into the mix.
http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/when-the-earth-had-two-moons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_of_Parsonstown

i was here today it looks like this '_'

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152245376168772&l=e2f516ca33

posting from fb so im assuming that wont work but anyway

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152245376168772&l=e2f516ca33

i kind of struggled to get through that moon article. it is not crazy but my undersrtanding (not a solar system guy) is that there is a less crazy idea that is the "consensus".

Nautilus seem to have a knack of making ropey premises seem credible, starting to think that is their MO.

not to get all degrasse tyson on your thread but

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core.html

plants, man! crazy stuff

planEts, sry

woah

"We should be grateful for this deep reservoir," says Jacobsen. "If it wasn't there, it would be on the surface of the Earth, and mountain tops would be the only land poking out."

It is a headfuck thinking about where all the water comes from, it seems like there is too much to have been delivered by comets alone.

oh some crazy moon has an ocean under its surface, wait so does our planet.

i was not aware of that! that is cool. the NS article is a bit casual about the difference between "evidence for" and "consistent with", but otherwise seems legit.

is it possible that the molecules in a liquid can remain static

like if u had liquid in a container with no gravity acting on it and heat/pressure was consistent would it still be moving

no the molecules must be moving (goes for solids and gases too)

that's the definition of non-zero temperature

they stop moving by definition at absolute zero, but absolute zero is a theoretical limit and cannot be reached by a liquid

good episode http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r113g

thank you for the martin rees recommendation in some other thread, been enjoying "our cosmic habitat".

it is a great "i want to read one book, 200 pages please" recommendation

martin rees's dad was our family GP when I was a kid -- he looked like the mekon, except tall

sounds like martin rees but tall

come to think of it I was quite small so possibly not that tall

so the difference is that solids will vilbrate but the movement of molecules is constrained within that, like a lattice structure or whatever, so they can only move to a certain extent? whereas in a liquid the molecules will move around independently, interchange positions, etc?

yeah in a solid things are constrained, but still jiggling

in a liquid (absent gravity, boundaries of container, etc.) things can go wherever

thank you that is exactly what i wanted to know

this was inspired by imagining the molecules moving around in an inert, cellared bottle of wine

(im drinking wine rn)