Gordon's Notes

I read the Economist yesterday. It's like seeing an old friend that's been hitting the sauce hard. When I left her she still had so...

Kmart's low priced jewelry turns out to have a lot of lead in it, even the pieces labeled lead free. It's safe to assume they're...

Epocrates is a must-have product for many physicians. It started out on Palm and moved to Microsoft's PDA platform (whatever they call i...

I used to think that one good feature of the religious right was that they might slow the day we harvest clones for organs. Then came the eu...

Global warming is not a theory in Minnesota, and in the Twin Cities in particular. Last year there was almost no cross country skiing anywhe...

Someone needs to put together a web page of metric/english unit conversion disasters. This was only one of many: Damn Interesting » The Giml...

John Halamka has just launched a personal blog: Life as a Healthcare CIO . Here's his bio: John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Informati...

Recently we read that spammers and other crooks were offering "porn prizes" to people in return for CAPTCHAs interpretation. They&...

I've used the NYT " most emailed " list as a quick way to browse the paper for years. It's long had a spot on my (currentl...

After a series of posts with only a marginal connection to physics, CV has returned with a nice discussion of the Higgs particle: Higgs 101 ...

It's all about the time horizon: Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal I tell my undergraduates: At a t...

The author, Malcolm Nance, was the "Master Instructor and Chief of Training at the US Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Sch...

Zero is not the right answer. As of today, there are at least five men alive who fought for the UK . I suppose the total number across the E...

1700 years BCE, the island of Santorini was home to a bronze age civilization with beautiful murals and architecture. Then Santorini blew. ...

Palm died years ago . Several times since, often as I curse my desolate Tungsten | E2, I've thought about trying a Windows Mobile devic...