Really crazy: One of the early quantum levitation experiments came out of Israel earlier this year. The video and website are worth checking out as well if you’re into this sort of thing.
The Japanese Doing Crazy Things With Quantum Levitation
Category: Current Events
Today in Delhi
New Delhi Weather Forecast: Smoke?
I arrived in India yesterday, and will be here for a few weeks working on an MIT research project. I’m in New Delhi at the moment, and am sad to say the pollution here appears to be pretty bad. There’s not a cloud in the sky, but it’s still not blue. Here’s a shot from my window: I decided to check to forecast to see how this sort of thing is accounted for, and was a bit shocked by the accuracy of weather.com. Today’s forecast – 68 degrees with Smoke: On the upside, the sunrise was spectacular through the haze. I’m slightly optimistic that isn’t isn’t typical, as the 5-day forecast doesn’t show any smoke on the horizon. And when
The Markets, Beautiful Girls, and Iowa
Via Ezra Klein: “John Maynard Keynes famously likened playing the stock market to judging a beauty contest where, rather than choosing the most beautiful girl, you had to choose the girl you thought everyone else would choose as most beautiful. “We devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be,” wrote Keynes. This is, with some minor modifications, true for judging the results in Iowa, too.”
Bullish on Craft Beer
The market just keeps growing. It might be time to start a brewery. And don’t be tricked by impostors such as Blue Moon and Goose Island.
Merry Christmas
From my Mom. Original source unknown.
The Canine Blues
Sorry about the title. It’s bad.
Happy Hanukkah
Shades of Green
TripAdvisor has gone public: Eleven years after it began life above Kosta’s Pizza in Needham, and seven years after it was acquired by Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp. for about $200 million, TripAdvisor is finally gaining a NASDAQ listing of its very own. The company starts trading tomorrow under the symbol TRIP, and it will also be included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. I briefly worked for TripAdvisor one summer when I was an undergraduate. It was a great place to work. One anecdote always stuck with me. I don’t even know if it’s true, but I heard it from at least two people while working at the firm. The CEO, Steve Kaufer, supposedly hates the shade of green
Remembering Kim Jong-Il
From Kim Jong-I’ll Looking at Things: looking at a sweater looking at rice looking at a soft drink looking at an engine looking at coal looking at x-rays looking at cheese