{"id":510,"date":"2008-12-08T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2008-12-08T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T10:53:05","slug":"biweekly-links-for-12082008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-12082008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 12\/08\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/diracseashore.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/28\/the-basic-dichotomy-of-quantum-gravity\/\">The basic dichotomy of quantum gravity \u00c2\u00ab Shores of the Dirac Sea<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Moshe Rozali explaining some of the problems of quantum gravity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/metamodern.com\/2008\/12\/07\/condensed-matter-physics-condensed\/\">Eric Drexler: Condensed-Matter Physics Condensed<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In reading up on metal oxides, spin systems, and computation, I found a wonderful 19-page \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perspective of Frontiers in Modern Condensed Matter Physics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [pdf], published in the AAPPS Bulletin last April by Caltech physicist Nai-Chang Yeh. Its scope ranges from symmetry, Landau, and intellectual history, to topological orders and spin liquids, even touching on solid-phase chemistry and nanofabrication. I think it will reward physics-oriented readers with a taste for the broad knowledge that puts deep knowledge into context.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/fourmilog\/archives\/2008-12\/001089.html\">John Walker: Mortgage Bailout, Roman Style (Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In Book VI of The Annals, Tacitus describes how runaway mortgage lending, combined with government meddling with interest rates and loan terms resulted in a credit crunch and an eventual collapse in real estate prices. All of this happened in A.D. 32 during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. &#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D7XpqeJyECo&#038;eurl=http:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\/en\/home.html\">NORAD Tracks Santa in 2007<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>See also http:\/\/noradsanta.org, the official site for NORAD&#8217;s 2008 tracking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/publications\/apsnews\/200811\/backpage.cfm\">American Physical Society News: The Future of Science<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>An abridgement of my essay &#8220;The Future of Science&#8221; appeared as the back page of the American Physical Society&#8217;s November newsletter.  The abridgement is by Jennifer Ouellette.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basic dichotomy of quantum gravity \u00c2\u00ab Shores of the Dirac Sea Moshe Rozali explaining some of the problems of quantum gravity. Eric Drexler: Condensed-Matter Physics Condensed &#8220;In reading up on metal oxides, spin systems, and computation, I found a wonderful 19-page \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perspective of Frontiers in Modern Condensed Matter Physics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [pdf], published in the AAPPS&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-12082008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 12\/08\/2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}