Recent content by Evan Maxwell

For ZapperZ, To answer your questions, yes the APS job search site was the very first I looked at before looking at any other options. I also looked at post docs lists taken from rumor hills and collections specifically geared towards nuclear and high energy post docs. I have also contacted...

I was wondering about who are the best people to ask when you are in a Department of Physics and where are the best places to look online in order to find out about all the available post docs this year for nuclear, high energy, biophysics, medical physics and computational physics? I am in the...

Fair enough, do you think that article I mentioned was just hysteria? I suspected it was at least partly hysteria, particularly since its headline included the words "you should be afraid". But there are tools like IBM Watson that seem to be able to do scientific research and perform the...

There has been a lot of talk on jobs that computers are replacing and there does seem to be reports of computers replacing scientists altogether. There are articles like this: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011/09/robot_invasion_can_computers_replace_scientists_.html...

In all honest, I think some people can handle spending 16 hours or so a day learning a set of subjects for at least a temporary period. But doing it too long and too early in your academic journey can also have the side affect of burning you out entirely on the concept of learning new material...

I definitely have to doubt there is mental illness of any kind here. I think these people are by and large very sane and know what they are doing and feel their religious beliefs justify it. I think that given we acknowledge it here in the US when people use their deeply held religious beliefs...

^^^ There is a disturbing amount of evidence that suicide bombers quite often come from the middle class: http://foreignpolicy.com/2008/01/08/suicide-bombers-warriors-of-the-middle-class/ http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/31/us-syria-usa-bomber-exclusive-idUSKBN0EB0XX20140531...

ZapperZ, I think the sad truth is we live in a world where labels are often absolutely vital. And getting rid of this entirely, at least in the near future, is totally a pipe dream. Sad but true.

It sometimes seems to me that the days of individual physicists single-handedly making discoveries that completely transform science as Einstein, Neils Bohr and Rutherford did are long gone and in our times our academic climate is such that it is often teams and collaborations - which can grow...

I am still not sure how you could have complete inequality without devaluing the skills of those who have spend extra years in school or had years of back breaking job training in order to learn said skill set. I still do not see how the artificial inflation that eliminating wealth gaps would...

^^^ Indeed it isn't. But it is the hard truth. ISIS attracts the kind of people who WANT their education to revolve around madrassas. And furthermore, ISIS has been attracted members from well education, relatively privileged backgrounds from all over the Middle East, Europe and elsewhere...

In my experience mathematica and google's calculator program and even using fortran or similar programs to do quick calculations has made graphic calculators of any kind totally obsolete. With programming being what it is most languages allow you to write codes that can quickly to many...

There was an answer I saw on quora recently that delved into this: https://www.quora.com/In-what-respect-does-general-relativity-leave-open-the-possibility-that-energy-is-not-conserved-across-the-entire-universe I am not sure if maybe it will shed some light on this but it does discuss the...

Reza Alsan, btw, apparently did a 15 minute interview with Graeme Wood, the guy who wrote that guardian article and Aslan reiterated that the point was that, unfortunately, an interpretation of Islam was and is the inspiration for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Oh I am sorry, I missed that, it is just really late here I guess. But this shows that these terror group justifies their actions though nothing else but a belief that they are fighting to serve God and bring about an apocalypse in which God will choose them to rule over the earth. And it does...