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Where I worked, in 1980 we had about 1 in 30 women to men engineers. When I left last year, hiring was more like 30/70, or maybe 40/60...

This was in my Facebook feed today. I'd always assumed that they used a big pump for the snorkel, but they are much more creative than...

Yes. What departments are you talking about? Economics?

Unless I'm missing something here, it seems a lot to expect students to be able to approximate the value of sinx near 0. Do they...

This isn't a question about torsion pendulums because it goes well beyond linear physics. The question is roughly, how many times can...

Thank goodness it's got a great zero-zero seat.

OMG, will this guy (EFD) never stop. :nb)

In response to #23: First, some AdS/CFT basics. You have a (conformal) quantum field theory on the AdS boundary. This gives rise to a...

Most entangled states (a better term than "superposition" since that term is basis dependent whereas "entangled state" is not) do not...

I made a couple of updates on this, in case anyone's interested: You can now hide the field-vectors (and all quantities derived from...

Lordy, can you imagine if the "mishap" were that the plane flipped inverted at 1000' and the pilot could not recover it? Deciding to...

Let the memes begin...