Integrating the Derivative

Memristors? May 4, 2008

Apparently HP Labs has successfully created a device called a “memristor.”  I’ve never heard of such a thing before (so much for that EE degree) but it seems like a fairly important development, what with it being called a fourth basic type of passive circuit element and all.  Anyone know how important this is if the prototype works out?

Happy launchiversary! April 24, 2008

The Hubble Space Telescope has spent 18 years in space as of today. Check out the images they released for the anniversary here.

Periodic Table October 10, 2007

About seven years ago I wrote a table-based webpage displaying the periodic table.  It wasn’t very flashy but it looked pretty good and contained all the usual information like atomic weights and numbers.  I was pretty proud that I had managed to create an HTML periodic table; after all, I had just started learning about HTML!

Now check out this periodic table (which I had nothing to do with, just to make clear) that has pretty much everything you could ever need.

Wow!  The internet has come a long way. 

Via PZ

Interesting series at Cosmic Variance August 1, 2007

Sean Carroll has an interesting series of posts at Cosmic Variance on how a paper gets published in theoretical physics.  Go check out Anatomy of a Paper, parts I, II, and III.