Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Mar 07 2010

One critic's feisty defense of Avatar

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Film

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Airtalk had their annual roundup of critics at the Egyptian Theater to comment on the films nominated for the Academy Awards this year. I haven't yet seen Avatar, but I'm a pretty big admirer of James Cameron as a filmmaker. Most of the panel frankly hates Avatar, degrading it as a childish ripoff. This leads …

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Feb 18 2010

This is why I hate NBC

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General

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Skip to 5:10 for maximum rage/time. It's the 7th end, hammer rock, crucial shot for the US. Literally 1 second before the rock makes contact, they cut away to hockey. It's like if they cut away as the basketball was heading for the hoop at the buzzer. God dammit. (US lost, anyway.)

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Feb 15 2010

Derive all the laws of mechanics in one blog post

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Science

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Introduction The most basic law of nature that I know of is about probabilities. If you flip a coin, we say that the probability of getting heads is 1/2. The probability of getting tails is the same. The probability of getting either heads or tails is the sum (1) Something has to happen, so the …

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Jan 22 2010

The north pole is melting. Why aren't we under water?

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Science

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Seemingly every day we hear about the terrifying eroding of the polar ice caps at the north pole. To some it's a sign of the apocalypse, to others a heartbreaking threat to the local ecosystem. To some it's even a trade route opportunity (???). But if that much ice is melting, and global warming causing …

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Jan 08 2010

The more I know, the less I understand

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Science

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Every year I am assigned to teach the "general interest" class in wave matter to non-science majors. I don't mind this assignment, as the material is interesting despite the facile treatment given in the class. We cover general wave phenomena (wave creation, propagation aspects, Doppler shift, bow waves) and then move on to talk in …

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