Physics
My Guide to all things Richard Feynman
Wikipedia entry – with a list of papers at the bottom. Selected papers of Richard Feynman Feynman related book bit torrents – includes the Feynman lectures on physics 1, 2, 3 – Buy a hard copy because they are great but when traveling soft copy is the way to go. Feynman lectures on computation – hard copy on Amazon – Bittorrent – Of course, we might get useful ideas from studying how the brain works, but we must remember that automobiles do not have legs like cheetahs nor do airplanes flap their wings!
Dons-Russia-Trip
Ulaanbaatar to Tomsk
Ulaanbaatar to Tomsk Tomsk on the map Propain So we went back to the air camp, after getting the passports back, so we could head out to new venues. Were a little late because Marisol ran across an American buy called Darrel who lived in UB. She trotted him by the Post Office Internet parlor, where I was, so we could chat a bit. Turned out he knew Al , the driller guy I had met in Moron. When I got in the van I noticed the propane had run out. I was hoping to make it back to Russia before Read more…
Physics
Video: David Gross: The Coming Revolutions in Theoretical Physics
The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics presents a lecture by Nobel Laureate and Berkeley grad, David Gross, of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He will discuss "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics." The lecture is part of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics Opening Symposium on October 19 and 20.
Physics
Video: Spooky Actions At A Distance?: Oppenheimer Lecture – David Mermin – and Rhetorical Homework Problem Solution
David Mermin is great presenter. Emailed him and tried to get him to grade my solution to the homework problem. He did not want to give away the answer and spoil future talks.
Dons-Russia-Trip
Vladivostok to Ulaanbaatar
Vladivostok to Ulaanbaatar Sat in the van all day the 22nd waiting to get the plates. One time about midday I saw a guy drive up in a van and head toward the front door of The Jing Long, with what looked like a FedEx envelope. This was looking good. Baled out of the van and went into the lobby thinking the best. Nobody around except the receptionist. Asked about FedEx and she shakes her head no. Dejectedly walked back to the Siberian Flyer to wait some more. No other action all the rest of the day. Not good. That Read more…
Top of the World to Vladivostok
Top of the World to Vladivostok Three days before departure date I get this email message that says everything the Visa guy was supposed to do, wasn’t going to happen. He claimed he could get us multiple entry one-year business visas for Russia and would get visas for both of us for Kazakhstan. First no one year multiple entry Russia visas, just a thirty day tourist visa, which I could have easily gotten myself and Marisol needed an invite for Kazakhstan and there wasn’t time enough anymore to get that. So all we would be getting would be two, thirty Read more…
Dons-Russia-Trip
Gettin Started – Shipping the van to Vladivostok
Gettin Started Howdy Buckeroos, Here we go again. Details, details, details. To get going is all about details. You CAN take it with you, in fact if you forget something you have to deal with it for a long time. We took the van and bike over to Long Beach to put them into a hicube container. Thanks Harry for the ride back. We got there the night before I was led to understand we were to load the container. Waited around for something like three hours the next morning and still no move to load. Then they allowed Read more…
Economics
Video: Worst Jobs in History – The dark ages
The presenter examines the worst jobs of the dark ages and selects what he considers to be the worst. After selecting he performs the job to see what it was like. Worst jobs up to 1066. Viewing Notes hard – messy – frightening jobs written history starts with Roman invasions Gold Mining: romans wanted gold – was in south west Wales – was deep underground – was used as a means of punishment – Wales was plundered for healthy people to mine the gold. The gold comes up in veins so you have to chase the vein. Hot in summer and Read more…