The Art of Science
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
THE TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS By George Johnson
George Johnson
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Review: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Georgina Ferry on The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson and the mythical status of breakthroughs in science
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The Tom Ford webcam incident
Styledash (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Filed under: Celebrity Style Apparently, celebrity blogging can be a dangerous business . Just ask George Johnson, a blogger and newspaper editor in Santa Fe. When he discovered that Tom Ford was building a mansion across the street, he did what any good neighbor would do -- put up a webcam . Then last Monday, while he and his wife were asleep in their bedroom, expert cat burglars broke...
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Tom Ford Cam Burglar
Fashionista.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
This just in from the editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican: A blogger, George Johnson, who's also the editor of the Sante Fe Review , was robbed of thousands of dollars in computer and camera equipment . His home office was completely looted while he and his wife slept downstairs. Now you may be asking, what does this have to do with fashion? Well, here's the kicker: At the time of the...
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Science of magic: "Theatrical linking of cause and effect"
IdeaFestival (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Teller is an authority on the history of magic, but in a session I am really looking forward to he will take the stage at IF in September to discuss the science behind it. As science writer George Johnson wrote...
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Is the Monty Hall Problem Harder than Qunatum Mechanis?
EvolutionBlog (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Thanks to David Killoren for directing me to this excerpt from Bloggingheads. Science writers John Horgan and George Johnson spend a few minutes disucssing the Monty Hall problem. Johnson recently reviewed Leonard Mlodinow's book The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives , which contains an explanation of te problem. After Johnson gets frustrated trying to explain...
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Avoiding the Boredom of the Cybernetic Utopia
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
John Horgan and George Johnson discuss the future, the Monty Hall problem, and, yes, the singularity, over at blogginheads tv.
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In Memoriam - Roy Fugate
Spark It Up!!! (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
... to meet at the cemetery by 10:45 a.m. on Monday. Pallbearers will be Jack Clark, Gary Wallace, George Johnson, David White, Gene Ladd and George Hearl. Honorary pallbearers will be Tom Waters, Darrell Salyers, Bobby Jones, Danny Patrick and UPS drivers. The family would like to thank Dr. William Baker and Dr. Ernest Henry for their care of Mr. Fugate, and they also thank Roy's...
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Cream Rises
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
To the Editor: In his review of “The Drunkard’s Walk” (June 8), George Johnson cautions against buying a mutual fund because it has been on a roll or betting on a racehorse with a winning streak. You will fall victim to regression toward the mean. This is a common misapprehension. The reason is that the concept applies to groups — not individuals — and groups are heterogeneous. Some high...
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seeing the light
Cocktail Party Physics (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
... up signs in greeting, pretty much in real time. It just so happens that I've also been reading George Johnson's excellent new book, The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments , this week while recovering from some minor bug. (I swear my body breaks down on a regular basis just to force me to get some sleep.) Chapter 8 describes historical attempts to measure the speed of light, culminating...
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