Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing | Video on TED.com

Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing | Video on TED.com: "Physics and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton's second law, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding."

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Robert Lanza, M.D.: Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn't Set in Stone

Robert Lanza, M.D.: Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn't Set in Stone: "Recent discoveries require us to rethink our understanding of history. 'The histories of the universe,' said renowned physicist Stephen Hawking 'depend on what is being measured, contrary to the usual idea that the universe has an objective observer-independent history.'"

Friday, August 6, 2010

Gender-bias impacts women physicists

http://www.physorg.com/news200071193.html


While some might argue that the lack of women in physics is down to personal choice or perhaps even biological determinism, Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA instead claims it could be due to small, unconscious biases in the evaluation of female physicists that can add up to have a significant impact on their careers.