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268. Video of the day: Sean Carroll at Google

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is talking about dark energy and dark matter:

Wow, not bad, I am glad to see that Googlers get more interest in science (so that the way PageRank treats science papers will be finally improved to the point where googling a research paper becomes useful :-) )

Via Cosmic Variance.

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Comment by Michael
2009-02-17 20:02:37

Hi Dmitry,

This is sort of off topic. But after reading your post on the kindle 2, I too am now very interested in purchasing one mainly for the purpose of reading arxiv papers. I was wondering if you could make it a point some time in early March to report on just how effectively mathematical equations translate over to kindle text format. This would be a great service to all of us!

Best,
Michael

 
Comment by Michael
2009-02-17 20:14:59

Hi Dmitry,

Sorry I just finished reading the comment section of your Kindle 2 posting and I guess my last comment was premature. Do you plan on making a decisive ebook reader purchase at some point in the near future? You seem to be very particular about the features in the same way I am thus I am likely to purchase any product that you endorse. Please keep us posted!

Best,
Michael

 
Comment by Dmitry
2009-02-17 21:58:04

Hi Michael,

No, after some thinking I decided not to buy – at least two people confirmed that conversion does not really work well, and that’s the major factor for me.

After Thorsten mentioned iLiad, I got interested but discovered today that the thing does not actually have a very impressive battery life. Some people even report 4.5 hours???? – I mean, what’s the point to use E-ink, my old Palm is still able to work for 4.5 hours :-)

Sorry to disappoint you,
Dmitry.

 
Comment by Michael
2009-02-18 00:14:53

Hi Dmitry,

Thank you very much for the update. How unfortunate. Still it seems like it’s only a matter of time before the perfect ebook reader for physicists gets put out into the market. Until then!

Best,
Michael

 
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