What goes on behind the scenes as researchers test and certify balls and bats for use in Major League Baseball? How will nanoparticles, network sensors and adaptive technologies revolutionize many aspects of our lives in products of tomorrow?

Our laboratory moved today, little darlings, and it was quite an endeavor. I smell horrible, I am covered in filth, and I still have a grant to finish tonight. The bright side is that the job is done and I had lots of time to spend with the lab peeps to plot and scheme. I'll tell you more about it soon. In short, though, if I never, ever, ever have to move a lab again it will be too soon.

Readers may be interested in participating in this, from Dave Wessner at Davidson College:

I have decided that this weekend I am a new woman, little darlings. These last 8 months or so I have moved at work and at home from task to task, from person who needed me to person who needed me, and from crisis to crisis without much thought of myself. You might say that this sounds totally selfless, but I assure you that it is totally stupid.

From the Eligibility and Submission Requirements page:
The annual Lane Anderson Award will honour two jury-selected books, adult and young reader, published in the field of science by Canadian-owned publishers, and authored by Canadians. The winner in each category will receive $10,000.

Johan Larson emails a suggestion for a post topic:

How many profs would it take to offer a good, but not necessarily excellent, undergraduate physics degree?

I can give you an empirical answer to this: Six.

I say that because in the course of my undergraduate physics degree at Williams, I took classes from only six different professors. Five-and-a-half, really, because one of those was half of a team-taught course. I had three-and-a-half classes with one professor, and two others for two classes each.

I am not normally a book-review-kind-of-guy. However, in this post I will make an exception. My wife (who clearly knows me very well) bought me this book - Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World (amazon link)

I've spent the last two days discussing the problems with value-added teacher evaluation, and I thought I would turn it over to the readers, since there has been some really good discussion.

First, where does Chad come up with these links? Oh, I am talking about Chad from Uncertain Principles. In his latest links of the day, I found this:

Today has been an interesting day for feminism. It happens to be the 90th anniversary of the passage of the19th Amendment, which gave women in the United State the right to vote.