Comments on: Video Physics

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:19:45 +0000

I heard that they were working now… there was a server issue, resulting in broken links, that was resolved, as far as I know. They are not broken now? But just slow? Let me know.

Sorry about this, but I’ve to rely on a different system person to check things, in a very different time zone, so I’ve not a lot of control.

Let me know what you can. Jonathan Shock’s blog led me to believe that it was all fine now…

Cheers,

-cvj

By: curious

curious — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:19:57 +0000

ASTI links are still too slow to be usable. Any word?

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:08:43 +0000

Not a problem!

Cheers,

-cvj

By: Mary Cole

Mary Cole — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:13:23 +0000

In light of your later post - ‘citrus’, I feel rather bad about teasing you about feeling the cold! I didn’t realise that Californian fruit crops are suffering due to the unusual low temperatures.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:17:57 +0000

It looks like the link to the sister site that is hosting the bulk of the media is not working. I don’t know why, as I do not control that computer. I’ll try to get someone to look at it.

Cheers,

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:45:32 +0000

Hi, I heard about this too. I do not know why that happens. They used to work, so I will try to contact the fellow who was maintaining the site. Might take a while.

Thanks!

Best,

-cvj

By: Kishan Yerubandi

Kishan Yerubandi — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:28:17 +0000

Is it just me, or do the links to AVI/MP3 files in the “Online Lectures” section of the ASTI webpage fail to work for everybody?

By: Plato

Plato — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:56:35 +0000

That is amazing Clifford, in regards to the ASTI website. Some similarity in one’s actions of expanding the reaches in “Categorically Not?”

I think this is the greatest thing one can do of them self, is to expand the reaches of those who are world’s apart, yet a “short distance” in the internet world. To provide “opportunities” which most of us would not of had.

While “this science” is held to the “small group” opened to one level (your student blog interactions), it was never meant in my view to be held to the “smaller circles.” Sure, you create your environments, and you perfect the science in them, but the dissemination of those ideologies needed to be extended into society, for society to grow as well. Allow “ingenuity to grow” as the seeds are planted in other young minds, less privileged monetarily.

To see PI’s hand in here as well, is part of what is good about success, and providing something back to society. A good “mode of operandi.”

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:48:03 +0000

Yes, I think I know some of the photos. Thanks for the reminder! No, it’s not that it is as cold as Durham here in absolute terms, but rather the combination of cold and brightness… also, two weeks after having daytime temperatures in the 80s, a sudden plunge in temperature makes it *seem* very cold in one’s mind. Absolute temperature is not as relevant as the temperature relative to what you’re used to locally, if you see what I mean. Remember those balmy Spring days which break out all of a sudden in the UK? Everybody out in shorts as though they were in the Caribbean? Such days aren’t necessarily that warm in absolute terms, but they do feel like it after months of cooler temperatures, and lots of clouds, every day. Same effect in reverse.

All science topics (and good scientists to teach them) are welcome to help out in ASTI projects.

Thanks!

Best,

-cvj

By: Mary Cole

Mary Cole — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:47:21 +0000

ASTI sounds like a great project and I do hope you get the backing you need to expand the programme to other scientific disciplines. (Any input needed from Crystallographers?!) I really enjoyed the link to the post about Durham. I got quite nostalgic. Are you familiar with Royston Thomas’ wonderful photos of Durham? I do not believe for one second that Southern California is anything like as cold Durham!!