Category Archives: sciences

education is for whom?

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 December 06 by Anton

Is education a public good? Does someone else’s learning algebra or Shakespeare make you better off? Well, there are network externalities — in reading this you benefit not only from my learning but from that of anyone from whom I’ve … Continue reading →

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let’s get Physical

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 December 06 by Anton

A few months ago, a grad student at MIT asked permission to use my illustration of a diamond crystal in an article for Physics World. I got the December issue in today’s mail. Wow — my modest doodle (re-rendered, for … Continue reading →

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wacky microgravity tricks

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 November 30 by Anton

Does this really work?

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refractin’ back atcha

Posted on Friday, 2005 November 25 by Anton

A few of my Povray scenes include objects with negative indices of refraction; I’ve said of this one that three-quarters of it cannot exist in the real world. Now I read in The Economist that, because a negative-refractive slab could … Continue reading →

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