Browsing Archive: April, 2011

My Ongoing Addiction to Eduction...

Posted by Chris Bird on Friday, April 29, 2011,

In answer to some mocking and hurtful questions regarding my addiction to education, here is the list of courses I audited this term. And I must say that admitting to an education addiction is the first step in recovery :D


  • Integrated Circuit Design and Construction - This is a fourth year undergraduate engineering course, focused on the design and construction of integrated circuits (or microchips in common parlance). I can't really see this ever being useful to me in a practical sense, ...


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The Grandiloquent Dictionary Enters Academia

Posted by Chris Bird on Sunday, April 17, 2011, In : Dictionary 
Some of the more loyal readers of my blog may recall last year that I was interviewed by a graduate student whose thesis topic was on internet based word lists and dictionaries. 

Well this evening I received an e-mail from Anna Matsen letting me know that she has now completed her thesis, which includes information on my own Grandiloquent Dictionary website and transcripts of the interviews I participated in. Having been a graduate student myself and having worked many late nights and long wee...
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Open the Debate!

Posted by on Thursday, April 7, 2011,
I know I will get flame-mail for this comment, but it must be said.

There is only one political party that routinely beat out the NDP, Conservatives, BQ, and Liberals in federal elections. They have never had an elected member of parliament, but they have got a lot of people interested in politics. 

And yet they have been excluded from the national TV leadership debate :(

It is time for Canadians to put pressure on the corporate media and demand the inclusion of all serious political leaders in ...

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A New Discovery at Fermilab

Posted by Chris Bird on Thursday, April 7, 2011, In : Events 
There is a rumor circulating through the particle physics community that this afternoon the Fermilab particle accelerator team is going to announce preliminary results that indicate they may have discovered a new fundamental particle.

The rumors are claiming that the data shows a massive particle which is decaying into light quarks (which are the ones that form all of the protons and neutrons in the Universe), which adds to the excitement. The only particle that theorists have strong motivatio...
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Dr. Christopher S. Bird I am a physicist recently graduated from the University of Victoria, with a doctorate in theoretical physics. I also have training in mathematics, engineering and computer programming.

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