<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288</id><updated>2011-10-26T10:09:44.756+02:00</updated><category term='Politique'/><category term='Musique'/><category term='Distraction'/><category term='Quotes'/><category term='La vie'/><category term='Mathématiques'/><category term='Today&apos;s ...'/><category term='Economie'/><category term='Général'/><category term='Physique'/><category term='Vacances'/><category term='Biochimie'/><title type='text'>conscious and curious</title><subtitle type='html'>Petit blog d'un étudiant en physique, destiné surtout à ses camarades de classe.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>89</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6963900563047722542</id><published>2009-08-29T13:55:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-29T14:01:01.583+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>New Blog</title><content type='html'>Due to some non-trivial changes in my life and studies, this blog is now officially closed.&lt;br /&gt;My new blog is called &lt;a href="http://www.uffizio.ch/"&gt;L' Uffizio&lt;/a&gt; and it will mainly contain stories about experiences during my exchange year in Florence.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6963900563047722542?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6963900563047722542/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6963900563047722542' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6963900563047722542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6963900563047722542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-blog.html' title='New Blog'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-618859763433297452</id><published>2009-07-06T17:28:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T17:32:54.932+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politique'/><title type='text'>Moscow, the Cold War and Nukes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?hp"&gt;Obama is in Moscow negotiating a nuclear deal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?pagewanted=1&amp;amp;hp"&gt;Ex-Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara died&lt;/a&gt; and the NY Times has &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?pagewanted=2&amp;amp;hp"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; to say about the missile crisis:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the height of the missile crisis, on Oct. 27, 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that Cuba be invaded within 36 hours. As the secret White House taping system installed by Kennedy recorded his words, Mr. McNamara laid out the prospects for war. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“The military plan is basically invasion,” he said. “When we attack Cuba, we are going to have to attack with an all-out attack.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He continued, “The Soviet Union may, and, I think, probably will, attack the Turkish missiles.” The United States would then have to attack Soviet ships or bases in the Black Sea, he said. The chances of an uncontrolled escalation were high.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“And I would say that it is damn dangerous,” he said. “Now, I’m not sure we can avoid anything like that if we attack Cuba. But I think we should make every effort to avoid it. And one way to avoid it is to defuse the Turkish missiles before we attack Cuba.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That idea — a secret deal in which Kennedy offered to withdraw his missiles in Turkey if Khrushchev removed his warheads from Cuba — resolved the crisis. “In the end, we lucked out — it was luck that prevented nuclear war,” Mr. McNamara said in “The Fog of War,” 40 years after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-618859763433297452?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/618859763433297452/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=618859763433297452' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/618859763433297452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/618859763433297452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/07/moscow-cold-war-and-nukes.html' title='Moscow, the Cold War and Nukes'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7425033473903119234</id><published>2009-06-29T14:27:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-29T14:32:27.319+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politique'/><title type='text'>Die selbstverständlichste Sache der Welt</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;"Wer sein Kind ausserhalb des engsten Familienkreises betreuen lassen will oder muss, soll sich darauf verlassen können, dass diese Betreuung verbindlich festgelegten Qualitätsanforderungen genügt."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/ejpd/de/home/dokumentation/mi/2009/2009-06-05.html"&gt;Medienmitteilung des EJPD vom 05. Juni 09&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Man glaubt zu träumen, liest man die zur Vernehmlassung ausgeschriebene Verordnung «über die ausserfamiliäre Betreuung von Kindern». Auf 28 Seiten und in 79 Paragrafen wird die selbstverständlichste Sache der Welt künftig den Behörden unterworfen. Wer also Kinder hüten will, muss sich scharfe Verbote, Kontrollen, Bewilligungen gefallen lassen."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/hintergrund/kolumnen/kolumne_kappeler_beat/kappeler_beat_kolumne/anmassender_blick_des_staates_in_die_kinderstuben_der_nation_1.2735510.html"&gt;Anmassender Blick in die Kinderstuben der Nation, 14. Juni 09, NZZ-Kolumne von Beat Kappeler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7425033473903119234?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7425033473903119234/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7425033473903119234' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7425033473903119234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7425033473903119234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/06/die-selbstverstandlichste-sache-der.html' title='Die selbstverständlichste Sache der Welt'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8289052485502876171</id><published>2009-06-22T00:18:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-22T00:21:10.299+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Bubbles</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/Sj6yJyYQaqI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Dn6d9yGUTMk/s1600-h/bubbles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/Sj6yJyYQaqI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Dn6d9yGUTMk/s400/bubbles.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349909288574806690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8289052485502876171?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8289052485502876171/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8289052485502876171' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8289052485502876171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8289052485502876171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/06/bubbles.html' title='Bubbles'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/Sj6yJyYQaqI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Dn6d9yGUTMk/s72-c/bubbles.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2162983281510448828</id><published>2009-06-21T14:01:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T14:04:56.118+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politique'/><title type='text'>Couchepin über einen Staatsstreich in der Schweiz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;" class="interview-question"&gt;Das Problem ist, dass der Bundesrat keiner Kontrolle untersteht. Man kann ihn während vier Jahren nicht abwählen.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="interview-answer"&gt;In einem System des Gleichgewichts sind vier Jahre keine lange Zeit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-weight: bold;" class="interview-question"&gt;In vier Jahren kann man Diktaturen errichten.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="interview-answer"&gt;Nicht in der Schweiz. Ich habe mit einem Freund einmal darüber diskutiert, wie man in der Schweiz einen Staatsstreich durchführen könnte. Indem man den Bundesrat entführt? Das merken die Leute doch erst, wenn sie zwei Monate keinen Bundesrat am Fernsehen mehr gesehen haben! Indem man die Nationalbank übernimmt? Aber wo? In Zürich, in Bern? Indem man die Armeeführung an sich reisst? Dann ist die Hälfte der Soldaten krank oder kommt sonst nicht. Ein Putsch in Bern? Da lachen die Leute in Zürich doch nur!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-weight: bold;" class="interview-question"&gt;Wenn Sie auf Ihre Karriere zurückblicken: Worauf sind Sie am meisten stolz?&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="interview-answer"&gt;Dass ich nie meine Interessen über jene des Landes gestellt habe. Ich wollte als Politiker nie populär werden. Das ist mir gut gelungen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/startseite/wir_sind_eben_keine_franzosen_1.2781159.html"&gt;"Wir sind eben keine Franzosen", NZZ vom 21. Juni 09&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2162983281510448828?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2162983281510448828/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2162983281510448828' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2162983281510448828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2162983281510448828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/06/couchepin-uber-einen-staatsstreich-in.html' title='Couchepin über einen Staatsstreich in der Schweiz'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2113985493616606853</id><published>2009-06-21T13:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T14:00:32.100+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politique'/><title type='text'>The Obama effect ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;“If Tehran’s hardliners are incapable of making nice with an American president named Barack Hussein Obama who preaches mutual respect and wishes them a happy Nowruz, it’s pretty obvious the problem is in Tehran, not Washington,” Mr. Sadjadpour said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/weekinreview/21cooper.html?hp"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/weekinreview/21cooper.html?hp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2113985493616606853?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2113985493616606853/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2113985493616606853' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2113985493616606853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2113985493616606853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-effect.html' title='The Obama effect ?'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2386183718595051603</id><published>2009-06-20T14:09:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-20T14:26:38.549+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Versunken</title><content type='html'>Ein im Januar vor der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonien"&gt;patagonischen&lt;/a&gt; Küste gesunkenes Schiff mit unter anderem &lt;a href="http://www25.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=9+tons+of+gold+to+chf"&gt;9 Tonnen Gold und Silber&lt;/a&gt; an Bord ist anscheinend gefunden worden.&lt;br /&gt;Nach den &lt;a href="http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/06/aufgeflogen.html"&gt;beiden reichen Japanern&lt;/a&gt; an der italienisch-schweizerischen Grenze schon wieder eine abenteuerliche Geschichte, in der es um viel Geld geht.&lt;br /&gt;Die &lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/panorama/wrack_von_goldschiff_im_suedatlantik_gefunden_1.2777333.html"&gt;NZZ schreibt darüber&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Am 17. Januar war die «Polar Mist» samt ihrer wertvollen Fracht vor der Küste der patagonischen Provinz Santa Cruz in Seenot geraten. Die Besatzung gab das Schiff auf und wurde von der argentinischen Wasserschutzpolizei gerettet.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Anschliessend wurde das «Geisterschiff» angeblich von einem chilenischen Schlepper auf den Haken genommen. Beim Abschleppen sei es dann plötzlich gesunken. Es gibt Gerüchte, dass die kostbare Fracht zuvor vom Schiff geholt worden sei. Der Untergang sei absichtlich ausgelöst worden, um den Diebstahl zu vertuschen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2386183718595051603?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2386183718595051603/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2386183718595051603' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2386183718595051603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2386183718595051603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/06/versunken.html' title='Versunken'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8095998656127156804</id><published>2009-06-15T22:12:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-20T14:08:50.288+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economie'/><title type='text'>Aufgeflogen</title><content type='html'>Zwischen Italien und der Schweiz wurden am 3. Juni zwei ca. 50-jährige Japaner mit 134 Milliarden Dollar erwischt. Das Geld (in Form von US-Staatsanleihen und sogenannter Kennedy-Bonds) scheint zumindest teilweise echt zu sein. Was hatten die wohl im Sinn?&lt;br /&gt;Wenn da so mit der grossen Kelle angerichtet wird darf man vermuten dass nicht nur Privatpersonen dahinter stehen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mehr dazu in der &lt;a href="http://bazonline.ch/panorama/vermischtes/Finanzpolizei-erwischt-in-Chiasso-Schmuggler-mit-134-Milliarden-Dollar/story/15001779"&gt;Basler Zeitung.&lt;/a&gt; Und das meint &lt;a href="http://www98.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=134+billion"&gt;Wolfram Alpha&lt;/a&gt; zu dieser astronomischen (oder neuerdings ökonomischen) Zahl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update: 20.06.09, Korrektur Schreibfehler&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8095998656127156804?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8095998656127156804/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8095998656127156804' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8095998656127156804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8095998656127156804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/06/aufgeflogen.html' title='Aufgeflogen'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7841240292216687637</id><published>2009-05-24T21:30:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T21:48:18.914+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Maximaltemperatur in Visp</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/ShmiOzANidI/AAAAAAAAAEY/sF0hmyRMXVo/s1600-h/aktuelles_wetter.StationData.temp.PUY.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 96px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/ShmiOzANidI/AAAAAAAAAEY/sF0hmyRMXVo/s200/aktuelles_wetter.StationData.temp.PUY.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339477208317397458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Visp war es heute &lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/panorama/sengende_hitze_in_der_schweiz_1.2616433.html"&gt;laut der NZZ&lt;/a&gt; so warm wie noch nie zuvor im Mai: Das Quecksilber erreichte 33.3 Grad!&lt;br /&gt;Auch in der Region Lausanne war es heute heiss. Als ich am Nachmittag zum fünften Mal innerhalb einer Woche am Strand von Dorigny lag (an dem man mit etwas Konzentration sogar halbwegs für die näher rückenden Examen büffeln kann), zeigte die Station Pully ein Maximum von immerhin über 30 Grad. Die Grafik zeigt den Temperaturverlauf gestern und heute.&lt;br /&gt;Vor solch brutaler Sonnenstrahlung sollte man sich natürlich schützen. Dazu folgendes instruktives Video (via meine Schwester):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xeVuKym_eU0&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xeVuKym_eU0&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7841240292216687637?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7841240292216687637/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7841240292216687637' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7841240292216687637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7841240292216687637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/05/maximaltemperatur-in-visp.html' title='Maximaltemperatur in Visp'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/ShmiOzANidI/AAAAAAAAAEY/sF0hmyRMXVo/s72-c/aktuelles_wetter.StationData.temp.PUY.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4489110156084375570</id><published>2009-05-14T22:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T22:59:42.284+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Biochimie'/><title type='text'>Visualisations en biochimie</title><content type='html'>Même si je n'ai jamais eu l'impression que la chimie biologique était un sujet ennuyeux, j'aurais adoré voir plus d'animations comme &lt;a href="http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revminds/member/drew_berry/"&gt;celle-ci sur le malaria&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Une autre, moins récente mais tout aussi fascinante, s'appelle &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-p-QajenM0"&gt;The Inner Life of a Cell.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Concernant un problème plus banal, mais néanmoins lié: Il y a &lt;a href="http://bcs.whfreeman.com/biochem6/"&gt;un site web qui accompagne le Stryer&lt;/a&gt; qui pourrait être utile pour les révisions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4489110156084375570?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4489110156084375570/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4489110156084375570' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4489110156084375570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4489110156084375570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/04/visualisations-en-biochimie.html' title='Visualisations en biochimie'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8331513448888773801</id><published>2009-05-10T23:03:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T23:06:02.675+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Today&apos;s ...'/><title type='text'>Today's poem by Pablo Neruda</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verbo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voy a arrugar esta palabra,&lt;br /&gt;voy a torcerla ,&lt;br /&gt;sí,&lt;br /&gt;es demasiado lisa,&lt;br /&gt;es como si un gran perro o un gran río&lt;br /&gt;le hubiera repasado lengua o agua&lt;br /&gt;durante muchos años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiero que en la palabra&lt;br /&gt;se vea la aspereza,&lt;br /&gt;la sal ferruginosa&lt;br /&gt;la fuerza desdentada&lt;br /&gt;de la tierra,&lt;br /&gt;la sangre&lt;br /&gt;de los que hablaron y de los que no hablaron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiero ver la sed&lt;br /&gt;adentro de las sílabas:&lt;br /&gt;quiero tocar el fuego&lt;br /&gt;en el sonido:&lt;br /&gt;quiero sentir la oscuridad&lt;br /&gt;del grito.  Quiero&lt;br /&gt;palabras ásperas&lt;br /&gt;como piedras vírgenes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m going to wrinkle this word,&lt;br /&gt;I’m going to twist it,&lt;br /&gt;yes,&lt;br /&gt;it is much too flat&lt;br /&gt;it is as if a great dog or great river&lt;br /&gt;had passed its tongue or water over it&lt;br /&gt;during many years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want that in the word&lt;br /&gt;the roughness is seen&lt;br /&gt;the iron salt&lt;br /&gt;The de-fanged strength&lt;br /&gt;of the land,&lt;br /&gt;the blood&lt;br /&gt;of those who have spoken and those who have not spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to see the thirst&lt;br /&gt;Inside the syllables&lt;br /&gt;I want to touch the fire&lt;br /&gt;in the sound:&lt;br /&gt;I want to feel the darkness&lt;br /&gt;of the cry. I want&lt;br /&gt;words as rough&lt;br /&gt;as virgin rocks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Translated by T.M. Lauth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(from &lt;a href="http://spanishpoems.blogspot.com/search?label=Pablo%20Neruda"&gt;Spanish Poems&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8331513448888773801?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8331513448888773801/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8331513448888773801' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8331513448888773801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8331513448888773801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/05/todays-poem-by-pablo-neruda.html' title='Today&apos;s poem by Pablo Neruda'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2131435105122688989</id><published>2009-05-01T15:28:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T15:35:24.049+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>The problem of black body radiation</title><content type='html'>In a letter to R. W. Wood Planck called his act of discretizing energy “an act of despair” and for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;ten years&lt;/span&gt; he tried to set his idea within the framework of classical physics. In that same letter he wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I knew that the problem (of the equilibrium of matter and radiation) is of fundamental significance for physics; I knew the formula that reproduces the energy distribution in the normal spectrum; a theoretical interpretation had to be found at any cost, no matter how high.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Source: Lecture notes &lt;a href="http://www-dft.ts.infn.it/%7Egozzi/index2.htm"&gt;"Introduction to theoretical physics"&lt;/a&gt; by Ennio Gozzi)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2131435105122688989?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2131435105122688989/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2131435105122688989' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2131435105122688989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2131435105122688989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/05/problem-of-black-body-radiation.html' title='The problem of black body radiation'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7551161418504919159</id><published>2009-04-24T22:00:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T22:32:22.374+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Biochimie'/><title type='text'>Protein power</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.bioc.uzh.ch/plueckthun/"&gt;Andreas Plückthun&lt;/a&gt;, professeur de biochimie à l'université de Zürich, est un des pionniers du protein engineering. Son laboratoire est tellement connu qu'il n'a pas besoin de publier des &lt;a href="http://www.bioc.uzh.ch/plueckthun/index.php?pid=5-0-0"&gt;Open Positions&lt;/a&gt;. Voilà ce que dit son site web:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Usually, we do not specifically advertise our open positions, as there has been a large number of highly qualified applicants, outnumbering the available positions by far and making selection sometimes very difficult.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A propos du protein engineering, il y a un &lt;a href="http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/protein_power/"&gt;article intéressant dans Seed&lt;/a&gt; qui dit entre autre:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“There are a huge number of proteins in nature that do all kinds of marvelous things,” says Baker. “But there’s an even larger set of proteins which nature never explored that could do even more marvelous things.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'adore quand des personnes offrent leur vue personelle sur des choses ou simplement racontent quelques trucs intéressants sur leur vie et donc &lt;a href="http://www.bioc.uzh.ch/plueckthun/pdf/Biotechniques12_2004.pdf"&gt;cet entretien&lt;/a&gt; avec Plückthun m'a beaucoup plu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I was always more interested in making and building things than taking alarm clocks apart to see how they work. I once took a radio apart, but it was still not obvious how it worked! Much like protein crystal structures today.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7551161418504919159?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7551161418504919159/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7551161418504919159' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7551161418504919159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7551161418504919159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/04/protein-power.html' title='Protein power'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2616304151062960521</id><published>2009-04-14T12:19:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T12:27:48.352+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Les joies de la physique</title><content type='html'>Dans la &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt; il y a un &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/science/space/14prof.html?pagewanted=1&amp;8dpc"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; sur &lt;a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/grunsfel.html"&gt;John Grunsfeld&lt;/a&gt;, un astronaute qui a réparé et amélioré le Hubble Space Telescope plusieurs fois.&lt;br /&gt;Un passage qui m'a particulièrement plu:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;One of the attractions of that lifestyle is unique to physicists. When the shuttle passes through a zone in its orbit called the South Atlantic Anomaly, astronauts are exposed to large doses of cosmic rays, high-energy particles from the Sun or distant galaxies, which leave a wake of visible light as they pass through a dark-adapted human eyeball.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In space you can get in touch with your quantum self,” Dr. Grunsfeld said. “I was a human cosmic ray detector.” He said he could identify the different kinds of particles zooming through his eyeball by how bright the flashes were.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2616304151062960521?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2616304151062960521/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2616304151062960521' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2616304151062960521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2616304151062960521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/04/les-joies-de-la-physique.html' title='Les joies de la physique'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7356472774384697021</id><published>2009-04-01T21:05:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-01T21:17:34.443+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Variations de constantes fondamentales</title><content type='html'>Je me demandais depuis longtemps comment on savait que la vitesse de la lumière ou la charge de l'électron étaient des constantes. Eh bien, je ne suis pas le seul à se poser ces questions-là, et évidemment il s'avère que je n'ai pas refléchi assez loin. Il y a d'autres constantes dont une variation aurait des implications profondes sur l'univers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici ce que &lt;a href="http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/eRBJTi/"&gt;Prof. Robert J. Scherrer&lt;/a&gt; de Vanderbilt University en dit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5321"&gt;http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5321&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7356472774384697021?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7356472774384697021/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7356472774384697021' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7356472774384697021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7356472774384697021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/04/variations-de-constantes-fondamentales.html' title='Variations de constantes fondamentales'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-9169475356676860447</id><published>2009-03-29T21:55:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T21:56:54.489+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>Telemarketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_imagearticle1458.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 478px; height: 406px;" src="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_imagearticle1458.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Source: &lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37066"&gt;The Onion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-9169475356676860447?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/9169475356676860447/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=9169475356676860447' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/9169475356676860447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/9169475356676860447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/03/telemarketing.html' title='Telemarketing'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6919972073321554727</id><published>2009-03-28T18:07:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-28T18:16:56.905+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>Onesto e sincero - suite</title><content type='html'>J'avais raconté l'&lt;a href="http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/03/onesto-e-sincero.html"&gt;épisode du telefonista&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparement le fait d'interpréter ma réponse la dernière fois comme "Je n'ai pas le temps" leur permettait de m'appeler encore une fois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lui: ... Pas faire de pub ... enquête ... médias ... Avez-vous ... ?&lt;br /&gt;Moi: Ecoutez, mon temps m'est trop précieux pour faire ça un dimanche matin.&lt;br /&gt;Lui: Pas de problème, bon weekend, au revoir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petit détail: C'était samedi et non pas dimanche. &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Mais cette erreur est compréhensible vu que l'appel m'avait révéillé.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6919972073321554727?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6919972073321554727/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6919972073321554727' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6919972073321554727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6919972073321554727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/03/onesto-e-sincero-suite.html' title='Onesto e sincero - suite'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7379048352864984531</id><published>2009-03-27T21:21:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-27T21:31:39.379+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>Onesto e sincero</title><content type='html'>Cette semaine j'ai reçu un appel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lui: Je ne vous appelle pas pour faire de la pub ou vous vendre quelquechose, non, c'est pour faire une enquête ... institut ... blabla ... médias ... Est-ce que vous avez quelques minutes?&lt;br /&gt;Moi: Je n'ai pas vraiment envie...&lt;br /&gt;Lui: Ah, vous n'avez pas le temps?&lt;br /&gt;Moi: Euhhh... (pause) ... oui!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merci de m'avoir aidé, j'avais oublié la bonne excuse...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7379048352864984531?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7379048352864984531/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7379048352864984531' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7379048352864984531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7379048352864984531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/03/onesto-e-sincero.html' title='Onesto e sincero'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-5885079925413415464</id><published>2009-03-20T21:23:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T21:38:35.571+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Is the Universe a Computer?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/is_the_universe_a_computer.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 283px;" src="http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/is_the_universe_a_computer.PNG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a des gens qui se plaignaient que je ne mettais pas assez souvent à jour ce blog. Comme je n'ai &lt;strike&gt;pas toujours&lt;/strike&gt; presque jamais quelque chose d'int&amp;eacute;ressant à dire, vous devez vous contenter d'un petit gag par ci par là :-)&lt;br /&gt;Celui d'aujourd'hui vient de nouveau de &lt;a href="http://abstrusegoose.com/115"&gt;Abstruse Goose&lt;/a&gt;. Cliquez pour élargir.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-5885079925413415464?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/5885079925413415464/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=5885079925413415464' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5885079925413415464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5885079925413415464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-universe-computer.html' title='Is the Universe a Computer?'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4144396228232645768</id><published>2009-03-06T14:47:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T15:06:09.289+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mathématiques'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Correlation sur xkcd</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/correlation.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 459px; height: 185px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/correlation.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4144396228232645768?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4144396228232645768/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4144396228232645768' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4144396228232645768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4144396228232645768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/03/correlation-sur-xkcd.html' title='Correlation sur xkcd'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2396620246887366058</id><published>2009-02-27T20:40:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-27T20:42:20.921+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>The Origin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1139"&gt;The Origin of the Theses&lt;/a&gt; on PHD Comics.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2396620246887366058?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2396620246887366058/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2396620246887366058' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2396620246887366058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2396620246887366058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/origin.html' title='The Origin'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7786693809864572102</id><published>2009-02-18T22:13:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-18T22:13:48.616+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Schrödingers Miscalculation</title><content type='html'>On &lt;a href="http://abstrusegoose.com/7"&gt;Abstruse Goose&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7786693809864572102?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7786693809864572102/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7786693809864572102' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7786693809864572102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7786693809864572102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/schrodingers-miscalculation.html' title='Schrödingers Miscalculation'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6370368412529096564</id><published>2009-02-17T23:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T23:28:25.437+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Magnétisme</title><content type='html'>Pour ceux qui ont comme moi de la peine à comprendre ce que représentent les champs B et H, peut-être &lt;a href="http://lanoswww.epfl.ch/studinfo/courses/cours_supra/magnetisme/default.htm"&gt;ce rappel que j'ai trouvé dans un cours de supraconductivité&lt;/a&gt; vous aide.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6370368412529096564?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6370368412529096564/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6370368412529096564' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6370368412529096564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6370368412529096564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/magnetisme.html' title='Magnétisme'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7855728031222020359</id><published>2009-02-17T20:33:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T20:48:20.532+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Sites web des cours</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/horaire_ba4.pdf"&gt;Horaire Semestre 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lcvmwww.epfl.ch/~carlen/analyse4/"&gt;Analyse IV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=517"&gt;Physique IV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=287"&gt;Physique numérique II&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lcr.epfl.ch/page37303.html"&gt;Structure de la matière condensée&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lastro.epfl.ch/page15879.html"&gt;Introduction à l'astrophysique&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tcom.epfl.ch/index.php?do=SHOWDETAILS&amp;itemID=4&amp;catID=6&amp;la=en"&gt;Initiation aux sciences des communications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://isic2.epfl.ch/Jahia/site/lcbp/op/edit/pid/62506"&gt;Chimie biologique&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7855728031222020359?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7855728031222020359/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7855728031222020359' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7855728031222020359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7855728031222020359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/sites-web-des-cours.html' title='Sites web des cours'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-5459115991503516708</id><published>2009-02-13T11:48:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T11:51:07.957+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Where the hell is Matt?</title><content type='html'>I only discovered &lt;a href="http://www.wherethehellismatt.com"&gt;Where The Hell Is Matt&lt;/a&gt; today. I'd sure like to get paid to do something like that.&lt;br /&gt;If you have some time I'd recommend &lt;a href="http://wherethehellismatt.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/seattle-washington-not-to-dwell-but.html"&gt;"the Hoax is a Hoax"&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-5459115991503516708?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/5459115991503516708/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=5459115991503516708' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5459115991503516708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5459115991503516708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/where-hell-is-matt.html' title='Where the hell is Matt?'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2928467010461617067</id><published>2009-02-12T18:03:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T18:11:10.856+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Wieder einmal Google</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.google.org/powermeter/howitworks.html"&gt;Google PowerMeter&lt;/a&gt;, bis jetzt ein Prototyp, ist etwas, das ich schon lange wollte. Google schafft es wieder mal, als erstes (bekanntes?) Unternehmen ein geniales (genial einfaches?) Produkt herauszubringen.&lt;br /&gt;Einsparungen (auf dem "monthly bill") sind laut Google im Bereich von 5-15% zu erwarten. Das Konjunkturpaket der Obama-Administration soll eine Verteilung solcher "smart meters" an 40 Millionen U.S.-Haushalte ermöglichen.&lt;br /&gt;Wer noch nicht glaubt, dass Wissen Macht ist...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2928467010461617067?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2928467010461617067/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2928467010461617067' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2928467010461617067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2928467010461617067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/wieder-einmal-google.html' title='Wieder einmal Google'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-766685478161631340</id><published>2009-02-12T12:39:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T12:42:43.307+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economie'/><title type='text'>Ökonomen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.abb.com/cawp/abbzh252/4e94d980fffd6725c125670c003e0fad.aspx"&gt;Joe Hogan&lt;/a&gt;, CEO von ABB, zu den Ökonomen:&lt;br /&gt;"Seit acht Monaten revidieren sie ihre Prognosen nach unten. Sie wissen nicht mehr als wir."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelle: &lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/wirtschaft/aktuell/der_amerikaner_mit_den_schweizer_tugenden_1.1933219.html"&gt;NZZ-Artikel vom 12. Februar 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-766685478161631340?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/766685478161631340/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=766685478161631340' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/766685478161631340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/766685478161631340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/okonomen.html' title='Ökonomen'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3054625595484950840</id><published>2009-02-12T12:13:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T12:19:15.172+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Les satellites autour de la terre</title><content type='html'>Pour ceux qui ont Google Earth, je vous recommande de télécharger &lt;a href="http://adn.agi.com/SatelliteDatabase/SatelliteDatabase.kmz"&gt;SatelliteDatabase.kmz&lt;/a&gt; ici:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://adn.agi.com/SatelliteDatabase/"&gt;http://adn.agi.com/SatelliteDatabase/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est impressionant.&lt;br /&gt;Challenge: Essayez de trouver un satellite géostationnaire et de visualiser son orbite. En tout cas moi, ça me rapelle de l'analyse numérique...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3054625595484950840?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3054625595484950840/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3054625595484950840' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3054625595484950840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3054625595484950840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/02/les-satellites-autour-de-la-terre.html' title='Les satellites autour de la terre'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6694266096688324492</id><published>2009-01-01T20:15:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T20:19:02.738+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Bonne année à tout le monde</title><content type='html'>et bonnes révisions...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SV0WmInJ3QI/AAAAAAAAAEM/cVYqvIAHHn0/s1600-h/poodle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SV0WmInJ3QI/AAAAAAAAAEM/cVYqvIAHHn0/s400/poodle.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286406382005378306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6694266096688324492?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6694266096688324492/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6694266096688324492' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6694266096688324492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6694266096688324492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2009/01/bonne-anne-tout-le-monde.html' title='Bonne année à tout le monde'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SV0WmInJ3QI/AAAAAAAAAEM/cVYqvIAHHn0/s72-c/poodle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7488568291955005572</id><published>2008-12-18T20:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T20:27:36.425+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Musique'/><title type='text'>My Favorite Mistake</title><content type='html'>Eric Clapton with Sheryl Crow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bpYL1ZTSnSA&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bpYL1ZTSnSA&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7488568291955005572?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7488568291955005572/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7488568291955005572' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7488568291955005572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7488568291955005572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-favorite-mistake.html' title='My Favorite Mistake'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4621055742378120620</id><published>2008-12-15T23:22:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T23:23:35.605+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth</title><content type='html'>And once again &lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/scientists_warn_large_earth"&gt;The Onion&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4621055742378120620?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2360509592433752504</id><published>2008-12-10T22:40:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T22:43:03.070+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Musique'/><title type='text'>Change The World</title><content type='html'>Des fois rien me fait plus de plaisir qu'une bonne chanson:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="300" height="110"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/ZKl8AYb_tz/aus=false/"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/ZKl8AYb_tz/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="300" height="110"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/sziIny/music/MiW5bO7V/eric_clapton_change_the_world/"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Change The World - Eric Clapton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2360509592433752504?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2360509592433752504/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2360509592433752504' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2360509592433752504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2360509592433752504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/12/change-world.html' title='Change The World'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2729194474077116017</id><published>2008-12-09T22:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T22:29:45.142+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations"&gt;The Onion&lt;/a&gt; just made me laugh...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[via &lt;a href="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/%7Edistler/blog/"&gt;Musings&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2729194474077116017?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2729194474077116017/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2729194474077116017' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2729194474077116017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2729194474077116017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/12/black-man-given-nations-worst-job.html' title='Black Man Given Nation&apos;s Worst Job'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3716570424213405067</id><published>2008-12-01T22:37:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T23:04:01.072+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Anton Zeilinger</title><content type='html'>I love the interview with this guy. If you're interested in physics, you should know him. If that's not the case, you should find out about him (see links at the end). And anyways, listen to the interview:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o5dNg6pmgPg&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o5dNg6pmgPg&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kIzMZtQ9NwQ&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kIzMZtQ9NwQ&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://quantinger.blogspot.com/"&gt;His blog&lt;/a&gt; (Deutsch)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger"&gt;L'article Wikipedia sur lui&lt;/a&gt; (Français)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.weltwoche.ch/ausgaben/2005-48/artikel-2005-48-nicht-mal-gott-weiss-wie-es-ausgeht.html"&gt;Interview in der Weltwoche&lt;/a&gt; (Deutsch)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[via &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/12/zeilinger_on_physics.php"&gt;Uncertain Principles&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3716570424213405067?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3716570424213405067/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3716570424213405067' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3716570424213405067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3716570424213405067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/12/anton-zeilinger.html' title='Anton Zeilinger'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8527936476866870077</id><published>2008-11-20T22:40:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-20T22:45:27.214+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mathématiques'/><title type='text'>The central limit theorem</title><content type='html'>A funny quote from "A First Course in Probability" by S. Ross on the&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem"&gt; central limit theorem&lt;/a&gt;. It is attributed to Francis Galton (whom I never heard of before):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the 'Law of Frequency of Error'. The Law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of unreason."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8527936476866870077?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8527936476866870077/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8527936476866870077' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8527936476866870077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8527936476866870077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/11/central-limit-theorem.html' title='The central limit theorem'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-1966532042606652444</id><published>2008-11-16T12:08:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T13:41:36.854+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Die Physik eine Seifenoper?</title><content type='html'>La NZZ a un &lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/wissenschaft/die_physik_eine_seifenoper_1.1251620.html"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; sur des résultats étonnants de l'accélérateur Tevatron à Chicago. Bien sûr je ne sais pas ce que signifient ces résultats, mais je trouvais très amusant que 3 blogs que je lis régulièrement sont cités dans l'article et donc je connaissais toute cette histoire avant de l'avoir lue dans la NZZ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/"&gt;Cosmic Variance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ewoit/wordpress/"&gt;Not Even Wrong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dorigo.wordpress.com/"&gt;A Quantum Diaries Survivor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-1966532042606652444?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/1966532042606652444/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=1966532042606652444' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1966532042606652444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1966532042606652444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/11/die-physik-eine-seifenoper.html' title='Die Physik eine Seifenoper?'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4818672964933001678</id><published>2008-11-15T11:38:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T22:54:05.535+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Planètes extrasolaires</title><content type='html'>Jusqu'à présent, plus de 300 planètes extrasolaires ont été découvert (&lt;a href="http://exoplanet.eu/"&gt;exoplanet.eu&lt;/a&gt;). "Fomalhaut b" est la première qui à été découverte dans le spectre visible de la lumière (faudrait-il dire "par photo"?).&lt;br /&gt;Le déplacement sur deux images successives suggère, selon les lois de Kepler, une période de 872 annèes.&lt;br /&gt;Voir &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/fomalhaut.html"&gt;www.nasa.gov&lt;/a&gt; et en particulier &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/289899main_fomalhaut_actual_HI.jpg"&gt;cette image&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour ceux qui ont accès à des journaux scientifiques en ligne (étudiants EPFL: utiliser le client VPN si vous êtes à l'extérieur du réseau EPFL), voilà une &lt;a href="http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=Fomalhaut#a_publi"&gt;liste de publications&lt;/a&gt; pertinentes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update: Plus d'informations sur &lt;a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/13/huge-exoplanet-news-items-pictures/"&gt;Bad Astronomy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4818672964933001678?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4818672964933001678/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4818672964933001678' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4818672964933001678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4818672964933001678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/11/plantes-extrasolaires.html' title='Planètes extrasolaires'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2473974360928331510</id><published>2008-11-04T18:23:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T18:32:33.825+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Musique'/><title type='text'>Cose della vita</title><content type='html'>You may think of Eros Ramazotti and Tina Turner whatever you like, you may belittle me for digging out a song of 1993 and you may not even like the song in itself, but listen closely: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZf_lo0Ux_8"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the only sensible way to play the guitar or keyboard to this song. A pleasure to listen to. Compared to this, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWEhOSHrOzo"&gt;the old version&lt;/a&gt; is just plain boring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Okay, the video is not fantastic. But the Stratocaster screaming at 2:30 more than makes up for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2473974360928331510?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2473974360928331510/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2473974360928331510' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2473974360928331510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2473974360928331510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/11/cose-della-vita.html' title='Cose della vita'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4843234124931626341</id><published>2008-10-29T22:54:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T23:22:47.482+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>Ce nom célèbre...</title><content type='html'>L'année passée ma soeur et moi étaient les seules personnes au nom de famille "Balmer" à l'EPFL. Il s'avère que cette année on est &lt;a href="http://search.epfl.ch/process?lang=en&amp;amp;searchdomain=directory&amp;amp;query=balmer"&gt;six&lt;/a&gt;. Ce qui est particulièrement amusant c'est que ces nouveaux sont deux étudiantes en architecture et un étudiant en physique (comme il se doit!). Dommage qu'une des filles n'a pas voulu venir en physique :-(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Balmer"&gt;Plus&lt;/a&gt; sur le célèbre (selon Grémaud) nom de Balmer. Et &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmer_%28crater%29"&gt;ceci&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;Et je promets que la prochaine fois j'écrirais quelque chose de moins narcissique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4843234124931626341?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4843234124931626341/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4843234124931626341' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4843234124931626341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4843234124931626341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/10/ce-nom-clbre.html' title='Ce nom célèbre...'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6337091855988238215</id><published>2008-10-15T18:27:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T18:31:28.230+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>The Sun</title><content type='html'>I've never understood what makes people excited about counting sunspots and the like, but &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html"&gt;these images&lt;/a&gt; are nothing short of spectacular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[via &lt;a href="http://peculiarvelocity.wordpress.com/"&gt;Peculiar Velocity&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6337091855988238215?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6337091855988238215/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6337091855988238215' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6337091855988238215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6337091855988238215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/10/sun.html' title='The Sun'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4703204395837437011</id><published>2008-10-11T12:51:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-11T14:40:35.740+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Today&apos;s ...'/><title type='text'>Today's English Poem</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(okay, it's really a translation from greek...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many are the wonders&lt;br /&gt;And none is more wondrous than man;&lt;br /&gt;He advances far out into the foamy sea,&lt;br /&gt;In time of the stormy southern wind&lt;br /&gt;Passing under swells that surge up all about him,&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;Only the avoidance of Hades&lt;br /&gt;Will he not procure for himself,&lt;br /&gt;Though he has contrived escapes&lt;br /&gt;From baffling maladies&lt;br /&gt;Having, beyond expectation,&lt;br /&gt;The ability of devising arts to some wise degree&lt;br /&gt;He creeps now toward good and now toward evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sophocles&lt;br /&gt;Antigone, second chorus, 332-336, 361-367&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4703204395837437011?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4703204395837437011/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4703204395837437011' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4703204395837437011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4703204395837437011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/10/todays-english-poem.html' title='Today&apos;s English Poem'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-5944228877043525053</id><published>2008-10-07T17:20:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T17:24:39.377+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Div, grad, curl and all that</title><content type='html'>You may want to have a look at chapter 9 of &lt;a href="http://www.physics.miami.edu/~nearing/mathmethods/"&gt;this online book&lt;/a&gt; (Mathematical Tools for Physics by James Nearing, University of Miami), the explanations are often quite intuitive. You'll also find the solution to at least one of the problems of today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-5944228877043525053?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/5944228877043525053/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=5944228877043525053' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5944228877043525053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5944228877043525053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/10/div-grad-curl-and-all-that.html' title='Div, grad, curl and all that'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6101120009904709181</id><published>2008-10-07T16:46:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T17:09:34.078+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/"&gt;The Nobel Prize in physics&lt;/a&gt; this year goes to three theoretical particle physicists. If someone should want to ask me exactly what they did, here's one thing I can say without hesitation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I don't have any idea. It sounds interesting, but it's way over my head.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe some of us will understand it in a couple of years.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6101120009904709181?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6101120009904709181/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6101120009904709181' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6101120009904709181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6101120009904709181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/10/nobel-prize-in-physics-2008.html' title='The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8446092876875172333</id><published>2008-10-06T22:53:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T16:31:10.631+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Rapports d'échanges</title><content type='html'>De tous les rapports que j'ai lu (et ça fait beaucoup d'epsilons), celui de&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Gaël Nardin et Thimo Sauter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mérite le prix du&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Meilleur rapport d'échange de l'EPFL depuis 1993&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://documents.epfl.ch/groups/r/ra/rapport-echange/public/inde/IndePH03-04THSgn.pdf"&gt;Disponible ici&lt;/a&gt; (il vous faut cependant votre login de l'EPFL, désolé pour le reste du monde!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il est visiblement écrit avec beaucoup de passion et d'humour. Absolument rien n'y manque et rien n'est de trop (bien qu'il fasse 23 pages).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous trouverez d'ailleurs des photos spectaculaires sur &lt;a href="http://www.thallius.com/"&gt;www.thallius.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Est-ce que quelqu'un connait d'autres rapports (de n'importe quelle section ou destination) qui mériteraient des prix similaires?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8446092876875172333?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8446092876875172333/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8446092876875172333' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8446092876875172333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8446092876875172333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/10/rapports-dchanges.html' title='Rapports d&apos;échanges'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4672654144681322972</id><published>2008-10-01T23:16:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T23:18:00.679+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mathématiques'/><title type='text'>Probabilities</title><content type='html'>Why it's important to get the concept of conditional probabilities right:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colchsfc.ac.uk/maths/dna/murder.htm"&gt;http://www.colchsfc.ac.uk/maths/dna/murder.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4672654144681322972?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4672654144681322972/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4672654144681322972' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4672654144681322972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4672654144681322972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/10/probabilities.html' title='Probabilities'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-353255680669850787</id><published>2008-09-29T22:51:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T21:05:35.634+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Musique'/><title type='text'>Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in C# minor</title><content type='html'>Somehow I managed to download &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.de/music/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin/_/Nocturne%2Bin%2BC%2523%2Bminor"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; from the same website.&lt;br /&gt;I can't find the link right now (maybe it's because I've already downloaded it), but if you like classical (ok, romantic) music, go ahead and try to get it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update 1: I tried again and didn't find the download link. Instead you can find the file &lt;a href="http://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/chopin-nocturne-csharpminor.mp3"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-353255680669850787?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/353255680669850787/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=353255680669850787' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/353255680669850787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/353255680669850787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/frdric-chopin-nocturne-in-c-minor.html' title='Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in C# minor'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-449716578388076230</id><published>2008-09-28T23:34:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T23:36:17.852+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vacances'/><title type='text'>Vacances - Image 7</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_4i8eTz_I/AAAAAAAAADQ/l04ZrXa4k10/s1600-h/IMG_5234.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_4i8eTz_I/AAAAAAAAADQ/l04ZrXa4k10/s400/IMG_5234.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251188969769783282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Göteborg. Contrairement à ce qu'on voit ici, c'est une ville pleine de vie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-449716578388076230?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/449716578388076230/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=449716578388076230' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/449716578388076230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/449716578388076230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/vacances-image-7.html' title='Vacances - Image 7'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_4i8eTz_I/AAAAAAAAADQ/l04ZrXa4k10/s72-c/IMG_5234.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8625298821083316320</id><published>2008-09-28T23:30:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T23:32:24.221+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vacances'/><title type='text'>Vacances - Image 6</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_3rIEu-ZI/AAAAAAAAADI/8qj2QpCmyqA/s1600-h/IMG_5187.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_3rIEu-ZI/AAAAAAAAADI/8qj2QpCmyqA/s400/IMG_5187.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251188010811062674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La nuit qui tombe à Karlstad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8625298821083316320?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8625298821083316320/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8625298821083316320' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8625298821083316320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8625298821083316320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/vacances-image-6.html' title='Vacances - Image 6'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_3rIEu-ZI/AAAAAAAAADI/8qj2QpCmyqA/s72-c/IMG_5187.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8849168213362178670</id><published>2008-09-28T23:27:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T23:29:19.442+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vacances'/><title type='text'>Vacances - Image 5</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_23YysrCI/AAAAAAAAADA/1Nj3VfPKRKk/s1600-h/IMG_1806-2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_23YysrCI/AAAAAAAAADA/1Nj3VfPKRKk/s400/IMG_1806-2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251187121945619490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sur le lac léman avec ma nièce.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8849168213362178670?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8849168213362178670/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8849168213362178670' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8849168213362178670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8849168213362178670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/vacances-image-5.html' title='Vacances - Image 5'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SN_23YysrCI/AAAAAAAAADA/1Nj3VfPKRKk/s72-c/IMG_1806-2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-9081584728626193501</id><published>2008-09-23T16:52:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-23T16:55:32.321+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economie'/><title type='text'>the mortage crisis explained - part two</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/09/economic_disasters_and_stupid.php"&gt;Une autre explication&lt;/a&gt; assez amusante sur &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/"&gt;Good Math, Bad Math&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-9081584728626193501?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/9081584728626193501/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=9081584728626193501' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/9081584728626193501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/9081584728626193501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/mortage-crisis-explained-part-two.html' title='the mortage crisis explained - part two'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-812457033007127407</id><published>2008-09-23T16:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-23T16:51:52.857+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vacances'/><title type='text'>Vacances - Image 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQbI2a9ekI/AAAAAAAAAC4/I8iSLHS_kfQ/s1600-h/IMG_5117.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQbI2a9ekI/AAAAAAAAAC4/I8iSLHS_kfQ/s400/IMG_5117.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247849304654969410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Suède ayant dix fois la taille de la Suisse pour à peu près le même nombre d'habitants, on y trouve facilement des endroits calmes, loin de ce qu'on appelle civilisation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-812457033007127407?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/812457033007127407/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=812457033007127407' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/812457033007127407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/812457033007127407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/vacances-image-4.html' title='Vacances - Image 4'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQbI2a9ekI/AAAAAAAAAC4/I8iSLHS_kfQ/s72-c/IMG_5117.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8002724847249358060</id><published>2008-09-23T16:50:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-23T16:51:11.298+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vacances'/><title type='text'>Vacances - Image 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQZmmNLb3I/AAAAAAAAACw/3aYMoY0A9_8/s1600-h/IMG_5536-1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQZmmNLb3I/AAAAAAAAACw/3aYMoY0A9_8/s400/IMG_5536-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247847616675016562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le soleil s'est couché et il fait plutôt froid. Cette plage est près du point le plus sud de la Suède.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8002724847249358060?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8002724847249358060/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8002724847249358060' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8002724847249358060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8002724847249358060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/vacances-image-3.html' title='Vacances - Image 3'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQZmmNLb3I/AAAAAAAAACw/3aYMoY0A9_8/s72-c/IMG_5536-1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3182989180841287796</id><published>2008-09-19T22:51:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T15:13:22.212+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vacances'/><title type='text'>Vacances - Image 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQWISJwT8I/AAAAAAAAACo/MRYAdKapBJg/s1600-h/IMG_5104.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQWISJwT8I/AAAAAAAAACo/MRYAdKapBJg/s400/IMG_5104.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247843797360988098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un lieu de sérénité, vu depuis le canoë.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3182989180841287796?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3182989180841287796/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3182989180841287796' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3182989180841287796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3182989180841287796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/vacances-image-2.html' title='Vacances - Image 2'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQWISJwT8I/AAAAAAAAACo/MRYAdKapBJg/s72-c/IMG_5104.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6860442386627817109</id><published>2008-09-19T22:51:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T22:56:18.209+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vacances'/><title type='text'>Vacances - Image 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQQ5oYUf-I/AAAAAAAAACg/iy9y5RaHfIQ/s1600-h/IMG_5077.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQQ5oYUf-I/AAAAAAAAACg/iy9y5RaHfIQ/s400/IMG_5077.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247838048071483362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un moment tranquille sur un lac près de Torsby.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6860442386627817109?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6860442386627817109/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6860442386627817109' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6860442386627817109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6860442386627817109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/vacances-image-1.html' title='Vacances - Image 1'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SNQQ5oYUf-I/AAAAAAAAACg/iy9y5RaHfIQ/s72-c/IMG_5077.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6173022675110854963</id><published>2008-09-18T13:40:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T13:47:19.195+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Sites web des cours</title><content type='html'>Voilà les liens sur les sites web des cours. A ma connaissance il n'y en a pas plus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lcvmwww.epfl.ch/~carlen/analyse3/"&gt;Analyse III&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://itp.epfl.ch/page45581.html"&gt;Mécanique analytique&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=517"&gt;Physique III-IV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=287"&gt;Physique numérique I-II&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=4131"&gt;Initiation à l'électronique&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/horaire_ba3.pdf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horaire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6173022675110854963?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6173022675110854963/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6173022675110854963' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6173022675110854963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6173022675110854963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/sites-web-des-cours.html' title='Sites web des cours'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-1799348492347034463</id><published>2008-09-16T20:00:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T20:10:12.868+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>spotlighting exceptional research</title><content type='html'>La "American Physical Society" a créé un site web qui contient des commentaires au sujet d'articles de recherche recemment publiés, avec le but de les expliquer à des gens moins compétents dans ces domaines très spécialisées.&lt;br /&gt;Une excellente idée - je pense que le site pourrait devenir intéressant.&lt;br /&gt;Voilà le lien: &lt;a href="http://physics.aps.org/"&gt;http://physics.aps.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon début de semestre à tous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[&lt;a href="http://backreaction.blogspot.com/"&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-1799348492347034463?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/1799348492347034463/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=1799348492347034463' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1799348492347034463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1799348492347034463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/spotlighting-exceptional-research.html' title='spotlighting exceptional research'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2559673933511625398</id><published>2008-09-15T16:56:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T17:04:02.067+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economie'/><title type='text'>The mortgage crisis explained</title><content type='html'>Some of you may have been, like me, wondering what exactly is going on in the financial markets (especially in the US).&lt;br /&gt;Well, one part is the mortgage crisis, and with the help of some four-letter-words, &lt;a href="http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&amp;skipauth=true&amp;pli=1"&gt;this presentation&lt;/a&gt; sums it up quite nicely.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2559673933511625398?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2559673933511625398/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2559673933511625398' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2559673933511625398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2559673933511625398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/mortgage-crisis-explained.html' title='The mortgage crisis explained'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3314006143980593858</id><published>2008-09-07T21:43:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T21:56:54.987+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>Quote from my holiday vacation</title><content type='html'>"I like Sweden. If you don't want to talk, you don't talk to anybody. If you want to talk, you can talk to everybody. Yes, I like this country."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;says a man who's grown up in Paris, whose father is from Malta but now lives in southern Spain, who speaks French, English, Arabic (or actually &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language"&gt;Maltese&lt;/a&gt;), Swedish, Italian, and some Spanish and Greek, has British nationality and who made us some wonderful crêpes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greetings from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhague"&gt;Copenhague&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Currently reading &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Families-Survive-Them-Cedar-Books/dp/0749314109"&gt;Families And How To Survive Them&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3314006143980593858?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3314006143980593858/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3314006143980593858' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3314006143980593858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3314006143980593858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/09/quote-from-my-holidays.html' title='Quote from my holiday vacation'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-250178795577002881</id><published>2008-08-20T20:44:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-20T21:22:47.901+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mathématiques'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Free online physics and math textbooks</title><content type='html'>I've been wanting to write this post for a long time: A short list of free physics or math textbooks.&lt;br /&gt;Some may be useful during our studies, others less, but I think it doesn't do any harm to see what's out there.&lt;br /&gt;The next time you don't understand a particular topic during class, maybe there's a better explanation elsewhere, so here you go (in no particular order):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html"&gt;Algebraic Topology&lt;/a&gt; by Allen Hatcher&lt;br /&gt;I would LOVE to study that topic, it looks really beautiful and interesting. Unfortunately, it isn't part of the standard physics curriculum, so it may have to wait. By the way: Two courses given by Professoressa Hess ("Eléments d'homotopie" and "Homologie et cohomologie") are based on this book. Speaks volumes about the quality of the book. Or is it the the other way around?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.motionmountain.com/"&gt;Motion Mountain&lt;/a&gt; by Christoph Schiller&lt;br /&gt;I admit I haven't read through it (it's about 1500 pages) but from what I've seen, it's fascinating and the explanations are often quite good (and original). It won't necessarily cover the things you learn during typical physics courses at EPFL, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.physics.miami.edu/~nearing/mathmethods/"&gt;Mathematical Tools for Physics&lt;/a&gt; by James Nearing&lt;br /&gt;This book is responsible for three quarters of the pleasure I got out of the "Analyse" course this year. I don't know if there's a perfect way to teach calculus, but this book is certainly closer than [&lt;em&gt;if you're a physics student at EPFL, put somebody's name in here&lt;/em&gt;].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cns.gatech.edu/GroupTheory/index.html"&gt;Group Theory&lt;/a&gt; by Predrag Cvítanovíc'&lt;br /&gt;Also looks great, though I haven't really looked at it yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/"&gt;John Baez&lt;/a&gt; has some &lt;a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html"&gt;recommendations for textbooks&lt;/a&gt; (both printed and online) as well as &lt;a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html"&gt;general advice&lt;/a&gt; on learning physics and math.&lt;br /&gt;His &lt;a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week260.html"&gt;This week's find 260&lt;/a&gt; also contains links to free online textbooks.&lt;br /&gt;You should read some of his &lt;a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/FUN.html"&gt;fun stuff&lt;/a&gt; also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html"&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; also links to some free online texts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update 1: Added the link to "Fun Stuff" by John Baez&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-250178795577002881?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/250178795577002881/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=250178795577002881' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/250178795577002881'/><link rel='self' 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type='html'>J'adore ça: Des gens qui parlent de leurs voyages et pourqoui ils les font.&lt;br /&gt;Le rôle du journaliste est juste de noter ce qu'ils disent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/17/travel/20080817_WHY_slideshow_index.html"&gt;The New York Times - Why We Travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-294673413373298783?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/294673413373298783/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=294673413373298783' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='text'>Ode an die Luft</title><content type='html'>von &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda"&gt;Pablo Neruda&lt;/a&gt; (1904-1973)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auf einem&lt;br /&gt;Wege wandernd, &lt;br /&gt;traf ich die Luft, &lt;br /&gt;ich grüßte sie und sprach zu ihr &lt;br /&gt;voll Ehrerbietung: &lt;br /&gt;"Ich freue mich, &lt;br /&gt;daß du einmal &lt;br /&gt;abgelegt hast deine Transparenz, &lt;br /&gt;so können wir miteinander sprechen." &lt;br /&gt;Die Unermüdliche &lt;br /&gt;tanzte, bewegte das Blattwerk, &lt;br /&gt;schüttelte mit ihrem Lachen &lt;br /&gt;von meinen Sohlen den Staub, &lt;br /&gt;und indem sie ihr ganzes &lt;br /&gt;blaues Takelwerk aufspannte, &lt;br /&gt;ihr gläsernes Skelett, &lt;br /&gt;die Augenlide von Zephir, &lt;br /&gt;blieb sie stehen, und, steif &lt;br /&gt;wie ein Mast, hörte sie mich an. &lt;br /&gt;Ich küßte ihren himmlischen &lt;br /&gt;Herrschermantel, &lt;br /&gt;hüllte in ihre Fahne &lt;br /&gt;aus himmelblauer Seide mich ein &lt;br /&gt;und sprach zu ihr: &lt;br /&gt;Regentin oder Kamerad, &lt;br /&gt;Faden, Blütenkrone oder Vogel, &lt;br /&gt;ich weiß nicht, wer du bist, aber &lt;br /&gt;um etwas bitt ich dich, &lt;br /&gt;verkaufe dich nicht.&lt;br /&gt;Das Wasser&lt;br /&gt;hat sich verkauft, &lt;br /&gt;und in den Rohren &lt;br /&gt;in der Wüste &lt;br /&gt;sah ich die Tropfen &lt;br /&gt;versiegen &lt;br /&gt;und die Welt der Armen, &lt;br /&gt;das Volk hinwandern mit seinem Durst &lt;br /&gt;wankend über den Sand. &lt;br /&gt;Ich sah das rationierte Licht &lt;br /&gt;der Nacht, &lt;br /&gt;das prächtige Licht im Haus &lt;br /&gt;der Reichen. &lt;br /&gt;Alles ist Morgenröte in den &lt;br /&gt;neuen hängenden Gärten, &lt;br /&gt;alles ist Dunkelheit &lt;br /&gt;in dem schrecklichen Schatten &lt;br /&gt;der engen Gasse. &lt;br /&gt;Von dorther naht &lt;br /&gt;die Rabenmutter Nacht &lt;br /&gt;mit einem Dolch in &lt;br /&gt;den Eulenaugen, &lt;br /&gt;und ein Schrei, ein Verbrechen, &lt;br /&gt;erhebt sich und erlischt, &lt;br /&gt;vom Dunkel verschlungen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nein, Luft, &lt;br /&gt;verkaufe dich nicht, &lt;br /&gt;auf daß sie dich nicht kanalisieren, &lt;br /&gt;auf daß sie dich nicht in Leitungen zwängen, &lt;br /&gt;auf daß sie dich nicht in Kisten packen &lt;br /&gt;noch zusammenpressen, &lt;br /&gt;auf daß sie dich nicht zu Tabletten verarbeiten &lt;br /&gt;und in eine Flasche tun, &lt;br /&gt;gib acht! &lt;br /&gt;Ruf mich&lt;br /&gt;zu Hilfe, &lt;br /&gt;wenn du mch brauchst, &lt;br /&gt;ich bin der Dichter: Sohn &lt;br /&gt;armer Leute, Vater, Onkel, &lt;br /&gt;Vetter, leiblicher Bruder &lt;br /&gt;und Schwager &lt;br /&gt;der Armen, aller, &lt;br /&gt;meines Landes und der andern Länder, &lt;br /&gt;der Armen, die am Ufer des Flusses leben, &lt;br /&gt;und derer, die in den Höhen &lt;br /&gt;der steilabfallenden Cordillere &lt;br /&gt;Steine klopfen, &lt;br /&gt;Bretter nageln, &lt;br /&gt;Kleider nähen, &lt;br /&gt;Holz zerkleinern, &lt;br /&gt;Erde zermahlen, &lt;br /&gt;und darum &lt;br /&gt;will ich, daß sie atmen, &lt;br /&gt;du bist das einzige, was sie haben, &lt;br /&gt;darum bist du &lt;br /&gt;transparent, &lt;br /&gt;damit sie sehen, &lt;br /&gt;was bringen wird der morgige Tag, &lt;br /&gt;darum bist du da, &lt;br /&gt;Luft, &lt;br /&gt;laß dich atmen, &lt;br /&gt;laß dich nicht in Fesseln legen, &lt;br /&gt;traue keinem, &lt;br /&gt;der da in einem Auto naht, &lt;br /&gt;um dich zu untersuchen, &lt;br /&gt;laß dich nicht mit ihnen ein, &lt;br /&gt;lach über sie, &lt;br /&gt;reiß ihnen den Hut vom Kopf, &lt;br /&gt;willige nicht &lt;br /&gt;in ihre Vorschläge ein, &lt;br /&gt;laß uns beide &lt;br /&gt;tanzen rings um die Welt, &lt;br /&gt;des Apfelbaums Blüten &lt;br /&gt;herunterreißen, &lt;br /&gt;in die Fenster steigen, &lt;br /&gt;gemeinsam pfeifen, &lt;br /&gt;Melodien &lt;br /&gt;pfeifen &lt;br /&gt;von gestern und morgen, &lt;br /&gt;es wird kommen der Tag, &lt;br /&gt;an dem wir befreien werden &lt;br /&gt;Licht und Wasser &lt;br /&gt;die Erde, den Menschen, &lt;br /&gt;und alles wird dasein &lt;br /&gt;für alle, wie du es bist. &lt;br /&gt;Darum, paß auf, &lt;br /&gt;zu dieser Stunde! &lt;br /&gt;Und komm mit mir, &lt;br /&gt;wir haben noch viel &lt;br /&gt;zu tanzen und zu singen, &lt;br /&gt;gehen wir &lt;br /&gt;den Saum des Meeres entlang, &lt;br /&gt;hinauf in die Bergeshöhen, &lt;br /&gt;laß uns dort &lt;br /&gt;hingehn, wo der neue Frühling &lt;br /&gt;in Blüte steht, &lt;br /&gt;und mit einem Windstoß &lt;br /&gt;und Gesang &lt;br /&gt;laß uns die Blumen verteilen, &lt;br /&gt;den Duft, die Früchte, &lt;br /&gt;die Luft &lt;br /&gt;von morgen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3840557289019352879?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6897826294812525967</id><published>2008-07-01T17:30:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T17:32:09.424+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>J'aime les orages...</title><content type='html'>je viens d'en vivre un qui était si près que j'ai senti le tonnerre secouer ma chemise!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6897826294812525967?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6897826294812525967/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6897826294812525967' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6897826294812525967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6897826294812525967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/07/jaime-les-orages.html' title='J&apos;aime les orages...'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-1218364766131616771</id><published>2008-06-27T17:14:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-27T17:39:28.515+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>What a Wonderful World</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vnRqYMTpXHc&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vnRqYMTpXHc&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tout le monde n'a pas fini les examens, mais je voulais quand-même vous souhaiter bonnes vacances et un magnifique été avec cette chanson qui personnellement m'importe beaucoup.&lt;br /&gt;Pour ceux qui ne comprennent pas encore bien l'anglais, ça vaut la peine de la traduire (voir &lt;a href="http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/"&gt;WordReference.com&lt;/a&gt;). Et apart ça, la mimique de Louis Armstrong est juste extraordinaire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What a Wonderful World&lt;/b&gt; Lyrics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Words and Music by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see trees of green, red roses too&lt;br /&gt;I see them bloom for me and you&lt;br /&gt;And I think to myself, what a wonderful world&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see skies of blue and clouds of white&lt;br /&gt;The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night&lt;br /&gt;And I think to myself, what a wonderful world&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky&lt;br /&gt;Are also on the faces of people going by&lt;br /&gt;I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"&lt;br /&gt;They're really saying "I love you"&lt;/p&gt;I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow&lt;br /&gt;They'll learn much more than I'll ever know&lt;br /&gt;And I think to myself, what a wonderful world&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-1218364766131616771?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/1218364766131616771/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=1218364766131616771' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1218364766131616771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1218364766131616771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-wonderful-world.html' title='What a Wonderful World'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-1679596311356847551</id><published>2008-06-25T12:53:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T15:14:09.760+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economie'/><title type='text'>Bonnes nouvelles pour la recherche</title><content type='html'>Deux articles dans la &lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/"&gt;NZZ&lt;/a&gt; d'aujourd'hui:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/eth_und_ibm_arbeiten_in_der_nanotechnologie_zusammen_1.768710.html"&gt;Collaboration de l'ETHZ et IBM (Zurich Research Laboratory) dans le domaine de la nanotechnologie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;et&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/1188_millionen_franken_fuer_eth-bauten__1.768675.html"&gt;118,8 mio de francs pour des bâtiments du domaine des EPF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(entre autre le bâtiment de physique de l'EPFL)&lt;br /&gt;Bien que ça ne nous concerne pas tellement en ce moment, c'est bien de l'entendre.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-1679596311356847551?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/1679596311356847551/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=1679596311356847551' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1679596311356847551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1679596311356847551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/06/bonnes-nouvelles-pour-la-recherche.html' title='Bonnes nouvelles pour la recherche'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7714004300993865617</id><published>2008-06-22T11:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T11:47:18.158+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mathématiques'/><title type='text'>Concernant les mathématiques</title><content type='html'>"To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to teach backwards.” - E. Kim Nebeuts&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7714004300993865617?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7714004300993865617/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7714004300993865617' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7714004300993865617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7714004300993865617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/06/concernant-les-mathmatiques.html' title='Concernant les mathématiques'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3790958456516325903</id><published>2008-06-22T00:09:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T11:44:37.537+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Le début de l'été à Ouchy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SF4dU507W_I/AAAAAAAAACY/I7zYUgOSfq4/s1600-h/IMG_1610-1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SF4dU507W_I/AAAAAAAAACY/I7zYUgOSfq4/s400/IMG_1610-1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214637663499017202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires." - Seneca&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3790958456516325903?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3790958456516325903/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3790958456516325903' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3790958456516325903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3790958456516325903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/06/le-dbut-de-lt-ouchy.html' title='Le début de l&apos;été à Ouchy'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SF4dU507W_I/AAAAAAAAACY/I7zYUgOSfq4/s72-c/IMG_1610-1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7137666854426697852</id><published>2008-06-16T17:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T17:06:23.553+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Today&apos;s ...'/><title type='text'>Today's English Quote</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction." – Tolstoy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7137666854426697852?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7137666854426697852/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7137666854426697852' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7137666854426697852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7137666854426697852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/06/todays-english-quote.html' title='Today&apos;s English Quote'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3537105689678964340</id><published>2008-06-09T20:28:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T20:55:05.090+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Le prix de l'essence</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/09/business/20080609_GAS_GRAPHIC.html"&gt;Ce graphique&lt;/a&gt; est très intéressant à voir.&lt;br /&gt;Ce qui m'étonnait n'est pas les régions où les salaires sont élevés, mais plutôt la taille des régions où ils ne le sont pas...&lt;br /&gt;Et, puisque nous sommes étudiants: Est-ce que les universités les plus prestigieuses se concentrent dans les régions à salaires élevés ?&lt;br /&gt;Prenons le &lt;a href="http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php"&gt;USNews.com-Ranking&lt;/a&gt; (qui n'est pas nécessairement fait pour les sciences naturelles, bien entendu):&lt;br /&gt;1. Princeton (NJ)&lt;br /&gt;2. Harvard (MA)&lt;br /&gt;3. Yale (CT)&lt;br /&gt;4. Stanford (CA)&lt;br /&gt;5. Pennsylvania (PA)&lt;br /&gt;5. Caltech (CA)&lt;br /&gt;7. MIT (MA)&lt;br /&gt;8. Duke (NC)&lt;br /&gt;9. Columbia (NY)&lt;br /&gt;9. Chicago (IL)&lt;br /&gt;Réponse pour tous les dix: oui. Le seul cas où on pourrait hésiter est Duke University (et encore, si on regarde la graphique...)&lt;br /&gt;Il reste la question: "which came first, the chicken or the egg?"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3537105689678964340?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3537105689678964340/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3537105689678964340' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3537105689678964340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3537105689678964340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/06/le-prix-de-lessence.html' title='Le prix de l&apos;essence'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6740267076663730149</id><published>2008-05-30T12:30:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-30T12:50:19.408+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>Vivre sans contact avec la civilisation?</title><content type='html'>Un peuple indigène a été découvert au Brésil, près de la frontière avec le Pérou. Voir l'&lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/panorama/gruppe_von_letzten_wilden_in_brasilien_entdeckt_1.746607.html"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; (en allemand, mais il y a des images) dans la "Neue Zürcher Zeitung".&lt;br /&gt;J'ai de la peine à décider si je pense qu'il faudrait les contacter ou non. Est-ce qu'on pourrait vraiment leur apporter quelquechose de mieux?&lt;br /&gt;En tout cas ça m'a rappelé que je me trouve presque au sommet de la pyramide de luxe, richesse et comfort.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6740267076663730149?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6740267076663730149/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6740267076663730149' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6740267076663730149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6740267076663730149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/05/vivre-sans-contact-avec-la-civilisation.html' title='Vivre sans contact avec la civilisation?'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-1287412800291472449</id><published>2008-05-28T23:26:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T23:41:57.941+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mathématiques'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Alors, regardons un peu ce qu'on a</title><content type='html'>Je l'ai déjà montré à certains, pour les autres, si vous aimeriez arriver à vous imaginer quelquechose en utilisant les multiplicateurs de Lagrange, voir section 8.12 (dans Multivariable Calculus) de ce livre (il est vraiment bien fait et il y a beaucoup de choses intéressantes):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.physics.miami.edu/%7Enearing/mathmethods/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.physics.miami.edu/~nearing/mathmethods/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-1287412800291472449?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/1287412800291472449/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=1287412800291472449' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1287412800291472449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1287412800291472449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/05/alors-regardons-un-peu-ce-quon.html' title='Alors, regardons un peu ce qu&apos;on a'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-1994900082990845054</id><published>2008-05-28T22:27:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T22:48:18.634+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Le genre de questions qu'on peut se poser</title><content type='html'>Tous les étudiants de physique (et plein d'autres gens) ont reçu ajourd'hui un e-mail de Prof. Mila qui était en fait une invitation à la célebration des 100 ans de la Société Suisse de Physique. Il y avait un lien sur un flyer, mais celui-ci ne fonctionnait malheureusement pas.&lt;br /&gt;J'étais déjà en train d'écrire une réponse contenant le lien (probablement) correcte, et j'ai un peu reflechi à ce problème. De toute manière il me semble qu'il y a deux possibilités:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Personne ne dit jamais rien, et Prof. Mila se rendra peut-être jamais compte de cet erreur. Les gens qui sont vraiment intéréssées pourront de toute façon trouver le flyer sur le site web de la SPS.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Au moins une personne lui répond, et c'est à lui de décider s'il veut encore une fois écrire un e-mail à tout le monde contenant cette fois le lien correcte. S'il ne le fait pas, la situation finale correspond plus ou moins à 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Pour finir, je n'ai pas cliqué sur "envoyer". C'était juste un petit "mishap", ça peut arriver. Who cares anyway? Je ne connais pas le "Klickverhalten" des gens (peut-être que de chercher un lien sur un site web dépasse déjà le "attention span" de certains), mais il me semble que ceux qui veulent absolument y aller trouveront leur chemin sans aide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lesson learned&lt;/span&gt;: Au lieu d'envoyer un deep link comme http://jenesais.pas.com/sicefichier/vatjrs/existerdans5min.pdf, simplement utiliser un lien du genre http://www.cesitemarchetoujours.com. De toute façon, si vous allez sur &lt;a href="http://www.sps.ch/"&gt;le site de la SPS&lt;/a&gt;, il suffit de faire un clic de plus pour voir le flyer...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-1994900082990845054?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/1994900082990845054/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=1994900082990845054' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1994900082990845054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/1994900082990845054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/05/le-genre-de-questions-quon-peut-se.html' title='Le genre de questions qu&apos;on peut se poser'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6283506762046212577</id><published>2008-05-03T22:15:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-03T22:20:34.554+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Today&apos;s ...'/><title type='text'>Today's English Poem 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Dog Has Died&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pablo Neruda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dog has died.&lt;br /&gt;I buried him in the garden&lt;br /&gt;next to a rusted old machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some day I'll join him right there,&lt;br /&gt;but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,&lt;br /&gt;his bad manners and his cold nose,&lt;br /&gt;and I, the materialist, who never believed&lt;br /&gt;in any promised heaven in the sky&lt;br /&gt;for any human being,&lt;br /&gt;I believe in a heaven I'll never enter.&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom&lt;br /&gt;where my dog waits for my arrival&lt;br /&gt;waving his fan-like tail in friendship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ai, I'll not speak of sadness here on earth,&lt;br /&gt;of having lost a companion&lt;br /&gt;who was never servile.&lt;br /&gt;His friendship for me, like that of a porcupine&lt;br /&gt;withholding its authority,&lt;br /&gt;was the friendship of a star, aloof,&lt;br /&gt;with no more intimacy than was called for,&lt;br /&gt;with no exaggerations:&lt;br /&gt;he never climbed all over my clothes&lt;br /&gt;filling me full of his hair or his mange,&lt;br /&gt;he never rubbed up against my knee&lt;br /&gt;like other dogs obsessed with sex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, my dog used to gaze at me,&lt;br /&gt;paying me the attention I need,&lt;br /&gt;the attention required&lt;br /&gt;to make a vain person like me understand&lt;br /&gt;that, being a dog, he was wasting time,&lt;br /&gt;but, with those eyes so much purer than mine,&lt;br /&gt;he'd keep on gazing at me&lt;br /&gt;with a look that reserved for me alone&lt;br /&gt;all his sweet and shaggy life,&lt;br /&gt;always near me, never troubling me,&lt;br /&gt;and asking nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ai, how many times have I envied his tail&lt;br /&gt;as we walked together on the shores of the sea&lt;br /&gt;in the lonely winter of Isla Negra&lt;br /&gt;where the wintering birds filled the sky&lt;br /&gt;and my hairy dog was jumping about&lt;br /&gt;full of the voltage of the sea's movement:&lt;br /&gt;my wandering dog, sniffing away&lt;br /&gt;with his golden tail held high,&lt;br /&gt;face to face with the ocean's spray.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joyful, joyful, joyful,&lt;br /&gt;as only dogs know how to be happy&lt;br /&gt;with only the autonomy&lt;br /&gt;of their shameless spirit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no good-byes for my dog who has died,&lt;br /&gt;and we don't now and never did lie to each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now he's gone and I buried him,&lt;br /&gt;and that's all there is to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6283506762046212577?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6283506762046212577/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6283506762046212577' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6283506762046212577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6283506762046212577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/05/todays-english-poem-2.html' title='Today&apos;s English Poem 2'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7457835168324732171</id><published>2008-04-17T23:54:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T23:59:59.322+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Today&apos;s ...'/><title type='text'>Today's English Poem</title><content type='html'>&lt;div  style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" &gt;Fire and Ice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Robert Frost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some say the world will end in fire,&lt;br /&gt;Some say in ice.&lt;br /&gt;From what I've tasted of desire&lt;br /&gt;I hold with those who favour fire.&lt;br /&gt;But if it had to perish twice,&lt;br /&gt;I think I know enough of hate&lt;br /&gt;To say that for destruction ice&lt;br /&gt;Is also great&lt;br /&gt;And would suffice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7457835168324732171?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7457835168324732171/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7457835168324732171' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7457835168324732171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7457835168324732171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/04/todays-english-poem.html' title='Today&apos;s English Poem'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3563093269103142431</id><published>2008-04-15T23:19:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T21:24:02.976+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Today&apos;s ...'/><title type='text'>Today's English Text</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="sqq"&gt;De temps en temps je trouve quelquechose d'intéressant sur internet qui pourrait aussi interesser d'autre personnes. J'évite en général les sites web en français, donc ça fait une petite lecture en Anglais. J'essaye bien sûr de trouver des textes intéressants d'un point de vue physique, philosophique or whatever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors voilà le texte d'aujourd'hui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/02/guest-post-peter-steinberg.html"&gt;http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/02/guest-post-peter-steinberg.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3563093269103142431?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3563093269103142431/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3563093269103142431' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3563093269103142431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3563093269103142431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/04/todays-english-text.html' title='Today&apos;s English Text'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-6514837916400949682</id><published>2008-04-14T21:24:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T23:15:35.337+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>John A. Wheeler est mort à l'age de 96 ans</title><content type='html'>Un des derniers grands théoriciens, créateur du terme "trou noir", il avait entre autre dirigé la thèse de Feynman, qui disait de Wheeler:&lt;br /&gt;“Some people think Wheeler’s gotten crazy in his later years, but he’s always been crazy.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour en savoir plus voir l'&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html?_r=4&amp;amp;pagewanted=1&amp;amp;sq=Overbye&amp;amp;st=nyt&amp;amp;scp=1&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; dans la New York Times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edit: J'ai constaté qu'il faut un login pour voir les articles de la New York Times après un certain temps. Tant pis, je vais laisser le lien, après tout, la régistration est gratuite.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-6514837916400949682?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/6514837916400949682/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=6514837916400949682' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6514837916400949682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/6514837916400949682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/04/john-wheeler-est-mort-lage-de-96-ans.html' title='John A. Wheeler est mort à l&apos;age de 96 ans'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8964934778635908682</id><published>2008-04-11T21:57:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T10:40:00.227+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La vie'/><title type='text'>Le petit Simeon...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SAHG2PRbXwI/AAAAAAAAACI/DcObiFQHDbI/s1600-h/IMG_1303-2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SAHG2PRbXwI/AAAAAAAAACI/DcObiFQHDbI/s400/IMG_1303-2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188646880822386434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;avec une de ses grandes soeurs (qui était la petite jusqu'à hier, et dont je suis le parrain).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8964934778635908682?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8964934778635908682/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8964934778635908682' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8964934778635908682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8964934778635908682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/04/le-petit-simeon.html' title='Le petit Simeon...'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/SAHG2PRbXwI/AAAAAAAAACI/DcObiFQHDbI/s72-c/IMG_1303-2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4901966913953483010</id><published>2008-04-01T21:24:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T22:19:07.211+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>J'ai loupé mon cours SHS aujourd'hui...</title><content type='html'>... mais je n'ai pas loupé la présentation de &lt;a href="http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA06VZUMOC_astronauts_0.html"&gt;Claude Nicollier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Il a été une source d'inspiration pour moi depuis un moment déjà, mais je l'ai vu la première fois aujourd'hui et je suis impressionné encore plus.&lt;br /&gt;Je trouve incroyable comment des gens comme lui (et les autres astronautes, sans exception)  peuvent avoir une vision aussi claire de leur futur, poursuivre leurs objectifs en s'investissant complètement tout en restant équilibrés et humbles. Chapeau...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Ceux qui me connaissent savent que j'ai quelques expériences dans  le monde du travail dans un domaine intimement lié a ce métier. Et ça ne diminue pas du tout mon respect pour ce que font ces astronautes, au contraire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some inspiring biographies:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/walker-s.html"&gt;Shannon Walker&lt;/a&gt;, also take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_ASCAN_Walker_Interview.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (video of the interview at the bottom)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/marshburn-th.html"&gt;Thomas H. Marshburn&lt;/a&gt;, also &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_ASCAN_Marshburn_Interview.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/satcher-rl.html"&gt;Robert Satcher&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_ASCAN_Satcher_Interview.html"&gt;there&lt;/a&gt; you go&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/musgrave.html"&gt;Story Musgrave&lt;/a&gt;, especially mindblowing; look at hobbies, education, experience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Tant pis pour le cours SHS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4901966913953483010?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4901966913953483010/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4901966913953483010' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4901966913953483010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4901966913953483010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/04/jai-loup-mon-cours-shs-aujourdhui.html' title='J&apos;ai loupé mon cours SHS aujourd&apos;hui...'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-7297061961528368314</id><published>2008-03-30T21:48:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-03-30T22:04:04.541+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>LHC 2008 - Open Day</title><content type='html'>Ne me demandez pas pourquoi c'est que maintenant que je vois ça:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lhc2008.web.cern.ch/LHC2008/index-E.html"&gt;LHC 2008 - Open Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est dimanche le &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6 avril 2008&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;Je pense que ça mérite une visite...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, pour une explication de ce que c'est, le LHC:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html"&gt;http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-7297061961528368314?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/7297061961528368314/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=7297061961528368314' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7297061961528368314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/7297061961528368314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/03/lhc-2008-open-day.html' title='LHC 2008 - Open Day'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3422394466741603883</id><published>2008-03-21T20:14:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T20:18:38.323+01:00</updated><title type='text'>On dirait que c'est Noël</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/R-QJx4cDOXI/AAAAAAAAABs/trwMI6ntt7Y/s1600-h/IMG_7158_sw.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/R-QJx4cDOXI/AAAAAAAAABs/trwMI6ntt7Y/s400/IMG_7158_sw.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180276223951190386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis rentré à &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=visp&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=29.301969,59.765625&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=46.299746,7.881317&amp;amp;spn=0.049811,0.11673&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=13"&gt;Viège&lt;/a&gt; (Visp) aujourd'hui, et je me retrouve en plein hiver: 55 cm de neige.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et d'ailleurs le nouveau &lt;a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week261.html"&gt;TWF&lt;/a&gt; de John Baez est sorti.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3422394466741603883?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3422394466741603883/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3422394466741603883' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3422394466741603883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3422394466741603883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/03/on-dirait-que-cest-nol.html' title='On dirait que c&apos;est Noël'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUDVe0QNV_E/R-QJx4cDOXI/AAAAAAAAABs/trwMI6ntt7Y/s72-c/IMG_7158_sw.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2192116553731965751</id><published>2008-03-20T20:03:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-20T20:09:05.223+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>How to Succeed in This Class</title><content type='html'>Je suis de nouveau tombé sur quelquechose &lt;a href="http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/richman/ph119a_syllabus_fall2007.pdf"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How to Succeed in This Class&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thermal physics is a difficult subject, with many abstact concepts and a fair number of&lt;br /&gt;mathematical tools that may be new to you.&lt;br /&gt;Here are some specific suggestions on how to do well:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  As for most physics classes, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the single most important thing is to do the problem &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sets as well and as carefully as you can&lt;/span&gt;. You have to grapple with thermal physics yourself.&lt;br /&gt;2.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Important note: copying of other people’s homework solutions is strictly not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;allowed. It’s perfectly fine to discuss and argue about homework problems with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;your friends, but you must write them up yourself. Our TAs are on the lookout for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;homeworks that are very similar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.   You should review your old problem sets from time to time to check that you have&lt;br /&gt;assimilated the material.&lt;br /&gt;4.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Remember things.&lt;/span&gt; Many physics students are disinclined to remember important&lt;br /&gt;results, thinking that these can always be derived or looked up whenever necessary.&lt;br /&gt;However, if you remember things, it will greatly facilitate both learning new material&lt;br /&gt;and solving problems: the amount of  “new” material will seem less, because you will&lt;br /&gt;be more familiar with the old material used in the derivations.&lt;br /&gt;5.  Given the difficulty of the subject, it is important to work especially hard to keep up.&lt;br /&gt;In studying my lecture notes or the text, you will generally need to go over the   4&lt;br /&gt;material several times. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Reading the text or lecture notes is not enough. You have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;to actively carry through the derivations and analyses on your own.&lt;/span&gt; Some&lt;br /&gt;students simply try to read the same thing over and over again, and then discover that&lt;br /&gt;they aren’t learning any more by doing so. A better approach is to read through the&lt;br /&gt;material once or twice and then &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;try to derive the results on your own&lt;/span&gt;, referring to&lt;br /&gt;the text only if you are stuck. If you don’t understand a particular aspect of the&lt;br /&gt;analysis, note this down and continue. Then, bring your list of questions to class,&lt;br /&gt;discussion section, or office hours.&lt;br /&gt;6.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Be an active listener and a participant in lectures.&lt;/span&gt; It is essential to make the best&lt;br /&gt;use of your time in lecture. This means really paying attention, taking good notes, and&lt;br /&gt;asking good questions. But don’t just be a note-taker! Questions from students are&lt;br /&gt;usually incredibly helpful to everyone—professor and other students—by helping the&lt;br /&gt;professor to clarify confusing points and to make sure that the most important&lt;br /&gt;information does not get lost in the details. Often, the best students are the ones who&lt;br /&gt;ask questions, since others feel that they do not know enough to ask one. I strongly&lt;br /&gt;encourage you to ask questions even if they are not perfectly formulated!&lt;br /&gt;7.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You are encouraged to find other books on thermal physics&lt;/span&gt;—there is a vast&lt;br /&gt;number—to find alternative presentations, examples, and problems. Don’t let the&lt;br /&gt;class set the boundary for your learning. There is no boundary!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Other Books on Thermal Physics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  Thermal Physics, by Ralph Baierlein. One of our textbooks.&lt;br /&gt;2.  An Introduction to Thermal Physics, Daniel V. Schroeder. Our second textbook.&lt;br /&gt;3.  Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, 2nd&lt;br /&gt;edition, Herbert B.&lt;br /&gt;Callen. This is the book that was used last year. It has many excellent qualities, and&lt;br /&gt;the discussion of the postulates of thermodynamics is the basis for my lectures on that&lt;br /&gt;topic.&lt;br /&gt;4.  Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, and&lt;br /&gt;Horst Stocker. Part of a series of books used heavily in German universities.&lt;br /&gt;5.  Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics, Frederick Reif.&lt;br /&gt;6.  Thermal Physics, 2nd&lt;br /&gt;edition, Charles Kittel and Herbert Kroemer&lt;br /&gt;7.  Statistical Mechanics, A Concise Introduction for Chemists, by Benjamin Widom.&lt;br /&gt;8.  Environmental Physics, Egbert Boeker and Rienk van Grondelle. Shows you that&lt;br /&gt;Thermodynamics is relevant to saving the world!&lt;br /&gt;9.  An Introduction to global warming (article), by J.R. Barker and M.H. Ross, Am. J.&lt;br /&gt;Phys. 67 (12), December 1999. This issue of American Journal of Physics is devoted&lt;br /&gt;to thermal physics.&lt;br /&gt;10. The 2nd&lt;br /&gt;Law: Energy, Chaos, and Form, by P.W. Atkins. For the lay reader. This is&lt;br /&gt;part of the well-known series of Scientific American books. It is written by a famous&lt;br /&gt;Oxford, who is also an excellent writer.&lt;br /&gt;11. The Physics of Information Technology, by Neil Gershenfeld. Not primarily about&lt;br /&gt;thermodynamics, but has some interesting applications.&lt;br /&gt;12. A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of our&lt;br /&gt;Species, Planet, and Universe, by Gino Segre. An intruiging and well written book&lt;br /&gt;for the popular audience. Fun to read.&lt;br /&gt;13. Cosmology and Particle Physics, by Lars Bergstrom and Ariel Goobar.&lt;br /&gt;14. Understanding the Properties of Matter, Michael de Podesta. This is not strictly&lt;br /&gt;speaking a book on Thermodynamics, but it is full of tables and graphs with real data&lt;br /&gt;and shows how well predictions based on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics&lt;br /&gt;agree with the real world!&lt;br /&gt;15. Statistical Physics and Microscale Thermophysics, Van P. Carey. Full of&lt;br /&gt;mathematical details, this useful book is written from the Stat Mech point of view.&lt;br /&gt;16. Heat and Thermodynamics, M. W. Zemansky. A standard undergraduate text.&lt;br /&gt;17. Statistical Physics-Berkeley Physics Course, Volume 5, F Reif.&lt;br /&gt;18. Statistical Mechanics : A Set of Lectures, by Richard P. Feynman&lt;br /&gt;19. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and&lt;br /&gt;Matthew Sands.&lt;br /&gt;20. Statistical Mechanics, by Kerson Huang.&lt;br /&gt;21. Statistical Physics, by F. Mandl.&lt;br /&gt;22. Feynman Lectures on Computation, by Richard P. Feynman; edited by Tony Hey and&lt;br /&gt;Robin W. Allen.&lt;br /&gt;23. Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Thermodynamics, by F.W. Sears&lt;br /&gt;and G.L. Salinger&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2192116553731965751?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2192116553731965751/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2192116553731965751' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2192116553731965751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2192116553731965751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-succeed-in-this-class.html' title='How to Succeed in This Class'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-8949671613036739298</id><published>2008-03-20T19:11:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-20T19:57:04.066+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Vive les vacances</title><content type='html'>1. Pour ceux qui ne l'auraient pas vu, je vous rapelle qu'il existe des choses intéressantes sur internet concernant &lt;a href="http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/01/richard-feynman-douglas-robb-memorial.html"&gt;Richard Feynman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann"&gt;Murray Gell-Mann&lt;/a&gt; (toujours vivant, d'ailleurs) avait, pendant un moment, son bureau vis-à-vis de celui de Feynman, mais apparement les deux ne s'aimaient pas trop. &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/194"&gt;Cette video&lt;/a&gt; (16 minutes) est quand-même presque obligatoire pour des futurs physiciens ou physiciennes. Notez comment il prononce Coulomb (à 7 min 57 s). Gell-Mann est connu pour bien prononcer des mots étranges à sa langue maternelle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. En ce qui concerne la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;thermodynamique&lt;/span&gt;, j'ai cherché quelques compléments à notre cours qui pourraient peut-être aider à la compréhension de certains aspects. Mais notez que je n'ai pas lu tous ces textes et le pourcentage de ce qu'il y a d'utile dedans peut être assez petit. Voilà simplement des liens, vous devriez être capable d'y extraire le contenu intéressant. Ordre aléatoire, mais 2. et 4. sont probablement les plus utiles (et plus ou moins à notre niveau), tandis que vous devez absolument jeter un coup d'oeil sur 3 si vous avez le temps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://grothserver.princeton.edu/%7Egroth/phy301f05/index.html"&gt;Un cours donné a Princeton (Physics 301)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/%7Etatum/index.html"&gt;Notes de cours&lt;/a&gt; d'un professeur à la retraite de l'Université de Victoria, BC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.motionmountain.net/"&gt;Motion Mountain&lt;/a&gt; (The Free Physics Textbook) un livre plutôt "appetizer" au niveau mathématique, mais clarifie bien les concepts et contient des illustrations fantastiques. Le contenu concernant la thermodynamique commence à la page 2 puissance 8.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://stp.clarku.edu/notes/"&gt;Quelques chapitres d'un livre&lt;/a&gt; (surtout chapitre 2 pour le moment) qui va apparaitre en 2009 (Princeton University Press).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Bon, ça suffit pour le moment.&lt;br /&gt;For those not able to read english, I'm sorry if I wasn't able to help you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bonnes vacances&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-8949671613036739298?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/8949671613036739298/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=8949671613036739298' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8949671613036739298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/8949671613036739298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/03/vive-les-vacances.html' title='Vive les vacances'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-5391584404028846007</id><published>2008-03-07T15:00:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-07T15:09:54.779+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Das deutsche Wort des Tages</title><content type='html'>Je suis à la bibliothèque en train de finir ma série d'analyse numérique et j'ai découvert ce nouveau mot fantastique sur un classeur à côté de moi:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warmformgebungseigenschaften&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'arrive pas vraiment à le traduire en français, si vous voulez savoir ce que c'est:&lt;br /&gt;Objet: Classeur bleu&lt;br /&gt;Position: Bibliothèque de physique, au milieu des livres de chimie et métallurgie (beurk!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-5391584404028846007?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/5391584404028846007/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=5391584404028846007' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5391584404028846007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5391584404028846007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/03/das-deutsche-wort-des-tages.html' title='Das deutsche Wort des Tages'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3088395079200594961</id><published>2008-03-04T20:28:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T21:00:17.048+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>LaTeX</title><content type='html'>Vu que tout le monde est convaincu maintenant que LaTeX pourrait être utile et qu'il vaut mieux apprendre à l'utiliser tout de suite...&lt;br /&gt;Pour modifier le &lt;a href="http://thermowiki.epfl.ch/thermowiki"&gt;thermowiki&lt;/a&gt;, il y a evidemment pas besoin d'installer quelquechose. Par contre, si vous voulez créer des documents vous-même, voilà ce qu'il faut (ou plutôt, ce qu'on  pourrait) faire:&lt;br /&gt;Pour ceux qui utilisent Windows, je propose d'installer MiKTeX et TeXnicCenter, c'est assez facile à utiliser. Pour les gens qui utilisent Linux l'installation est en général plus simple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.miktex.org/"&gt;http://www.miktex.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.toolscenter.org/"&gt;http://www.toolscenter.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour un exemple d'utilisation, voir:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/anum/serie1.tex" target="_blank"&gt;serie1.tex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce qui donne, une fois latexifié:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/anum/serie1.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;serie1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous voulez essayer de "compiler" (ce n'est pas la bonne expression, mais ça ressemble) ce document vous-même, vous devez avoir ces deux fichiers .eps dans le même dossier que le fichier .tex:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/anum/intlag100_1.eps" target="_blank"&gt;intlag100_1.eps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/anum/t_intlag800_1.eps" target="_blank"&gt;t_intlag800_1.eps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reste à ajouter que je ne suis pas un spécialiste LaTeX, mais peut-être qu'il y en a dans la classe. En tout cas, si vous avez une question, je veux bien sûr essayer d'y répondre.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3088395079200594961?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3088395079200594961/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3088395079200594961' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3088395079200594961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3088395079200594961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/03/latex.html' title='LaTeX'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3027294212466294323</id><published>2008-02-04T14:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T21:03:11.033+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Remarkable coincidence</title><content type='html'>Hier soir j'ai, par simple curiosité, feuilleté un peu dans le livret des cours 07/08 de la section de Physique. Aujourd'hui (par simple curiosité ;-) ) je tombe sur un ancien article de &lt;a href="http://www.physicstoday.org/"&gt;Physics Today&lt;/a&gt; avec le titre intéressant &lt;a href="http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-4/pdf/vol48no12p25-30%28part1%29.pdf"&gt;"What Future Will We Choose for Physics?".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Pour être complet, les deux parties de l'article se trouvent &lt;a href="http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-4/archive.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;Quel est le rapport? Il suffit de lire les textes, donc je vous ai copié celui de l'article (en Anglais), puis celui du livret des cours (en Français).&lt;br /&gt;Voici celui de l'article:&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The physicist's definition of physics is based not on a list of specific topics, but on the set of conceptual tools that have bound this community of scientists together across time and diverse research activities.&lt;br /&gt;These tools are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Advanced training in a common set of core subjects - presently, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;An inherently quantitative and reductionist approach to unerstanding physical phenomena.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A strong tendency to abstract and attack the common, universal features of a problem to gain insight that goes beyond the specifics of the particular system being examined.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;These conceptual tools, more than anything else, differentiate the physicist from other scientists. The physicist is most cogently identified, not by the subject studied, but by the way in which a subject is studied and by the nature of the information being sought. A concept-based definition also distinguishes physics from other disciplines that are more closely tied to specific subjects. For example, astronomers study pulsars and biologists study living systems; but because there is interesting physics in both pulsars and the organizational principles of living systems, physicists study both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;Voilà le texte du livret des cours:&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La formation en physique ne se définit pas vraiment sur la base d'une liste de sujets spécifiques, mais plutôt comme un ensemble d'outils conceptuels qui ont lié ensemble une communauté de scientifiques au cours du temps et à travers des activités de rechereche très diverses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ces outils sont:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Une formation avancée dans un unsemble de sujets communs, actuellement la mécanique, l'électricité et le magnétisme, la thermodynamique, la mécanique statistique et la mécanique quantique.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Une approche quantitative et réductionniste de la compréhension des phénomènes physiques.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Une forte tendance à l'abstraction et à la prise en compte des traits communs, universels d'un problème, afind d'obtenir une compréhension qui va au-delà des spécifitées du système étudié.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Ces outils conceptuels, plus que toute autre chose, différencient le physicien d'autres scientifiques. Le physicien se définit bien plus par la manière dont un sujet est étudié et par la nature de ce qu'on y cherche, que par le sujet étudié. Le chimiste étudies la catalyse, par exemple, le biologiste les systèmes vivants, le scientifique des matériaux les composites. Mais parce qu'il y a de la physique intéressante dans ces sujets-là, les physiciens s'y intéressent aussi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion?&lt;br /&gt;Bien sûr qu'on pourrait critiquer que le texte du livret des cours correspond presque mot-à-mot à celui de l'article et qu'on aurait donc pu mentionner la source (je doute que l'auteur de l'article ait recopié le texte du livret des cours, juste pour être clair ;-) ).&lt;br /&gt;Par contre, ce qui me plait, apart le fait que c'est une très jolie définition de la physique qui mérite certainement d'être copiée,  c'est que celui qui a rédigé le texte dans le livret des cours avait évidemment lu l'article.&lt;br /&gt;Et pourquoi est-ce que ce seraient des bonnes nouvelles?&lt;br /&gt;Faut lire l'article. Une section de physique dont les enseignants (je suppose) lisent des articles sur les problèmes de la physique et des physiciens sur le marché de travail et les défis de l'avenir ne peut pas être complètement "off track".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3027294212466294323?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3027294212466294323/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3027294212466294323' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3027294212466294323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3027294212466294323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/02/remarkable-coincidence.html' title='Remarkable coincidence'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2723827954965387092</id><published>2008-01-20T12:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T21:51:41.763+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>TWF 260</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/retina_nebula.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/retina_nebula.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Un site qui mérite une visite est celui de &lt;a href="http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/"&gt;John Baez&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Cette photo, je l'ai prise du &lt;a href="http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week260.html"&gt;"This Week's Find" 260&lt;/a&gt;. Il y a aussi un petit commentaire sympa.&lt;br /&gt;Pour les physiciens qui de temps en temps ont de la peine à se motiver pour les maths (moi, par exemple), allez voir ce site, ça vous aidera (mais plutôt pour l'algèbre que pour l'analyse).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2723827954965387092?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2723827954965387092/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2723827954965387092' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2723827954965387092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2723827954965387092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-weeks-finds-in-mathematical.html' title='TWF 260'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-4417387975049623065</id><published>2008-01-19T15:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-19T15:29:43.235+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Formulaire de physique 1</title><content type='html'>Pour ceux qui auraient perdu leur formulaire de mécanique, vous trouvez un scan sous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/physique/formulaire_physique1.pdf"&gt;http://documents.epfl.ch/users/f/fb/fbalmer/www/physique/formulaire_physique1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-4417387975049623065?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/4417387975049623065/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=4417387975049623065' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4417387975049623065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/4417387975049623065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/01/formulaire-de-physique-1.html' title='Formulaire de physique 1'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-3662036081262053327</id><published>2008-01-18T22:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-18T22:20:25.568+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Distraction'/><title type='text'>Y cuánto vive?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt; Cuánto vive el hombre, por fin?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vive mil días o uno solo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una semana o varios siglos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por cuánto tiempo muere el hombre?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qué quiere decir 'Para Siempre'?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preocupado por este asunto&lt;br /&gt;me dediqué a aclarar las cosas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Busqué a los sabios sacerdotes,&lt;br /&gt;los esperé después del rito,&lt;br /&gt;los aceché cuando salían&lt;br /&gt;a visitar a Dios y al Diablo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se aburrieron con mis preguntas. &lt;br /&gt;Ellos tampoco sabían mucho,&lt;br /&gt;eran sólo administradores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los médicos me recibieron,&lt;br /&gt;entre una consulta y otra,&lt;br /&gt;con un bisturí en cada mano,&lt;br /&gt;saturados de aureomicina,&lt;br /&gt;más ocupados cada dia.&lt;br /&gt;Según supe por lo que hablaban&lt;br /&gt;el problema era como suige:&lt;br /&gt;nunca murió tanto microbio,&lt;br /&gt;toneladas de ellos caían,&lt;br /&gt;pero los pocos que quedaron&lt;br /&gt;se manifestaban perversos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me dejaron tan asustado&lt;br /&gt;que busqé a los enterradores.&lt;br /&gt;Me fuí a los ríos donde queman&lt;br /&gt;grandes cadáveres pintados,&lt;br /&gt;pequeños muertos huesudos.&lt;br /&gt;emperadores recubiertos&lt;br /&gt;por escamas atterradoras,&lt;br /&gt;mujeres aplastadas de pronto&lt;br /&gt;por una ráfaga de cólera. &lt;br /&gt;Eran riberas de difuntos&lt;br /&gt;y especialistas cenicientos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando llegé mi oportunidad&lt;br /&gt;les largué unas cuantas preguntas,&lt;br /&gt;ellos me ofrecieren quemarme:&lt;br /&gt;era todo lo que sabían.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En mi país los enterradores&lt;br /&gt;me contestaron, entre copas:&lt;br /&gt;- 'Búscate una moza robusta&lt;br /&gt;y déjate de tonterías.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nunca vi gentes tan alegres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cantaban levantando el vino&lt;br /&gt;por la salud y por la muerte. &lt;br /&gt;Eran grandes fornicadores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regresé a mi casa más viejo&lt;br /&gt;después de recorrer el mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No le pregunto a nadie nada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero sé cada día menos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda"&gt;Pablo Neruda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-3662036081262053327?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/3662036081262053327/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=3662036081262053327' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3662036081262053327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/3662036081262053327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/01/y-cunto-vive.html' title='Y cuánto vive?'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-2254559161483528945</id><published>2008-01-18T22:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-18T22:16:03.534+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Physique'/><title type='text'>Richard Feynman</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures 1979&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quatre présentations excellentes sur l'électrodynamique quantique que ce grand physicien avait donné en 1979 à l'Université de Auckland (NZ). Pour ceux qui n'ont pas de problèmes avec l'anglais: &lt;a href="http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8/"&gt;http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8&lt;/a&gt; (vous avez besoin du RealPlayer).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Un autre lien où vous trouvez des extraits d'un interview avec lui: &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/"&gt;www.bbc.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-2254559161483528945?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/2254559161483528945/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=2254559161483528945' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2254559161483528945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/2254559161483528945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/01/richard-feynman-douglas-robb-memorial.html' title='Richard Feynman'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330088862949905288.post-5668380298553109225</id><published>2008-01-18T22:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-18T22:23:20.816+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Général'/><title type='text'>Voilà</title><content type='html'>J'ai décidé de créer un petit blog, surtout parce que j'en avais marre d'écrire du HTML chaque fois que je voulais communiquer des petits trucs à mes camarades de classe...&lt;br /&gt;Ce blog ne va pas être très actif, surtout pas en ce qui ne concerne pas les études, je préfère de parler aux gens directement.&lt;br /&gt;Mais quelques poèmes ou images de temps en temps...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330088862949905288-5668380298553109225?l=consciousandcurious.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/feeds/5668380298553109225/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330088862949905288&amp;postID=5668380298553109225' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5668380298553109225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330088862949905288/posts/default/5668380298553109225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousandcurious.blogspot.com/2008/01/voil.html' title='Voilà'/><author><name>Frédéric Balmer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00019182465044947196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
