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Baseball Physics: Deception and Battered Expectations (LiveScience.com)

On fields of dreams, the duel between the batter and the pitcher at times assumes aspects of humiliation and farce. And never more so than when a batter misses a pitch, swinging so forcefully as to nearly sprain something. The culprit in such cases is usually either a rising fastball or a so-called drop curveball.

iPhone app maker hit with Major League cease-and-desist order

Major League Baseball is crying foul over an Apple iPhone App called Baseball that it says infringes on MLB trademarks. At issue is Baseball’s use of MLB team logos inside the application. The free Baseball application for iPhones debuted last Friday as one of hundreds of applications available through iTunes App Store. Baseball, published by Bulbous Ventures, is a reference utility packed with baseball statistics dating back to the 1888 Detroit Wolverines all the way up to San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds’ 2007 battering average of .276.

MLB orders action against Baseball iPhone...

The Major League Baseball association is seeking action against a free iPhone application called Baseball (opens in iTunes), regarding its use of MLB team logos throughout the app. PC World reveals the app contains thousands of team and player statistics, reaching back to 1888, all the way until the current baseball season. On Monday, Mark Knopper – owner and proprietor of Bulbous Ventures – was instructed by email to remove all logos related to Major League Baseball, and associated teams.

MLB calls free Baseball iPhone app a foul ball

Following the launch of the App Store, iPhone apps are selling (or are being downloaded) like hotcakes. A whole range of application are available, including a free Baseball application. The app provides baseball statistics from all the way back to 1871, and is billed as a way for baseball fans to settle arguments (or cheat during trivia night). Unfortunately, Major League Baseball isn't too happy with images used in the application, and according to PC World, has asked the author to remove them from the program.

Physics World: China becomes physics powerhouse

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- There can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's physics power houses judged by the astonishing increase in papers written by scientists in China, said Physics World, an international monthly magazine, in a report published on Friday.

Challenge Games Launches Baseball Boss - First Online Game to Combine Virtual Baseball Card Collecting and Fantasy Sports

Challenge Games Launches Baseball Boss - First Online Game to Combine Virtual Baseball Card Collecting and Fantasy Sports

Back to School Physics

I frequently get a lot of questions, especially around this time of year, for suggestions on studying physics. Actually, what I tend to get are e-mails asking me to explain physics (or quantum physics or thermodynamics or relativity or fluid mechanics or energy or momentum or ... well, you get the idea). Sorry to disappoint everyone, but here's a sad truth:

The Physics of Car Crashes

I frequently get e-mails asking about various physics situations. Recently, I got one from Anton Tuomi in Sweden which brought up a lot of rich physics topics:

OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO

Brian Jordan writes "For 48 hours during the weekend of August 29-31 at the OLPC Physics Game Jam Boston, game developers will compete in teams of 2-4 to design and implement a physics-based game for the One Laptop per Child XO laptop. There are prize categories for indie, professional, and remote developers (Ludum Dare style). In addition to OLPC/Jam-related swag for all participants, one team will win an XO laptop. Participants should have some game development experience, but we'll be going over the development process during the event — read below for details. If you'll be in the Boston area this weekend, or want to participate remotely, sign up before August 22. If you're a graphic artist, sound designer, musician in the Boston area, or want to be a volunteer, get in touch.

Chalkboard Sports Baseball for iPod released

D2C Games today released Chalkboard Sports Baseball, a single-player arcade baseball game for the iPod. The game is available through the iTunes Store for $5.

Quantum Physics: Disentangling Strange Behavior Of Qubits

Current technology enables the building of electrical circuits similar to those we use at home but reduced thousands of times in size to a micrometric scale of thousandths of a millimetre. When these circuits are built of superconductor materials and at near-absolute zero cryogenic temperatures, the world of everyday physics is left behind and the amazing world of quantum physics is entered.

Bullet 2.70 Physics SDK: Bunny car

Bullet 2.70 physics SDK is available for download now. New features includes constraints between deformable objects and rigid bodies, kinematic character controller and Havok .hkx to COLLADA Physics .dae file converter. Hint: control the bunny vehicle using K,L,N,M keys. Feedback is welcome in the Bullet forums.

MLB cries foul, demands Baseball iPhone app-maker cease and desist

"Major League Baseball is crying foul over an Apple iPhone App called Baseball that it says infringes on MLB trademarks," Tom Spring reports for PC World.

Japanese particle-physics leader dies

Yoji Totsuka, former director general of the KEK particle-physics lab in Japan, died yesterday at the age of 66. Totsuka, whose research interests were in the field of neutrino physics, served as KEK boss for three years from April 2003 After retiring in 2006, Totsuka became a professor emeritus at KEK and the University of Tokyo.

ESPN Bringing Major League Baseball to Xbox Live

ESPN and Major League Baseball Advanced Media have extended their new-media rights deal, which will see the cable network bring Major League Baseball coverage to numerous platforms including Xbox Live through 2013.

High-energy physics labs become INSPIREd

CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC have announced that they will join forces to build INSPIRE, the next-generation, high-energy physics (HEP) information system. The announcement came at the second annual Summit of Information Specialists in Particle Physics and Astrophysics, which was held at DESY on 20–21 May. Representatives from the four laboratories attended the event, together with leading publishers and information providers, including Cornell’s http://arXiv.org and the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System.

Magazine: China becomes physics powerhouse

There can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's physics power houses judged by the astonishing increase in papers written by scientists in China, said Physics World, an international monthly magazine, in a report published on Friday.

China becomes a physics powerhouse

Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. Michael Banks, Physics World's News Editor, quantifies this surge in scientific output from China and asks whether quality matches quantity in August's Physics World.

China becomes a physics powerhouse

Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. Michael Banks, Physics World's News Editor, quantifies this surge in scientific output from China and asks whether quality matches quantity in August's Physics World.

Indonesian nanotechnology researchers inspired by physics conference

(Nanowerk News) Indonesian researchers can access the latest research in particle physics from world-class scientists gathering for the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, which opened Tuesday.

D2C Games' Chalkboard Sports Baseball Hits it Out of the Park, Onto Your iPod

D2C Games™, Inc., a premier developer and publisher of mass-market downloadable interactive entertainment, today announced that Chalkboard Sports Baseball™ is now available on the iTunes® Store ( www.iTunes.com). Sports fans can purchase and download Chalkboard Sports Baseball for $4.99 and play America’s favorite pastime anytime, anywhere on an iPod® nano (3rd generation), iPod® classic and iPod® (5th generation).

RI's nanotechnology to be inspired by physics conference

Indonesian researchers can access the latest research in particle physics from world-class scientists gathering for the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, which opened Tuesday.

Students Who Use 'Clickers' Score Better on Physics Tests

Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies. Ohio State University students who used the devices to answer multiple-choice questions during physics lectures earned final examination scores that were around 10 percent higher--the equivalent of a fullletter grade--than students who didn't. Full story

Revolutionary chefs? Not likely, shows physics research

However much the likes of Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on, shows new research, published today, Thursday, 10 July, 2008, in the Institute of Physics (IOP)'s New Journal of Physics (NJP).

The Rainbow and the Worm - The Physics of Organisms

This highly unusual, widely acclaimed book began as a serious enquiry into quantum physicist Erwin Schrõdinger's question, “What is life”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes you through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is treated to a rare and exquisite view of the organism, gaining novel insights not only into the physics, but also “the poetry and meaning of being alive.”

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