Look, a butterfly!

I find it disappointing that SBS thinks it appropriate to disguise blatant advertising as news. Earlier today, an article entitled “How to watch the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on your Telstra Next G mobile” made it’s way to the latest headlines section on the SBS World News website. Now it sits in the most popular section.

Within the article, it is made clear that this is a sponsored feature, but only once you follow the link to the article and start reading it. When viewed in the headlines section, it is indistinguishable from other legitimate pieces of news. I wonder whether the article’s new status as most popular is in fact legitimate, or whether that space can also be bought.

Michael Nielsen writes a very interesting essay discussing the challenges and opportunities that scientists will be faced with in the near future. Well worth a read.

I have a new paper on the arXiv:

We present an analysis of squeezed single photon states as a resource for teleportation of coherent state qubits and propose proof-of-principle experiments for the demonstration of coherent state teleportation and entanglement swapping. We include an analysis of the squeezed vacuum as a simpler approximation to small-amplitude cat states. We also investigate the effects of imperfect sources and ineffcient detection on the proposed experiments.

This is an incredible video!

I found a Siamese strawberry this morning!

I hope the weather stays nice for today’s BBQ!

I just stumbled upon this old, but very interesting, post by Theodore Gray, where he describes how he used Mathematica to efficiently generate some pretty impressive movies. If you don’t want to read the post, then you must still check out this cool periodic table movie.

Another example of quantum PhD students going creative (mad!)

Some Griffith Uni PhD students get creative while their supervisor’s away

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