Merry Christmas/Isaac Newton’s Birthday

This is just a brief run-down of seasonal posts for Christmas this year:

From The Language of Bad Physics

• The 12 Days of Christmas Research
• 10 Delicious Papers from 2010

Other Seasonal Gems

• From Starts with a Bang: Hubble for the Holidays: A Bauble of a Bubble
• From Starts with a Bang: Hubble for the Holidays: Have a Cigar!
• From Starts with a Bang: Hubble for the Holidays: Eta Carinae
• From sciencebase: A Lethal Christmas Star
• Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2010
• From Wikipedia: Physics/2010 Selected pictures

Papers on the arXiv

• [1008.1728] Maximum and Minimum Stable Random Packings of Platonic Solids

Classics

• From Wesleyan Department of Physics: Physics Carols
• The Physics of Christmas
• [0503069] Images in Christmas Balls

Belated-Christmas Present Ideas

• Still trying to find your GravityGeek a Present for Newton’s Birthday?
• ESVA 2011 Calendar  ‘Physicists at Work & Play’
• The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey

Merry Christmas!