As you’ve probably heard, ScienceBlogs is going to be silent for a day or two starting… 1pm today I think? I’m not sure, I don’t pay attention very well at our board meetings. And by board meetings I mean whatever happens to get posted on the internal message board. But apparently we’re upgrading the posting…

This one’s a little of the beaten path for this site, since it’s not physics or even anything I normally follow as a hobby. But along with science and many other things I’m a bit of a firearms enthusiast, and since guns are closely connected with hunting it probably wasn’t unlikely that I’d come across…

Reader Scott writes in with a good question that I’ve heard posed by several people in various places, because it really goes to the core of the counterintuitive nature of relativity. Okay, let’s assume I’m in a spacecraft moving at a speed of c-1 m/s. That’s one m/s less than the speed of light. Would…

Over at Uncertain Principles, Chad is talking football. There’s this pesky problem of spotting the ball at the end of the play. In a game where fractions of an inch can make or break the end result, too often the issue is determined by a more or less random guess by the referee of where…

I was out of town (again) this past weekend, hence the posting shortage. Why in the world is it so much harder to find time to post during a nominal between-semester-break? I dunno, but it seems to be true. Free time doesn’t scale the way you’d like. One of the fundamental skill sets a physicist…

The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion DebateAdam Frank Adam Frank is an astrophysicist and a man on a mission. It’s a brave mission, one which cuts strongly against the grain of the science vs. religion zeitgeist. It’s probably a mission which won’t succeed. Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate is the book’s subtitle,…

Real-life physics can be a pain. New Year’s Eve I went with an old high school friend of mine to meet some people and shoot fireworks. This concluded at a little before one in the morning, and after that we left. We wanted to catch up on what had been happening some more and so…