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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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July 31, 2009
I'm a bibliophile. I read books at an inordinate rate and have a tendency to buy them at an even faster rate. Here at Texas A&M I'm fortunate to have access to a library of more than four million volumes,...
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July 30, 2009
You have a baseball-sized lump of metallic cobalt-60....
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July 28, 2009
We're not too far from the end of the Physics 202 class I'm helping teach, and as we finish things out we're learning about the particle nature of light and the wave nature of matter. It's really the very basics...
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July 27, 2009
This weekend I was at the movies with my lovely significant other watching The Proposal (verdict: about what you'd expect). Unusually for a by-the-numbers romcom, the pre-film previews showed no fewer than two promising science fiction films. Science fiction is...
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July 26, 2009
Category: Sunday Function
We've done a lot of discussion of the concept of integrals of a function here on this blog. Their definitions and applications are so broad as to defy any one-sentence description, but one of the most basic is the idea...
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July 25, 2009
Roughly a week or so ago the ScienceBlogs front page was discussing the new online videos of the Feynman lectures. Somehow they found one of my old posts on the subject. What I haven't really seen pointed out that the...
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July 24, 2009
Far be it from a ScienceBlog to bloviate insufferably about current events, but I suppose I should weigh in on the whole Henry Louis Gates thing. I suppose this because I've had a very similar thing once happen to me....
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July 23, 2009
Here's a neat little news article about humans glowing in the dark. The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has...
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July 22, 2009
Category: Worked Problems
This week the science blogosphere has been spending a lot of time on space exploration and the science of understanding the universe outside our own planet. At risk of being the buzzkill distracting from all the cool space travel history...
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July 21, 2009
There's been some discussion around the web of Jupiter apparently getting walloped by something, probably a comet. As with the more famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, the result is a small dark blot in the clouds of the Jovian upper atmosphere....
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