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Thoughts on physics, politics, and pop culture, by a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, plus occasional conversations with his dog.
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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: Blogs
The always interesting Timothy Burke has a post that's basically a long links dump pointing to two articles about the state of humanities in academia, which includes a sort of aside that is more interesting to me than either of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:22 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
I'm a little late to the Most Popular Posts of the Year list party, partly because I wanted to wait until the year was actually over, and partly because Google Analytics was being Difficult, and I had to switch back...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
Three quick items relating to science in book form: 1) It's that time of year again when every media outlet of any consequence puts out a "Year's Best {Noun}" list, and John Dupuis is checking the lists for science books...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:22 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SAT Challenge
A blog run by the Washington Post featured a post on Monday about an adult taking and failing a standardized test, who was later revealed as school board member Rick Roach: Roach, the father of five children and grandfather of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:10 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
I've been too busy to really work on the DonorsChoose fundraiser this year, but it's worth taking a little time to mention this opportunity: Starting today and running through Saturday midnight, the DonorsChoose board will match donations to the Science...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
Alternate title: I Have an Overdeveloped Sense of Responsibility, Which Is Going to Get Me in Trouble Someday. So, it's October, which means the annual DonorsChoose fundraising challenge is upon us. I really don't have time to do a good...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 1:30 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae." Ethan will presumably have a post with about...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:26 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
I don't think my point quite got across the other day, so let me try phrasing this another way. I think a lot of what's being written about pseudonymity on blogs is missing the real point. The really important question...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:29 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
The whole issue of pseudonymity has come up again, both on Google+ and on ScienceBlogs. While I've been on the Internet for nigh on 20 years, my initial point of entry was through a Usenet group that strongly preferred real...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:00 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
A well-known joke is "Rule 34" saying that anything that exists will have porn about it on the Internet. The introduction to this Inside Higher Ed piece about anti-law-school blogs reminds me that we probably need a higher-numbered rule stating...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:32 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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