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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.
You've read the blog, now try the book: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog will be published December 22nd by Scribner.
"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: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
Last week, I promised to do a puppet show if my DonorsChoose challenge entry claimed more than 1% of the $200,000 that Hewlett-Packard is donating to this year's Social Media Challenge. If you're quick with arithmetic, you'll see that the...
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Category: Education
Via somebody on Twitter, Copyblogger has a post titled "7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School," which is, as you might guess, dedicated to provocatively contrarian advice about how to write, boldly challenging the received wisdom of English faculty:...
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Category: Blogs
I'm heading to the airport right after my second class today (I'm doing two weeks of our first-year seminar class), to appear at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. This promises to be a good...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:58 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
You sometimes hear people say that it's good to make a splash when embarking on a new media project. David Sloan Wilson has apparently taken this to heart, and tucks himself into a tight ball as he leaps off the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:11 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
If the Uncertain Principles cut of Hewlett-Packard's donation exceeds $2,000, I will recreate the Bohr-Einstein debates, with puppets.
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Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
This year's DonorsChoose challenge has brought in a respectable $1,929 thus far, helping reach almost 1000 school kids. Thanks to all those who have donated thus far. We've been stuck at that level for a little while now, though, so...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
The Digital Cuttlefish looks at the Archie comics, and waxes poetic: Two paths play out in a comic book, When Archie walks down memory lane "The road not taken" is the hook; So now, the writers take a look And...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:34 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Polls
I have a Dorky Poll idea for later in the day, but let's get this out of the way first: Choose only one:(opinion) Don't say I never gave you these options....
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Category: Blogs
Help kids in need, get a chance at an advance copy of my book, and thumb your nose at PETA. It doesn't get more noble than that!
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Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
Title pretty much says it all: donate to DonorsChoose, and you could win an advance copy of my book, among other things.
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