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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.

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Chad Orzel "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, the Queen of Niskayuna Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.

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Congratulations to Lauren Uroff and tcmJOE

Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser

During this year's DonorsChoose fundraiser, I promised books as prizes to people who contributed to my challenge. Now that the finished books are ready, it's time to congratulate the winners. Lauren Uroff wins one copy for giving the largest individual...

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Creepiness Is Contagious

Category: Academia

It's always kind of distressing to find something you agree with being said by people who also espouse views you find nutty, repulsive, or reprehensible. It doesn't make them any less right, but it makes it a little more difficult...

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DonorsChoose: The Final Days -or- You'll Get Your Puppet Show

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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Rule 1 of Writing: Try Not to Sound Like a Doofus

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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Taking Off for the Great White North

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...

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CANNONBALLLLLLL!!!!!!

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...

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DonorsChoose: Win Hewlett-Packard's Money

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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DonorsChoose Poll: Big Incentives

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...

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Many Worlds, Many Comics

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...

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Silly Poll: Choose Only One

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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