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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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The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo

Category: Science Books

There has been a fair amount of discussion of Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom-- Peter Woit reviewed it on his blog, the New York Times reviewed it a couple of...

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Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock [Library of Babel]

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Robert Charles Wilson's novel of 22nd century America features a movie about Charles Darwin that might almost get US distribution today.

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How Many Licks? or How to Estimate Damn Near Anything by Aaron Santos

Category: Math

Aaron Santos, a postdoc at Michigan, has put together a delightful collection of Fermi problems as a guide to the art and science of order-of-magnitude estimates.

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David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest [Library of Babel]

Category: Booklog

I finished re-reading Infinite Jest this week. I'm a few weeks ahead of the Infinite Summer crowd, which is a little frustrating, because I really want to see what they say about the later bits, but they won't get there...

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Karl Schroeder, The Sunless Countries [Library of Babel]

Category: Booklog

Jo Walton has a very nice review of Karl Schroeder's Permanence over at Tor.com, which contains a terrific summary of what makes Schroeder great: The problem with talking about Permanence (2002), or any of Schroeder's work really, is that it's...

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Spencer Quinn, Dog On It [Library of Babel]

Category: Booklog

It's been a while since I did a straight-up booklog post here, but most of what I've been reading lately hasn't really demanded one. I picked this up the other day after seeing a pile of them in the front...

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13 Things That Don't Make Sense, by Michael Brooks

Category: Science Books

Michael Brooks's 13 Things That Don't Make Sense turned up on a lot of "Best science books of 2008" lists, and the concept of a book about scientific anomalies seemed interesting, so I ordered it from Amazon. It's a quick...

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Icarus at the Edge of Time, by Brian Greene

Category: Booklog

Or, Brian Greene Writes a Kid's Book... This is a very odd book. It's printed on boards, like a book for very small children, but the story is a bit beyond what I would imagine reading to a normal kid...

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Recent Reading

Category: Booklog

I was up late watching my Giants play the Carolina Panthers (they won in OT-- now you see the importance of Brandon Jacobs), and today is a Baby Day, so I have no deep thoughts to blog. So here are...

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The Age of Entanglement by Louisa Gilder

Category: Physics Books

This is an excellent book, and I'm already planning to add it to the "further reading" list and at least one footnote of my own book-in-progress.

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