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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: 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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Category: Booklog
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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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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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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:28 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:54 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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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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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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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