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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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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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Counterknowledge, by Damian Thompson [Library of Babel]

Category: Booklog

"This is counterknowledge: misinformation packaged to look like fact-- packaged so effectively, indeed, that the twenty-first century is facing a pandemic of credulous thinking. "

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Spaceman Blues, by Brian Francis Slattery [Library of Babel]

Category: Booklog

This is a really difficult book to describe. The promotional site name-checks the obvious people-- Phillip K. Dick, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins-- but the problem with that is that every halfway literary SF book out there has those names plastered all over the marketing. They don't really tell you much beyond what category of reader the book is being aimed at.

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Everything and More by David Foster Wallace

Category: Science Books

This isn't a book that will suit all tastes-- far from it-- but if you've read and liked other things by Wallace, it's worth a read. You'll never look at pure math the same way again.

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Longitude by Dava Sobel

Category: Science Books

I've said once or twice that it would be fun to build a GenEd science class around the title "A Brief History of Timekeeping." If I ever decide to try it, this book will be essential: it's brief, wonderfully clear, and a thoroughly enjoyable read. I definitely recommend it.

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A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford by Richard Reeves

Category: Books

Richard Reeves is probably best known for writing biographies of American Presidents (Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan), so it's a little strange to see him turn his hand to scientific biography. This is part of Norton's "Great Discoveries" series (which inexplicably...

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