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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: Food
If you buy a loaf of bread, it comes in a plastic bag closed with either a metal twist-tie or a little plastic tab. Either of these may be re-used to close the bag again after you have used some...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:24 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Polls
How do you like your drinks?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:42 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
Physicists frequently get laughed at for referring to problems as "trivial" when calculus is required to solve them. "Maybe it's trivial for you, Einstein," people will say, "but it looks pretty hard from here." It's nice to see that other...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:21 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
Why is it that you can buy apple cider all year round, but apple cider donuts are treated as a seasonal item, and only in stores for a week and a half in October? Happily, these people make them year...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:20 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
Why in hell is there soy in Italian soft rolls? Parents of sensitive-stomached babies everywhere would like to know....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 5:49 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
Prior to SteelyKid's arrival, the "Pasta with Butter, Sage, and Parmesan" recipe from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything had become one of our staple recipes. It's dead simple to make, we always have the stuff on hand (I've been...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:19 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
When people attending a meeting-- particularly a meeting that starts at 8am on a Saturday-- elect to drink tea rather than coffee, they do so because they do not want coffee. For this reason, it is imperative that you not...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:10 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
Every Friday (more or less) there's a "Faculty Social Hour" on campus. They have cheese and crackers, a fairly random assortment of beer, and a couple of bottles of wine, and various faculty come by to wind down a bit...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:32 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
The Super Bowl is Sunday, and a look in the fridge shows that I'm low on beer. What sort of beer should I buy to drink with the game?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:18 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dog
... or, Emmy's Best Thanksgiving Ever!
Posted by Chad Orzel at 5:21 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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