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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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Links for 2009-11-10

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A New Spacecraft to Explore on Waves of Light - NYTimes.com "About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles...

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Links for 2009-11-09

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The Mid-Majority : The Old Ways "Once the Union was preserved forever, the United States stopped worrying splitting into two. So with the late 1800's came the combat-in-context of professional and amateur sports. If you're looking for a reason...

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Links for 2009-11-08

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On Denialism and the role of science in America. (1) - By Chris Mooney and Michael Specter - Slate Magazine A fourpart discussion on science, the media, and American society, featuring the authors of _The Republican War on Science_...

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Links for 2009-11-07

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WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D. "This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention...

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Philip K. Dick | Books | The A.V. Club "Why it's daunting: Science fiction and fantasy get a lot of mileage out of taking their readers to new worlds, but most classic genre fiction is really about making new...

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Links for 2009-11-05

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TPM: The Philosophers' Magazine | My philosophy: Alan Sokal "Physicists, when they do philosophy, often do it badly. They're often confused about the conceptual foundations of their own physics, because sometimes you can compute and get the right results...

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Links for 2009-11-04

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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Protecting aircraft from high-powered lasers Sadly, this does not involve giant laser cannons trying to shoot down planes. (tags: science physics lasers optics) Essay - What to Write Next - Picking a Genre for...

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Links for 2009-11-03

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Fafblog! the whole world's only source for Fafblog. "I'm not real sure how I got here in the first place, and when you think about it you really have to go all the way back to school, and mom...

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Links for 2009-11-02

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Boo! The optics behind "ghost" imaging « Skulls in the Stars "Ghost imaging is in fact a fascinating and relatively new technique in which a detector can produce an image of an object that it cannot see! The physics...

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Links for 2009-11-01

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Another dumb article on why spaceflight is bad for you -- KarlSchroeder.com "But really, people, think! This doesn't mean that space flight is intrinsically dangerous. It means that badly shielded tin-can environments that aren't spun for gravity are a...

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