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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.
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Field-sensitive addressing and control of field-insensitive neutral-atom qubits : Abstract : Nature Physics "Here, we demonstrate the selection of individual qubits with external fields, while the qubits are in field-insensitive superpositions. We use a spatially inhomogeneous external field to...
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slacktivist: The short straw "Tony Perkins looks nervous, unsure if he should be glad he gets to go first. He reaches out and makes his choice. Grinning broadly, he holds up the long straw for the others to see...
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Charlie Rose - An interview with David Foster Wallace A 1997 interview, when Wallace was promoting A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, covering a wide range of topics. (tags: video writing books literature movies humanities academia society...
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Setshot: Basketball for the Aging and Infirm: Rosters: Managing the list "Overall, I like administering the list because I can virtually guarantee that any time I want to play, there will be others to play with. I also like...
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Newton, P.I. | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine "Happily, Tom Levenson (of The Inverse Square, and one of our honored guest bloggers) has provided us with a fascinating peek into a telling episode in Newton’s later life — his...
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Acephalous: Infinite Summer: Morbid? Culturally Imperial? Morbidly Culturally Imperial? "In the end, what’s interesting about the 25-year-old Klein’s post about the 46-year-old Foster Wallace’s novel is the notion that someone who was 18 years old when the Clash first...
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Physics Buzz: A day at the International Submarine Races "Last weekend, travelers at a rest stop in Minnesota became alarmed when a group of college kids pulled up in a U-haul truck, carefully unloaded a large, sleek object from...
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Cocktail Party Physics: dial-a-scientist "It all started Wednesday, when I got an email from Brandon Webb, who handles PR for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UT Dallas. He wanted to know if I could talk to...
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Hacker News | I was a theoretical physicist for 13 years, and struggled a lot with this questi... "One unusual but very useful style was to set a goal like reading 15 papers in 3 hours. I use the...
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Technology & Middle Earth : Built on Facts "Why doesn't anyone just use a telescope or binoculars? Ok sure, it's ancient middle earth and presumably a Galileo hasn't been born yet. But I see no reason that this ought...
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