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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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The recurrent timeout problem in the comments has been dragging on and on, but I'm not sure how much of a problem it is for you, the end user, as opposed to me, the guy who has to endure six...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:19 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Maintenance
Entry text is now in an ugly font, which can only mean that the upgrade was successful. Consider this an open thread for suggestions of feature that ought to be added now that we've modernized the back end.
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:20 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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A big storm has coated everything in the vicinity of Chateau Steelypips with a quarter-inch of ice. Trees are coming down all over the place (a big limb smashed the gate to our back yard), and the power is out...
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Next Thursday is Thanksgiving, and the impending holiday and associated travel has thrown our schedules all out of whack. I'm making myself crazy trying to maintain the usual posting schedule while still meeting work and family responsibilities. Thus, for at...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Thrilling analysis of blog traffic! With curve fitting!
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:26 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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In which I go on Injured Reserve for a few weeks.
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:13 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
A look at the year in blog traffic, and the top ten posts
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Category: Maintenance
As noted a little while ago, ScienceBlogs has recently redesigned the channel pages on the front page, and they now include images supplied by the bloggers. For example, the doomsday weapon photo that currently graces the Physical Science page is...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
ScienceBlogs has just redesigned the main site. Sort of. The change is subtle enough that you might not notice it-- the only real difference on the front page is that the "channel" list has been reorganized-- it's now slightly shorter,...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:55 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Maintenance
You may notice, a couple of posts down, a post with the title "Links for 2007-10-03," with a bunch of, well, links in it. This was auto-generated by del.icio.us, and is the main reason why I started using that service...
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