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Thoughts on physics, politics, and pop culture, by a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, plus occasional conversations with his dog.
You've read the blog, now try the books! How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is published by Scribner, and available wherever books are sold. How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is published by Basic Books and will be available 2/28/2012, as foretold by the Maya.
"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.
"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: Maintenance
Classes for the 2011-2012 academic year start tomorrow, which means that blogging will come to a nearly complete stop. I have an exceptionally heavy teaching load this term (deliberately, because I'm developing a new course in the winter term, and...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:05 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
It's been in the works for a while, but a couple of days ago the news got out via the usual combination of rumor-mongering and confidentiality-breaking that makes blogdom such a joy to work with (seriously, you want to know...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:18 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
Because I'm sure everybody is as fascinated by blog stats as I am, here's the traffic to this blog for 2010, in graphical form: In case you can't numerically integrate that in your head, I'll tell you that the total...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:04 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
As has been mentioned in countless places over the last few days, Yahoo plans to shut down Delicious, the social bookmark service that lots of people use for lots of things. My interest in it is pretty narrow, but important...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:11 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
So, I'm looking at the couple-dozen tabs I have open in Chrome for stuff that I think would be worth blogging about, and the slides for this afternoon's lecture that need revising, and the student poster that needs to be...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
The Corporate Masters are considering some steps to take ScienceBlogs more in a community/ social network/ Web 3.14/ whatever direction, and have asked us our opinions of various potential features. I have opinions on the subject, but they're ultimately less...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:50 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: PNAS
I'm going to be off at Worldcon for the next several days, but fear not, the blog will still be active. I have scheduled non-academic scientist interviews to post every weekday while I'm gone. There are two posts each for...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:46 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: PNAS
The Project for Non-Academic Science posts have been very well received, and I continue to get a steady trickle of new volunteers. I'm going to slow the rate of posting these a little bit, as the recent posting rate has...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Maintenance
ScienceBlogs is getting some back-end work done this evening, with yet another server/ MT upgrade. This is intended to help with the frequent timeout problems that bloggers and commenters have been having. Opinions differ as to whether this will fix...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 6:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Maintenance
A big thunderstorm last night took out the DSL at Chateau Steelypips (and most of the 518 area code, it seems), and service is still out. So, if you're wondering why I haven't had any online presence since 5pm or...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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