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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.
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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.
"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: Books
I've already read three of this year's six Hugo-nominated novels, and am highly unlikely to read two of the remaining three, but since I have voting rights, and want to be as responsible as I can about this, I started...
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Category: Japan
Mike Hoye rides the Tokyo subway and takes a picture of it: Here's my view of the same scene (from this Flickr set): I really hope he was sitting down when he took that....
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Category: Pictures
In honor of the Japanese crow story in today's Links Dump, here's a filler post with a picture of a Japanese crow:...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:14 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Japan
I'm kicking myself for not using this as a filler post a couple of weeks back when it was Easter: This is from one of the shrines at Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto-- the temple with the gigantic wooden platform looking out...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Japan
It occurred to me this morning, that in some senses, what I'm trying to do with lab pedagogy is rather like giving directions in Japan.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:24 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Japan
Lest you think that people in the US are uniquely alarmist about threats to Chiiiiillllllldrruuuun, a picture from last summer's trip to Japan: I have absolutely no idea what that says, but it sure is lurid....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:10 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pictures
Wow. I'm cranky today. I really need to be more Zen about things. Here's a picture to meditate on: This is the famous "Crane and Turtle" garden at Konchi-in in Kyoto. It's one of very few gardens absolutely known to...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Japan
As a Christmas present for her grandparents, Kate put together a coupld of albums of pictures from our Japan trip, including this shot of What Japanese Commuter Trains Look Like to Me: (That was taken standing up looking straight ahead...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:37 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Japan
In the same basic spirit as yesterday's knit cephalopod picture, here's a sign from Takayama that we really liked: I'm not sure exactly why the octopus has punched the fish to the moon, Ralph Kramden style, but Kate and I...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:11 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Japan
There's a chance that, if I make a serious push this week, I can have a first pass through the book complete before Christmas. So, of course, I'm procrastinating madly. I understand it's traditional to post pictures in these circumstances,...
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