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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.
Category: Science
his is a very good book, well argued and engagingly written. There's a lot of good stuff here, and a lot of food for thought about the history and future of science in America. Even if you've read their blog, Unscientific America presents the most complete and coherent version of their basic policy argument you're likely to find, and it's well worth reading.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:11 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I'm not sure what the logic process behind endnotes without textual anchors is-- I suspect it's an impression on somebody's part that having actual note symbols would feel too intimidatingly academic. Whatever the logic for it, though, it's an absolutely horrendous decision.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 5:01 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Firday's quick and sarcastic post came about because I thought the Dean Dad and his commenters had some interesting points in regard to high school math requirements, but we were spending the afternoon driving to Whitney Point so I could...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:49 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Chris Mooney has an explanation of the "accommodationist" position that deserves better than to be buried in a Links Dump: I don't see a need to pry into how each individual is dealing with these complicated and personal matters of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:48 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Chris Mooney has found new digs, and, revitalized by the more congenial atmosphere, has been taking up the science vs. religion fight again. Yesterday, he had a post asking what can be done to get moderate scientists more involved in...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:13 AM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
A major study of charter schools reports demographic data that don't seem to make much sense. What's up with that?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:05 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The main speaker at yesterday's Commencement was Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve Chairman (the guy before Alan Greenspan) and current chair of President Obama's economic advisory council. As you would expect from somebody of his background, the bulk of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Somebody recently asked me whether I had figured out who Female Science Professor is. I truthfully replied that I haven't even tried. That was the first thing that came to mind when some jerk from the National Review revealed the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:39 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
For reasons that don't really matter, I learned yesterday that there is a marathon in Antarctica: On December 12th, 2009, the fifth Antarctic Ice Marathon will take place at 80 Degrees South, just a few hundred miles from the South...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:04 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A thousand curses on Kevin Drum for making me read some idiocy from the National Review's attempts to find things wrong with Sonia Sotomayor: Deferring to people's own pronunciation of their names should obviously be our first inclination, but there...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:53 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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