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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.

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Physics Can Fix This

Category: Academia

How physics provides the key to solving the world financial crisis.

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Class and College

Category: Academia

Over at Unqualified Offerings, Thoreau offers a provocative comment on class and higher education: Today (OK, yesterday, but I didn't really sleep on the plane, so it's still yesterday, or tomorrow is also today, or something) a friend offered (without...

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Why "Clean Coal" Matters

Category: Science

Back before things went pear-shaped this weekend, Jonathan Zasloff had a good post about why "clean coal" is important: I think it's terrific that the Coen Brothers are making funny, effective ads against relying on "clean coal" as part of...

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Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass

Category: Class Issues

The big news of the day from the world of politics is that President Obama plans to cap executive pay at banks that take bailout money in the next round of emergency cash payments. This is not popular with the...

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Sports, Test Scores, and the Difference Between Science and Journalism

Category: Academia

Inside Higher Ed has an article on athletics and admissions based on an investigative report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The report compares the SAT scores of football and basketball players to those of other students, but what it really highlights...

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Teachers, Quarterbacks, and Markets

Category: Education

You can perfectly well advocate a profit-driven all-private education system, and it would probably have some benefits for affluent, educated people near major urban centers. For the country as a whole, though, it would be a disaster.

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Bailouts Explained

Category: Silliness

As always, if you want penetrating analysis of the news, you need to go to a comedian. Jon Stewart explains why Congress is willing to bail out Wall Street, but not Detroit: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The...

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What's the Matter With Your Definitions?

Category: Class Issues

Over at Slate, Daniel Gross has a really dumb piece on rich people voting for Obama "against their own economic interest". There are many dumb things about this article, starting with the fact that it doesn't even attempt to answer...

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The Visual Display of Political Information

Category: Politics

Why I hate the graph comparing the candidates' tax plans.

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Working for the Working Class Vote

Category: Class Issues

the New York Times Magazine has a cover story this week about Barack Obama's efforts to reach working-class voters. The headline writers did it no favors by tagging it "Will gun-toting, churchgoing white guys pull the lever for Obama?," which...

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