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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: Sports
I can't be a fan of baseball, for the same reason that I can't be a conservative Republican activist-- I don't have the mental circuitry necessary to passionately believe self-contradictory things.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:52 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
Theorem: The worthiness of a blog post on a political or social topic is inversely proportional to the number of times derisive nicknames are used to refer to the author's opponents....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 5:05 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
A couple of things that I'm not excited to blog about, but sort of feel like I ought to say something about: 1) The Washington Monthly article about StraighterLine, an online program that lets you take college courses for $99/mo....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:48 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care
The results, however, are amusing for the rest of us: It's nice to see somebody in a safe district taking advantage of essentially having tenure. We could use more of this....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:00 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Tobias Buckell had some heart issues a while back, and the stress of Worldcon aggravated things a bit: By Sunday morning, I was feeling completely sapped, and not getting enough sleep. I tried to nap before the pre-Hugo ceremony, but...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:53 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Society
Continuing the morning's theme of "crushingly depressing stories from the New York Times," there's also a downer article about cities where there are more deaths than births: What demographers call a natural decrease has been occurring for years in tiny...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:15 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health Care
One of the standard conservatarian responses to anyone suggesting government-funded universal health care is to start talking about how universal health care will inevitably lead to faceless, heartless bureaucrats denying or delaying treatment for stupid reasons. My response to these...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:06 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
