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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: Politics
This Timothy Burke post on the current political moment deserves better than to be buried in the Links Dump. He's beginning to despair because it looks like "there are many things which could happen which would improve the lives of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:17 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Class Issues
Kevin Drum checks in with the latest from the class wars: In the middle of a rant about healthcare reform and the compromise over the Cadillac tax, one of Andrew Sullivan's readers says this: The idea that public employees make...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:55 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Paul Krugman had a post today calling Obama the WYSIWYG President: There's a lot of dismay/rage on the left over Obama, a number of cries that he isn't the man progressives thought they were voting for. But that says more...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:17 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Janet has a typically thoughtful post about tuition benefits, following on a proposal to eliminate tuition benefits for employees of the University of Illinois. Janet does a great job of rounding up the various pros and cons of the benefit...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:42 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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