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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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Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: Science
I was just tagging this for the Links Dump, but I thought it deserved better. Fred Clark, blogdom's best writer on politics and religion, is putting together a book-like thing from his blog, and has posted the introduction to the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:13 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The topic sucking up all blogospheric oxygen at the moment is the great elevator incident. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can find lots of good summaries and explanations, including from Phil Plait and Josh Rosenau. The...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:51 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I try not to do any shilling for political groups on the blog, but I'll make an exception for the National Center for Science Education. Why? Three reasons: 1) They do good and important, if not always glamorous work, supporting...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:50 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: World
A story to improve your opinion of humanity: Egypt's majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:52 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
What with one thing and another, I forgot to tag anything for the links dump yesterday, which means no links dump this morning. But that's all right, because Fred Clark's post about humorless prigs deserves a more prominent link. The...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
A big and important argument about religion and science has flared up again on Twittter. It occurs to me, though, that nobody has taken the obvious step of polling people about their actual beliefs, so let's see if we can't...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:04 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
There's been a lot written in the last day or so about this Pew Foundation Survey on who knows what about religion. Like most such surveys these days, they have a really easy online quiz version that you can take...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:54 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I've never thought of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. I haven't had to, since I don't live in The City, so about all I remember about him is that his choice of party back when he was first running...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:23 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I've said before that I think Fred Clark of Slacktivist is the very best blogger writing about religion and politics in America today. It's not even close. His recent series on things the government ought to be doing to help...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:48 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
There are lots of reasons why Josh Rosenau is one of the few writers blogging about science-and-religion issues that I still read. This morning's post on what you ought to do to determine effective approaches is an outstanding example: Rather...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:57 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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