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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: Pop Culture
There's a nice post over at "The World in a Satin Bag" on the important things editors do. The emphasis is on fiction publishing, but most of it applies to non-fiction as well: Editors make you into a better writer....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:26 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
Eric Whiteacre's Virtual Choir, made up of dozens of indivual YouTube videos.
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Category: Books
We subscribe to Locus, the SF review and news magazine, and every month when it arrives, I flip through it quickly to look at the ads. This is a useful guide to what's coming out from various publishers, but it's...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:21 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
There are at least as many ways to write really interesting essays as there are people writing really interesting essays, but for the most part, they break down into two broad types. There are the ones that completely change the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sports
Over at the Mid-Majority, Kyle Whelliston (formerly of espn.com) has a great essay on the "Sportz" phenomenon: Sports are great. Actual participation is awesome, but watching other people do sports can still be pretty good too. These days, people can...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:30 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
No, this is not a reference to the National Academy of Sciences report from a few years ago. This has to do with the newest Wheel of Time book, because while I'm a long distance removed from my Usenet days,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:44 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Polls
It's fall, which means that the major American sports are all ramping up (baseball is in its brief period of being interesting, the NFL is nearing the middle of its season, the NBA has just gotten underway, which means that...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:11 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Via somebody on Twitter, Copyblogger has a post titled "7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School," which is, as you might guess, dedicated to provocatively contrarian advice about how to write, boldly challenging the received wisdom of English faculty:...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:41 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
There's a new release today that everyone's talking about. A perfect topic for a poll: New Jordan book by Sanderson! Your reaction?(survey) Your opinion is important to us, so please choose carefully....
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Category: Polls
I'm kind of in a fog today, which I'm choosing to attribute to airport lag (it can't be jet lag, because I didn't change time zones, but you get some of the same disorientation from spending too much time in...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:20 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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