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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.

Chad Orzel "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)

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Popularization Is Its Own Reward?

Category: Academia

One of the major problems contributing to the dire situation described in Unscientific America is that the incentives of academia don't align very well with the public interest. Academic scientists are rewarded-- with tenure, promotion, and salary increases-- for producing...

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Why Traditional Publishing Is Better Than Blogging

Category: Blogs

Blogging offers a lot of nice features, but it's not a replacement for a book. If you thing that the existing apparatus of conventional publishing-- editors, publishers, and all the rest-- is something that will inevitably be swept away by Web 2.0, compare the book to the blog. It's a nice way to see that there really is value added by the editing and publishing process.

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Unscientific America by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum

Category: Science

his is a very good book, well argued and engagingly written. There's a lot of good stuff here, and a lot of food for thought about the history and future of science in America. Even if you've read their blog, Unscientific America presents the most complete and coherent version of their basic policy argument you're likely to find, and it's well worth reading.

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Death to the Un-Noted Endnote

Category: Academia

I'm not sure what the logic process behind endnotes without textual anchors is-- I suspect it's an impression on somebody's part that having actual note symbols would feel too intimidatingly academic. Whatever the logic for it, though, it's an absolutely horrendous decision.

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Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson

Category: History of Science

I've been enjoying Tom Levenson's "Diary of a Trade Book" series quite a bit (the latest post is on cover art), so when I say a stack of copies of Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the...

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Two-Word Lyrics: Independence Day Edition

Category: Pop Culture

Guess the song based on a two-word phrase from the lyrics. Now with a seasonally appropriate theme!

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How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Contest Winners

Category: Publicity

After a long baby-induced delay, we are finally ready to announce the winners of the How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Caption Contest and Poetry Contest. I've obtained a few more copies of the bound galleys from the publisher,...

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A Literary Theory

Category: SF

There is a fairly prominent strain of SF fandom which vehemently rejects all but the most superficial forms of literary analysis. This mostly seems to be due to bad experiences with English Lit classes in high school and/or college, at...

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Hugo Voting

Category: SF

How I voted for the 2009 Hugos, and why I voted that way.

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Infinite Jest: My Favorite Footnote

Category: Pop Culture

The Infinite Summer people got me to start re-reading Infinite Jest, but I'm not really going to attempt to hold to their proposed reading schedule. Not because I find it hard to find time to read, but because I have...

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