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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: Personal
Kate has a court appearance in New York tomorrow, and we're making a long weekend of it. I'm typing this from my parents' house, where I'm dropping SteelyKid off for some quality time with Grandma and Grandpa, and tomorrow, I'm...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:03 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
Eric Whiteacre's Virtual Choir, made up of dozens of indivual YouTube videos.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:26 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Two Cultures
Via Bora on FriendFeed, a cute little art project from MIT that takes a name, scans the Web for mentions of that name, and produces a color-coded bar categorizing the various mentions of that name. Here's what you get if...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:28 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SF
Worldcon is less than two weeks off, which means that it's time once again for the SF part of blogdom to explode with complaints about the quality of the nominees. There are some reasonable reactions, but it's mostly slightly over-the-top...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:14 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:51 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
Just a quick reminder post to note that you can win an advance proof copy of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in one of two ways: By captioning pictures of the dog with physics apparatus By writing short...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 1:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
When somebody doesn't like something that you like, there's a powerful temptation to assume that they don't like it because they haven't understood it. But in the end, understanding and enjoyment are orthogonal, and telling people that they don't like something just because they don't understand it just tends to piss them off.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:21 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
Public appreciation of art is on the decline, provided you define "art" as "art forms that used to be popular more than fifty years ago."
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:49 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
There have been a half-dozen stories in the past few weeks that looked interesting, but didn't even make it into the Links Dump for the day. Why not? Because the stories or studies were only available as PDF files. I...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:50 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
There's a nice write-up about the World Science Festival in the New York Times today: The second annual World Science Festival, a five-day extravaganza of performances, debates, celebrations and demonstrations, including an all-day street fair on Sunday in Washington Square...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:07 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
