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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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"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: 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: 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: 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: 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....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:42 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
The Digital Cuttlefish looks at the Archie comics, and waxes poetic: Two paths play out in a comic book, When Archie walks down memory lane "The road not taken" is the hook; So now, the writers take a look And...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:34 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SF
Over at SciFi Wire, the house magazine of the Polish syphilis channel, Wil McCarthy has a piece with the eye-catching headline "Is Mysticism Overtaking Science in Sci-Fi?" What really excites me right now--and not in a good way!--is the recent...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:12 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
This book is, in some ways, a complement to Unscientific America. Subtitled "Talking Substance in an Age of Style," this is a book talking about what scientists need to do to improve the communication of science to the general public....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Uncertain Principles 11.08.2009
Neurotopia 11.09.2009
The Primate Diaries 11.09.2009
Stoat 11.07.2009
Tomorrow's Table 11.07.2009
