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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
Both Physics Buzz and the X-Change Files are noting the Imagine Science Film Festival starting tomorrow in New York City. As the Buzz notes: This is only the film festival's second year, but it's already attracted the attention of major...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:55 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Film critic A. O. Scott can't even be bothered to get the right names for the crucial scientific principles that he waves off as "complex and esoteric." This is a pretty sad showing, given that I can explain them to my dog.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:50 PM • 22 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
Category: Booklog
Robert Charles Wilson's novel of 22nd century America features a movie about Charles Darwin that might almost get US distribution today.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:24 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
My talk was Friday morning at 10am, on the title given above. This wasn't my choice-- when I volunteered to be on programming, I said some general areas that I'd be willing to talk about, and left it at that....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:14 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SF
The Worldcon program has been posted, but only as a giant, confusing PDF. I was getting cross-eyed trying to figure things out, so I ended up creating my own blank grid sheets, and making notes on those. The following is...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:48 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SF
To what extent does SF explore the meaning of science for scientists and create the ideas that our culture has of science?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:54 AM • 14 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: Pop Culture
If you're desperate for something to fill your Friday afternoon, and not the comment-leaving sort, you could do a lot worse than spending an hour and a half (give or take) with Chuck Klosternman and Bill Simmons in their two...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:26 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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