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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: 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: 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: Television
I've watched the first few episodes of "Flash Forward" more or less as they aired-- I've been DVR-ing them, but watching not long after they start, so I can fast-forward through the commercials, and still see it. I could just...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:21 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Television
Robert Carlyle plays a deeply creepy genius, who is basically the Shamwow of scientists. He solves thousand-year-old math problems! He translates ancient languages! He knows how to fix aeons-old carbon scrubbers! He soaks up six times his weight in liquid!
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:13 AM • 31 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: 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: Steelykid!
SteelyKid's part of the Colbert Nation.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:41 AM • 6 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: Physics with Emmy
I'm watching an episode of NOVA scienceNOW (eccentric capitalization makes it hip!), and Neil deGrasse Tyson is doing a segment on extrasolar planets. I'm only half listening, because I'm also trying to keep SteelyKid from trying to eat any of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
