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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: Blogs
Two noteworthy things in the meta-blog category: 1) The 3 Quarks Daily science blogging prize nominations are up, and it's a great list of sciencey bloggy goodness. If you're looking for a way to procrastinate, you could kill several days...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I'm a little surprised that I haven't seen bloggers commenting on Tom Hanks's appearance on The Daily Show, in which he talks about CERN: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cTom Hanksthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesEconomic CrisisPolitical...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:47 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I'm speaking, of course, about this past weekend's Bloggingheads conversation between Jennifer Ouellette and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky. They both blog at Cocktail Party Physics, and Diandra has written The Physics of NASCAR. It's a good Bloggingheads, covering a wide range of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:07 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
Arts & Letters Daily had a link to a City Journal article about religious symbolism in science fiction, which attempts to claim that there has been a recent swing toward Christian symbolism in the genre (at least, in movie and...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:57 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SF
The nominees for this year's Hugo Awards were announced last night. The most important category is, as always, Best Novel: Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK) Little Brother by Cory...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:48 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
In an effort to wrest something positive from the smoking ruins of the fannish precincts of LiveJournal, a number of people (Kate included) have put together a community to raise money to provide financial assistance to fans of color who...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sports
It's March now, which means that we're at the absolute peak of the college basketball season. Small conferences have already started their tournaments, playing for the one shot those teams have of getting into the NCAA's. Big conference tournaments start...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:03 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Books
The winners of the American Physical Society's Science Writing Awards for 2008 were announced today: Ann Finkbeiner won in the Journalist category for The Jasons, her book about a secretive groups of scientists who work on classified problems for the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:48 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
On Saturday at Boskone, I gave a talk on the Many-Worlds Interpretation of QM. This was held up a bit by waiting for the projector to arrive (I was busy enough with other stuff that I didn't notice that I...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SF
Boskone, the Boston-area SF convention that Kate and I go to every year, is the weekend after next. Once again, I'll be doing a few panels and one talk. For those who might be attending, or who care about this...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:28 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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