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Thoughts on physics, politics, and pop culture, by a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, plus occasional conversations with his dog.
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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.
"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: Book Writing
I've been falling down a little in the area of shameless self-promotion, but I will be at Boskone this coming weekend, where I'll be doing three program items: Reading: Chad Orzel (Reading), Fri 19:30 - 20:00 This will be a...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:19 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
In a book that I read recently (either The Cloud Roads or The Serpent Sea-- I finished the first and immediately started the second), as some characters are traveling from one place to another, there's a passing mention that they...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: SF
As noted a while back, the Hugo Award nominations for this year were pretty uninspiring. The actual awards were handed out last night and, well, yeah. I wasn't all that wild about The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, but it at least...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Booklog
I've heard a bunch of good things about Dan Wells's John Cleaver series (a trilogy at the moment, consisting of I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster, and I Don't Want to Kill You, but the ending of the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 4:19 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Booklog
Lev Grossman's The Magicians never got a full entry to itself, but as I said when I mentioned it in this round-up post, I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a magical school novel about recognizable American teenagers attending Brakebills,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:06 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Yesterday was apparently Gender in Science day here, while the theme for today is Tab Clearance-- a couple of shortish posts about things that deserve more than just a Links Dump mention, but don't really cohere into any kind of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
Last week, I asked for advice on the show Fringe, because I need to be able to speak sensibly about it for the purpose of talking about parallel universes. I've been working through Janne's list of recommended episodes, watching on...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:58 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
I was just tagging this for the Links Dump, but I thought it deserved better. Fred Clark, blogdom's best writer on politics and religion, is putting together a book-like thing from his blog, and has posted the introduction to the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:13 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Booklog
One of the problems with a long-running series is that it accretes backstory as you go (unless, of course, you go the Rex Stout route and just pretend that time doesn't pass for the characters, even when you have the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:24 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Booklog
I'm not a huge Mieville fan, but the descriptions I read of Kraken sounded like good fun. As I like fun books, and a fun book written by China Mieville seemed sufficiently improbable that I just had to see it,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:59 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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