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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Religion
Over at Physics and Physicists, ZapperZ notes a fairly useless interview with Guy Consolmagno, and suggests some alternative questions: 1. How old do you estimate the universe to be based not only on your observation, but also the consensus among...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:25 PM • 11 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: 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: 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: Booklog
Jo Walton has a very nice review of Karl Schroeder's Permanence over at Tor.com, which contains a terrific summary of what makes Schroeder great: The problem with talking about Permanence (2002), or any of Schroeder's work really, is that it's...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:28 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
