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Physics, Politics, Pop Culture
"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: Conferences
Blogging has been light of late because I was in the Houston area for the weekend, at the annual meeting of Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society (think Phi Beta Kappa, but for science nerds). Every chapter is required...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 28 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 • 8 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 • 22 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
