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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
Category: Physics
I noticed a while back that the video recordings from Walter Lewin's introductory physics lectures are available via the Internet Archive's movie collection, which means that they can be embedded in the Blogohedron. Click here to open a transcript of...
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Category: About this Blag
While I'm away, amuse yourselves with a new AlpineKat rap video.
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Category: Physics
Maybe Brian, gg and I need to expose the problem of "textbook cardboard" in comic-book format....
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Category: Physics
First, he came for the linguists. The sure-to-be-a-hit movie Angels and Demons just recently opened in Geneva, and a flock of physicists descended upon it. (I feel like we need a better collective noun for physicists, the way a group...
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Category: Physics
How do the detectors used in high-energy particle physics work? Anadi Canepa gives an introduction at Quantum Diaries: Both ATLAS and CMS are so called "multi-purpose" detectors as measurements taken are suitable for a broad physics programme (some of which...
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Category: Pictures
The bad news is that the sky has opened. The good news is that a physicist was there with a camera. (Going to be busy again for several days. Papers in the pipeline, hurrah. . . .)...
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Category: Bibliophilia
Robert P. Crease, chairman of Stony Brook's philosophy department, has an essay in the latest Physics World which puzzles me. He's talking about what happens when writing about physics for the public, which is a subject known to make me...
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Category: Physics
BATAVIA, IL — The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory was forced to shut down operations early Tuesday morning due to an attempted coup by escaping high-energy particles, reports a source at Fermilab.
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Category: Popularization
Occasionally, I scope out the ScienceBlogs.com home page to see if anything happens to be happening there. "The elite national papers remain the go-to source for coverage of science..." Logically, then, the Boston Globe is not an "elite national paper"....
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Category: Bad Math
Dave Bacon points to a retrospective piece by the American Physical Society, "The Top Ten Physics News Stories of 2008", and he indulges in a little nitpicking. Well, N can play at that game! Look at this summary, under the...
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