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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: Electromagnetism
It makes you behave like the village clergyman in an early English physics textbook. It is interesting to note that Earnshaw himself was concerned with quite a different problem: the nature of the "aether", which we have talked about quite...
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Category: Physics
The story so far: New Scientist magazine publishes an issue with a heartbreakingly sensationalist cover, and biology experts across the Blogohedron get up in arms. (See Sandwalk, Ecographica, Evolutionary Novelties and Genomicron for sample critiques of both cover and content.)...
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This note is an edited repost of an item originally published at my old science blag while I was attending TAM 6. You can read the original for some complaints about Michael Shermer (and his infamous PowerPoint), but I'd rather...
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Category: Astronomy
What we need, and what we're missing.
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Here's computer-graphics guru Jim Blinn narrating a demonstration reel of the animation used in the esteemed television series The Mechanical Universe (1985). This Caltech production turned a freshman physics course into a video experience covering Newtonian mechanics, introductory calculus, electromagnetism,...
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To a scientist, having an open mind is a virtue. However, scientists still get upset when they find a story in a "science" magazine which crowbars open the reader's mind so far that you can hear the brains sloosh out...
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