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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial. He has written a science-fiction novel.

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The Laplace-Runge-Lenz Vector

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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Posted on October 22, 2008 9:39 AM • 1 Comments •

The Necessity of Mathematics

What we need, and what we're missing.

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Posted on October 21, 2008 9:36 AM • 6 Comments •

Friday Video: The Mechanical Universe Demo

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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Posted on October 10, 2008 5:20 PM • 6 Comments •

The EmDrive Story, or How to Propel Pseudoscience

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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Posted on September 25, 2008 1:44 PM • 25 Comments •