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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...

The Necessity of Mathematics

What we need, and what we're missing.

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,...

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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