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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.

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Walter Lewin's 8.01: Lecture 1

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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There Is Nothing in This World More Helpless and Depraved than a Man in the Depths of a Luminiferous Aether Binge

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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New Scientist Editorial Efficiently Dashes Hopes of Effective Communication

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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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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The Necessity of Mathematics

Category: Astronomy

What we need, and what we're missing.

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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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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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