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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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Physics Makes a Toy of the Brain

Can physics tell us about ourselves? To phrase the question more narrowly: can the statistical tools which physicists have developed to understand the collective motion of large agglutinations of particles help us figure out what our brains are doing? If...

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Posted on November 27, 2008 1:06 PM • 6 Comments •

On the arXivotubes: Spatial Ecology Edition

The evolution and ecology of spatially distributed populations is a confusing field to study, since nobody seems to be fully aware of the work which other people are doing. In a way, this mirrors the systems being studied: spreading a...

Posted on October 29, 2008 9:29 AM • 0 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 •