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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...

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...

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,...

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