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Built On Facts

By drorzel on May 25, 2008.

Every now and then, I look at the huge list of blogs and news sources in my RSS feeds, and say to myself "You really need to thin these out..." How can I make any progress, though, when there are always great new blogs being created?

The latest new blog to ctach my interest and increment my subscription total is Built On Facts by a grad student named Matt, which was linked to by Tom. It features everything from a discussion of shaky physics in the new Indiana Jones movie to discussions of the physics or marksmanship, to an entire category of worked problems, with equations and everything.

OK, fine, those all involve physics, so maybe it's not that big a range (what are you, some sort of stamp collector?). But the writing and the physics are both excellent. Check it out.

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