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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
January 31, 2007
Category: Physics
Gordon Watts has deja vu: [Leaving a colloquium], I got stopped by another member of our department, who is a good friend of particle physics, and she said basically the same thing: all particle physics talks look the same. Some...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:21 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Basketball
Consider this a basketball Open Thread. Here, I'll give you a topic: The Final Four teams will be Florida, Ohio State, North Carolina, and ______?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:55 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
There are, in principle, good reasons to support Republican Party positions on just about everything, that do not require one to be dim-wittedly anti-feminist, hopelessly corrupt, corrosively cynical, or just plain barking mad.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:41 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: String Theory
Discover magazine has announced a contest: Your goal is to create a video that quickly and clearly explains perhaps the most baffling idea in the history of the world: string theory. And the best part is that you have just...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:09 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2007
Category: Links Dump
Norman Dale is almost 80, spells for junior faculty, and yet another God book.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:39 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Basic Concepts
The energy content of an object is a measure of its ability to change its own motion, or the motion of another object.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:53 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Television
I meant to post a comment on the new SciFi Channel series of The Dresden Files yesterday, but really, it's hard to work up much enthusiasm. It's not that the show was bad-- if it was bad, I'd have no...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:59 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: War
Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings points out an honest-to-God terrorist conviction that didn't make a big splash in the news. Guess why: GREENBELT, Maryland - Robert F. Weiler, Jr., age 25, of Forestville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to possessing a pipe...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 29, 2007
Category: Politics
Something my sister pointed out, based on driving from San Francisco to southern California, and subsequently confirmed by local observations (for example, in the parking lot on my way back from basketball today): When you see magnetic ribbons attached to...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 4:18 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Economics
Apparently, it's "economics of higher education" day here at Uncertain Principles. This time out, we have Steve Hsu on Larry Summers. (Update: I should also link to this post by Brad DeLong discussing the same article, with good stuff in...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:43 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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