I used to do regular round-up posts collecting links to my Forbes stuff on ScienceBlogs, but I got out of the habit here. It’s probably a worthwhile enterprise, though, so I’ll try to re-start it, beginning with a giant backlog-clearing post collecting stuff from January, February, and March of 2018:
- We Need More Scientists As Public Intellectuals: An argument that it’s not actually ridiculous to put Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson in the “public intellectual” conversation.
- The Physics of a Crazy Finnish Sled: A little video analysis to determine the speed of my kids on a ride at Lapland Lake.
- Why Vacations Are Essential For Physics: Some of the greatest breakthroughs in quantum physics were made by physicists taking time away from the office.
- How Does Mass Affect Luge?: Another look at the physics of a Winter Olympic sport.
- What We Do and Don’t Understand about the Physics of the Winter Olympics: The classical physics of bodies in motion is well understood, the slipperiness of ice not so much.
- Why Do Interpretations of Quantum Physics Matter?: A defense of the importance of studying the foundations of the theory.
- Why Do We Think Quantum Mechanics Is Weird?: Some thoughts on the emergence of classical rules from the quantum ones that govern everything in the universe.
- The Weirdest Thing About Quantum Physics: The phenomenon that most confounds our classical intuition.
- What Quantum Computing Is Really Good For Right Now: A look at a recent experiment in quantum simulation.
- The Quantum Physics of Vampires: A very silly attempt to invent a quantum process that would explain vampires being destroyed by sunlight but not artificial light.
- What Do We Picture When We Want Pictures of Physics: Some snide commentary on stock photos tagged “physics.”
So, yeah, that’s a bunch of stuff. I’ll try to get back to doing these round-ups monthly, so we don’t have quite so large a links dump next time…