Welcome to the new home of Uncertain Principles. If you’ve been reading the site over at Steelypips.org, that probably means something to you. If you’re here for the first time, that might take a little explanation. I started a book log in August of 2001, and quickly got drawn into reading a lot of general […]
Month: January 2006
Read More Novels Month
I’m sort of marking time for a couple of days here, for reasons that will hopefully be explained soon. There are some interesting posts in the works, but I want to wait for a few more days. Of course, I need something to fill the time, and indirectly via Drink at Work, I find that […]
Science is Utterly Wet
Posting has been (relatively) light this week because today was the first day of classes. I’m teaching introductory modern physics (relativity and quantum mechanics), a class that I’ve taught before, but I’ve been putting a significant amount of time into revising my lecture notes, to keep the class from getting stale. This has led to […]
The New York Times Says God Is Dead
As you can tell from the date stamp, it’s now 2006, so the World Year of Physics is over. The people behind Quantum Diaries are shutting their blog collection down (though several of the diarists will be continuing on their own sites), and John “End of Science” Horgan pops up in the Times book section […]