Unscientific America: The Table of Contents | The Intersection | Discover Magazine 2009 promises to be a good year for science-y books by people with blogs. (tags: books science social-science society politics intersection culture) Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Is the right book winning the Hugo? "The problem we usually… Continue reading links for 2009-05-27
Author: Chad Orzel
Projectile Motion, Uncertainty, and a Question of Ethics
We no longer do what is possibly my favorite lab in the intro mechanics class. We’ve switched to the Matter and Interactions curriculum, and thus no longer spend a bunch of time on projectile motion, meaning there’s no longer room for the “target shooting” lab. It’s called that because the culmination of the lab used… Continue reading Projectile Motion, Uncertainty, and a Question of Ethics
links for 2009-05-26
At NIF, a Quest for Fusion Energy (or Maybe Folly) – NYTimes.com "The $3.5 billion site is known as the National Ignition Facility, or NIF. For more than half a century, physicists have dreamed of creating tiny stars that would inaugurate an era of bold science and cheap energy, and NIF is meant to kindle… Continue reading links for 2009-05-26
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in Languages I Don’t Speak
I’m still recovering from DAMOP, so no really substantive blogging today. I did want to mention a couple of recent developments regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. I think I mentioned a while back that the Portugese rights had been sold. Not long after that, the Korean rights were sold, and last week,… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in Languages I Don’t Speak
What Happens When You Publish a Book
Over at the Inverse Square Blog, Tom Levenson is doing a series of blog posts walking through the steps involved in getting a book published. Unfortunately, there isn’t a compact way to link to the whole series, but the posts to date are: Part 0: Introduction to the Series Part 1.0: The Proposal (with an… Continue reading What Happens When You Publish a Book
links for 2009-05-25
The Physics of The (Football) Wave : Built on Facts Why people at a football game are like atoms in a gas. (tags: science physics blogs built-on-facts) The Speed of Short People : The Frontal Cortex Modern neuroscience explains why I have so much trouble keeping up with short little guards. (tags: science neuroscience biology… Continue reading links for 2009-05-25
DAMOP Day 3-3.5
Friday morning at DAMOP was probably the thinnest part of the program, at least for me. Annoyingly, this was the day that my cold (or possibly allergies– whatever it was that had my head full of goo) let go, so I was the most awake and alert I managed for the entire conference. I watched… Continue reading DAMOP Day 3-3.5
Schrödinger’s Dog: The Movie
The release date for the forthcoming How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is December 22, seven months from today, and I got a look at some sample pages yesterday, so things are moving right along. To mark the occasion, and give you something to entertain you while I’m spending another day at DAMOP, I… Continue reading Schrödinger’s Dog: The Movie
DAMOP Day Two
Thursday at DAMOP was a little more broken up than usual for me at one of these meetings, because the nagging cold I have was bugging me more, and also because I needed to check my email a few times. There was still some neat stuff, though. The early-morning session was the toughest call of… Continue reading DAMOP Day Two
Thursday Baby Blogging 052109, Substitute Blogger Edition
Kate here, reporting that SteelyKid says, “Being sick is fun! I get to take baths at 10 o’clock at night, and play on nice soft towels, and have Mommy’s undivided attention all day long . . . “