Another week, another set of posts at Forbes to link here:<\/p>\n
— Why Do Solids Have Energy Bands?<\/a> A conceptual explanation of why putting together lots of atoms with electrons in well-defined energy levels leads to a solid with electrons filling broad energy bands.<\/p>\n — This Is The Key Distinction Between Magic And Advanced Technology<\/a>: Following up a fun panel at Readercon, and how the “magical thinking” involved in my grad school lab is distinct from real magic.<\/p>\n — What Submarine Navigation Can Teach Us About Building Luxury Prison Tunnels<\/a>: The editor at Forbes sent email asking if anybody could talk about the science of that Mexican drug lord’s escape tunnel. I used that as an excuse to talk about gyroscopes and accelerometers and why the Navy funds atomic physics.<\/p>\n — Scientists Should Work The Hours When They Work Best<\/a>: Science<\/em> did another career advice thing that pissed people off, about how young scientists should work 16-hour days to make sure they get noticed. In response, I talk a bit about my experience with late nights in the lab, and how those are better viewed as True Lab Stories than career advice.<\/p>\n So, there you go. Another week in the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another week, another set of posts at Forbes to link here: — Why Do Solids Have Energy Bands? A conceptual explanation of why putting together lots of atoms with electrons in well-defined energy levels leads to a solid with electrons filling broad energy bands. — This Is The Key Distinction Between Magic And Advanced Technology:… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: Condensed Matter, Magic, Navigation, and Late Nights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,6,7,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogs","category-forbes-recap","category-physics","category-science","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}