{"id":11,"date":"2006-01-11T07:06:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T07:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/11\/begin-at-the-beginning-1\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T07:06:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T07:06:03","slug":"begin-at-the-beginning-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/11\/begin-at-the-beginning-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Begin at the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Welcome to the new home of Uncertain Principles. If you&#8217;ve been reading the site over at Steelypips.org, that probably means something to you. If you&#8217;re here for the first time, that might take a little explanation.<\/p>\n<p><P>I started a book log in August of 2001, and quickly got drawn into reading a lot of general web logs. In late June 2002, I decided to start a general-interest weblog, which I&#8217;ve been updating regularly for the last three and a half years. Recently, the nice folks at Seed were kind enough to invite me to join their ScienceBlogs project, leading to the site you&#8217;re now reading.<\/p>\n<p><P>The tagline of this blog has been &#8220;Physics, Politics, Pop Culture&#8221; from the very beginning, and that&#8217;s a pretty fair description of what I talk about. I&#8217;m a physics professor at Union College in New York, and I use this site to talk about what I do: physics research, physics teaching, and general academic matters, along with sports, movies, pop music, the occasional political rant, and anything else that catches my interest.<\/p>\n<p><P>If you&#8217;d like a quick preview of what to expect (or to re-live the glory days of my previous site), I&#8217;ve linked a few favorite posts over on the left:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2002_06_23_principlearchive.php#85192616\">What&#8217;s With the Name?<\/a>: The second post ever on Uncertain Principles&#8211; an explanation of the name, and a few thoughts on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2005_12_11_principlearchive.php#113452426185189498\">A Week in the Lab<\/a>: In December of 2005, I spent a week carefully documenting my day-to-day research activities as I worked on a particular project. This may be my favorite piece of blog writing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2004_09_19_principlearchive.php#109612214809257537\">Domestic Security: A Dialogue<\/a>: A conversation with my dog about the best way to protect the backyard from squirrel incursions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2002_08_18_principlearchive.php#85363091\">&#8220;Perfect Albums&#8221;<\/a>: A discussion of some records that I think are nearly flawless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2005_02_06_principlearchive.php#110778349309121481\">Poetry for Physicists<\/a>: Some thoughts on the interaction between science and the humanities in academia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><P>(If you&#8217;ve been reading for a while, and think I forgot something that ought to be in the &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221; list, drop me a comment and I&#8217;ll consider adding it.)<\/p>\n<p><P>As at the previous site, comments are open on all blog posts (I think it borders on dishonest to run a blog with no way for readers to comment). I envy the exceptionally lively comment community at Making Light, so I hope you&#8217;ll post comments on things that you find interesting, amusing, or annoying, and I do try to respond to comments (I&#8217;m pretty busy during the day, though, so I don&#8217;t always respond promptly). Please keep it civil, though&#8211; I reserve the right to edit or delete comments that are unproductively hostile.<\/p>\n<p><P>Anyway, welcome to the new digs. I hope you like what you find here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new home of Uncertain Principles. If you&#8217;ve been reading the site over at Steelypips.org, that probably means something to you. If you&#8217;re here for the first time, that might take a little explanation. 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