Another month, another set of blog posts. This one includes the highest traffic I think I’ve ever seen for a post, including the one that started me on the path to a book deal:<\/p>\n
— The ALPHA Experiment Records Another First In Measuring Antihydrogen<\/a>: The good folks trapping antimatter at CERN have now measured the hyperfine spectrum of hydrogen, which is a good excuse to explain what that is and why it matters.<\/p>\n — 7 Suggestions For Succeeding In Science In College<\/a>: It’s the time of year when lots of people give unsolicited advice to the college-bound, and who am I to buck that trend?<\/p>\n — How To Look At The Sun Without Buying Eclipse Glasses<\/a>: How to make a pinhole camera, and the optics of how it works.<\/p>\n — Quantum Physics Isn’t Magic But Thermodynamics Seems That Way<\/a>: Looking at the microscopic physics of boiling water is pretty incredible.<\/p>\n — Why Do Basketball Shooters Put Spin On The Ball<\/a>: A look at the physics of why basketball coaches teach kids to “follow through” in order to put back spin on a jump shot.<\/p>\n The eclipse thing, as you can tell from the date stamp, was knocked together very quickly on the weekend before the Monday total eclipse. Later that evening, I went to look at how many people had read it, and was completely shocked– I guess Google picked it up really quickly, or something, but it got over a quarter-million views in the course of an afternoon. I was hoping it’d hit half a million, but even Mick Jagger can’t always get what he wants, so who am I to complain?<\/p>\n I was also very surprised at how well the thermodynamics post did, which I thought might’ve been a little too noodle-y, but it got a lot of pleased responses. Maybe there’s more of an audience than I thought out there hoping for someone to write at length about thermal physics…<\/p>\n Anyway, that’s August’s crop of posts. I’m not going to officially call a halt, but with the new academic year starting next Wednesday, posting is likely to slow wayyyy down. But then again, a lot of other things in the world suck at the moment, so blogging about physics might turn out to be a pleasant break…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another month, another set of blog posts. This one includes the highest traffic I think I’ve ever seen for a post, including the one that started me on the path to a book deal: — The ALPHA Experiment Records Another First In Measuring Antihydrogen: The good folks trapping antimatter at CERN have now measured the… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: August<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,6,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-blogs","category-forbes-recap","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}