I didn’t get to see either of the weekend’s games, other than about five minutes at the start of the second half of the championship, so I have very little to say. I haven’t even seen highlights, as I had to spend the morning at the hospital for an intensely boring test, and they didn’t… Continue reading World Cup Wrap-Up
Author: Chad Orzel
Why Do They Always Ask Tough Questions?
I was away at Readercon this weekend, which meant a fair amount of hanging out in a hotel bar socializing with writer types. One of whom was working on a novel that will have some hard-science elements to it, and had been looking for a physicist to ask questions of. Having just sat down, and… Continue reading Why Do They Always Ask Tough Questions?
Ask a ScienceBlogger: Easiest Question Ever
This week, Seed asks: On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep became the first successfully cloned mammal. Ten years on, has cloning developed the way you expected it to? Answer behind the cut:
The Chopped Liver Accelerator
I had errands to run this morning before work, which meant that I didn’t have time to queue up the usual handful of blog posts to appear during the day. I don’t want to have the site go dark, though, so I’ll throw up a post or two on my lunch hour, to note some… Continue reading The Chopped Liver Accelerator
Shop Days
The last couple of days at work have been Shop Days, with a fair bit of time spent in the department’s machine shop making holes in a metal box. This would, I’m sure, be the occasion of much hilarity among my old junior high shop teachers, as my ineptitude in both metal and wood shop… Continue reading Shop Days
Stop Thinking in Terms of High School Physics
p>Gordon Watts has some thoughts on a subject near to my heart: the ways we drive students out of physics. For the past 6 years I’ve taught various versions of the introductory physics survey course. It covers 100’s years of physics in one year. We rarely spend more than a lecture on a single topic;… Continue reading Stop Thinking in Terms of High School Physics
Seed on the Large Hadron Collider
My Corporate Masters have finally posted the piece that ran in the most recent print edition of the magazine, in which prominent physicists comment on the LHC. They’ve got predictions and explanations of why the LHC is interesting from an impressive array of people. Most of the answers are pretty predictable. Lisa Randall talks about… Continue reading Seed on the Large Hadron Collider
We’re Number 8,312!
As you’ve no doubt seen elsewhere on ScienceBlogs, Nature posted a little story about popular science blogs that included a list of said blogs, including a link to yours truly (tied with Deltoid for 11th in their list by Technorati rank order. My ranking has actually climbed slightly since then (#8312 accoring to my most… Continue reading We’re Number 8,312!
World Cup Update
I didn’t get to see much of the World Cup games over the weekend, as we were in Chicago at a friend’s wedding, with drinks and dancing and socializing, and various other things that were more attractive than watching penalty-kick shootouts. A few scattered observations all the same: Appearances: not always decceiving. See Wayne Rooney’s… Continue reading World Cup Update
Final DonorsChoose Notes
I had meant to post something or another yesterday, after we got back, but, well, I was still in vacation mode, and didn’t get around to it. I also didn’t queue up anything for today, thinking that I would write something last night, but I didn’t feel like doing that, either. You may get another… Continue reading Final DonorsChoose Notes