Another month, another collection of blog posts for Forbes:<\/p>\n
— The Physics Of Century-Old Mirror Selfies<\/a>: Back in the early 1900’s there was a brief vogue for trick pictures showing the same person from five different angles; this post explains how to do that with mirrors.<\/p>\n — Why Research By Undergraduates Is Important For Science And Students<\/a>: A reply to an essay talking up the products of undergraduate research projects, arguing that the most valuable part of research is the effect on students.<\/p>\n — What Does It Mean To Share ‘Raw Data’?<\/a>: Some thoughts on the uselessness of much “raw data” in my field to anyone outside the lab where it was produced.<\/p>\n — Breaking Stuff Is An Essential Part Of The Scientific Process<\/a>: Thoughts on how the most important year of my grad school career was the frustrating one in which I broke and then repaired everything in the lab.<\/p>\n — Measuring The Speed Of Quantum Tunneling<\/a>: A couple of recent experiments use a clever trick to look at whether there’s a time delay as electrons tunnel out of an atom in a strong electric field. Unfortunately, they get very different results…<\/p>\n I was a little disappointed that the photo-multigraph thing didn’t get more traction, but it was fun to do, so that’s okay. The quantum tunneling post did surprisingly well– I thought it was likely to be a little too technical to really take off, but it did. Always nice when that happens.<\/p>\n The other three are closely related to a development at work, namely that on July 1 I officially added “Director of Undergraduate Research” to the many hats I wear. I’m in charge of supervising the research program at Union, disbursing summer fellowships and small grants for research projects and conference travel, and arranging a number of research-oriented events on campus. This involves a certain amount of administrative hassle, but then again, it’s hassle in the service of helping students do awesome stuff, so I’m happy to do it.<\/p>\n Anyway, that’s where things are. Blogging will very likely tail off dramatically for the fall, possibly as soon as this month (though I already have one post up), as I have a book on contract due Dec. 1, and a review article due to a journal a month later. And, you know, classes to teach and research to direct…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another month, another collection of blog posts for Forbes: — The Physics Of Century-Old Mirror Selfies: Back in the early 1900’s there was a brief vogue for trick pictures showing the same person from five different angles; this post explains how to do that with mirrors. — Why Research By Undergraduates Is Important For Science… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: July<\/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":[8,5,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogs","category-forbes-recap","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}