As my colleague Prof. Scalise likes to say, it’s stupid – and a little bit funny – when pseudoscience peddlers and scam artists try to use their nonsense on people that teach a class in fighting pseudoscience and scams. I got my first one today, in Twitter (of all places). […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
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Author’s Note (2013/12/6): A commenter noted I was off by 10 in my extremely conservative upper limit on the mass of zinc present in a lozenge. However, that estimate was so conservative as to be ludicrous – it’s not based on homeopathy, which Zicam claims to use to prepare their […]
NSBP (BlackPhysicists):Preliminary investigation of instructor effects on gender gap in introductory physics http://t.co/l7NPMiuL #physics #education http://twitter.com/BlackPhysicists/status/224504 (Sent via Seesmic http://www.seesmic.com) http://t.co/l7NPMiuL This was posted on Google+…
Here is a review of my favorite “blog moments” from 2012. Here’s to many more adventures of my pet hamster in 2013. I better have a bunch . . . otherwise, why write at all? Favorite Photos Here are some of my favorite photos from the year. Park Falls: Nature […]