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). […]
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 […]
I’ve been seeing a lot of friends and family over the last week during the Winter Break. One of my friends presented me with an email – it’s unclear whether they wanted me to read it and agree with it or read it and debunk it. It was a chain […]
The best part about Christmas when you’re and adult is reliving the ones of your youth through the fresh eyes of your nephews. Same toys, new generation. You go, Santa!
Facebook recently added a “Your 2012 Year in Review” feature. It claims to show you the “20 biggest moments” in your life in 2012. It sucks. In no way did it capture anything that was important in my life this year. Why? Well, first and foremost, I don’t post strongly […]
Dear Mayan Preppers, I hope that the depth of your foolishness is apparent. I hope that the shame and embarrassment you feel is so great that it is like looking up from the bottom of a well and seeing only a pinpoint of light at the top. What is that […]
[Author’s Note: thanks to Ray and Luke for their excellent comments. I’d like to note that, while I leave this post up for now, I don’t agree any longer that gun licenses are a good proxy for gun ownership. There are other studies now available regarding things like “stand your […]