Physicist at Large

I'm partway through Day 2 (mostly on relative motion) and bored.  Time to read some sci-fi.  Then I'll start blogging serious stuff ...

On page 63 things get interesting.  Salviati has spent a few pages talking about sun spots.  The purpose of this was that after dozens of pa...

I am a third of the way through the first of the four dialogues.  It consists largely of showing how cumbersome and inconsistent Aristotelia...

Given that my current reading project is a book that was actually banned on the grounds that it offended people's religious beliefs, I s...

After enjoying excerpts from Galileo's dialogues, I've decide that my next reading project will be the full text of Dialogue Concern...

A group of psychologists recently attempted to replicate 100 studies published in psychology journals in 2008.   The results are in , and t...

Like just about everyone else out there, I took narratives of spiraling student loan debt at face value.  Why?  I don't know.  I'm n...