Physicist at Large

Honestly, the really ancient science, being so wrong, just doesn't appeal to me.  Yes, yes, I'm aware of the significance of Aristot...

My next book for this blog will be The Beginnings of Western Science by David C. Lindberg.  I'm only a couple pages in, but I like that...

I'm posting this a few months late, but free speech is on my mind since watching this debate last night. Also, God help me, I never t...

A while back I blogged about a study of reproducibility in experimental psychology.  A critique of the methodology has just been published ...

I tried writing a short story.  It got rejected.  I probably won't resubmit it elsewhere, because it was written for a rather unique aud...

In the previous post I noted that personality surveys are the easiest things in the world to game.  I closed with a link to an article on a ...

Oh, good! A recent update to federal education law requires states to include at least one nonacademic measure in judging school performan...