Physicist at Large

My next reading will be Book 7 of the Book of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham , an Arab scientist of the 10th and 11th centuries.  I read the firs...

I'm not sure I agree with everything in this article from the latest American Conservative , but one needn't agree  with all of it t...

1) Anderson notes that physicists are the shamans of our day, charged with telling a secular world what the ultimate answer to life, the uni...

I'm reading More and Different , a collection of essays (of varying length and, sadly, readability) by Nobel-winning solid-state physici...

I recently read Richard Hofstadter--An Intellectual Biography by David Brown.  For some reason I didn't feel like blogging it.  But a f...

I was not aware that the Jesuits were operating schools in China and moving in Chinese astronomical circles in the 16th century. Good job, F...

Two quick thoughts on chapter 11: Bala finally lists an impressive roster of Chinese technologies that reached Europe in the late Middle Age...