Physicist at Large

Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

I want to read some cancelled books. The scolds? They scare me more than crooks!

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The estate of Dr. Seuss has decided to cease publication of 6 books because they carry images that offend modern sensibilities, and perhaps...
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Monday, March 1, 2021

New Medium post

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 I decided that my thoughts on less-academic matters should go to Medium.com, so here's a post on my frustration with COVID pessimists a...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

An article on ass-essment

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 I don't have time for an in-depth review of this article on assessment, but I do enjoy it. I never thought I'd read an article that...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Posting elsewhere

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 I'm occasionally putting some of my more polished writing at Medium.com. Here's an essay on why I don't like using education j...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Stillborn God: Rest of chapter 5

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 He spends some time discussing various liberal theologians, particularly in 19th century Germany. They were so sure that they'd come up...

Stillborn God, Chp. 4 and start of Chp. 5

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 Chp. 4 spends a lot of time on Hegel. I don't feel like I can summarize his entire summary, I'll just quote one point (regarding He...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Stillborn God, Chapters 1 and 2

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 My previous post was about the short introduction to The Stillborn God . I've since read the first two chapters. Chapter 1, "The C...
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Alex Small
Pomona, CA, United States
I'm an associate professor of physics at Cal Poly Pomona. My research interests are mostly in biomedical applications of optics (especially theoretical limits to superresolution, and also light scattering calculations), with some side interests in percolation theory. I am using this blog to chronicle my responses to books that I'm reading, particularly books about higher education issues. It's a way to work out issues in my mind.
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