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Holiday Weekend Movie Nights

Pre-Holiday Wrap-Up

Cruise Report

Pre-Vacation Weeks in Review

Persuasion and Partisanship

Winter Solstice Book Recommendation Post

Many, Many Movie Nights

Why Do We Assign Writing?

Wormhole to 2006

Another Term Bites the Dust

Thanksgiving 2022

Free Bird

Weeks in Review

College Is Not What You Think It Is

On Expertise and Priorities

This Week in Movie Nights

The Kids Are Alright

The Mid Election

Many Movie Nights

Twitter and Midterms and Day Job, Oh My

Most of a Month in Review

Massive Movie Nights Post

What Sports Means to Me

Sports in These Times

Every Class Is Some Student's Orgo

Why I'm Not Writing About This Year's Nobel

Never Tell Me the Odds

Weeks in Review

Rankings and Randomness

Physics Is a Liberal Art

Two Weeks of Movie Nights

Less Symbolism, Please

Annual Plea for More Forward-Looking Nobel Coverage

51 First Days

These Weeks in Media Nights

Weeks in Review

Goin' Down to Hadestown

Worry Less About Cheating Students

Two Cultures on the First Day of Class

Is the Gender Distribution in the Humanities Cause for Alarm?

Several Weeks of Movie Nights

Week and a Half in Review

Answering the Small Questions

Re-reading Sandman

Covid in Review

Inflation-Adjusted Scholarship

Technological Progress and The Flying Car Problem

Weeks And Weeks in Review

Covid Binge-Watching Report

Review: The Founders Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett

All Covid and No Work Makes Chad Something Something

This Week in Wholesome Americana

Stop Trying to Work the Refs

On College Pricing

Book Review: In The Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan

This Week in Movie Nights

The Fine Lines of Contemporary Art

Pop-Culture Archeology: White Men Can't Jump

The Grad School Experience

Two Weeks in Movie Nights

Weeks In Review

1113 Days

Coaching, Teaching, and Motivation

The Three Definitions of "Science"

Stranger and Stranger-er

My History With Cold Atoms

This Week in Movie Nights

Week in Review

The Optimism Deficit

The Vision Thing

On Overthinking Genre Fiction

This Week in Movie Nights

Weeks in Review

Stranger Thoughts

This Week in Airplane Reads

Quick Post-SciFoo Thoughts

On Fatherhood

Academia: Blame the Lawyers

The Academicization of Everything

Last Week in Movie Nights

Does Every Science Get "Big"?

Week in Review

The Physics of Stuck Bowls

The Superconducting Super Circular Argument

Flipped Admissions and the Collusion We Need

A Brief History of Punctuality

Recent Reading: Crazy Floridians and Space Miscellany

Sparse Weeks of Movie Nights

Weeks in Review

Academic Odds and Ends

On Fallibility

Most People Aren't Authors

End of an Era

The Rhetorical Power of Meritocracy

This Week in Double Movie Nights

Week in Review

Walking in San Francisco

Cycles and Predictions

On the Teaching of (Lab) Writing

Bicycling and Quantum Measurement

Week in Review

Last "Live" History of Timekeeping Event

Sanity Management Tips from an Ex-Chair

On Deadlines

Weeks in Review

Walking in Modesto

On Simple Tastes

To Summarize the Summary of the Summary, People Are the Problem

Last Week in Airplane Reads

This Week in Movie Nights

Week in Review: Vacation Edition

On Substack

Ability, Inclination, and Conversation Killers

Email, Social Media, and Toxic Flattening

This Week in Edgar Wright, I Mean, Movie Nights

Week in Review

The Persistence of Errata

The Demographic Dilemmas of Academia

All-Purpose College Advice

Recent Reading: The Maradaine Series by Marshall Ryan Maresca

This Week in Movie Nights

Week in Review

Soft in the Center

Cynicism on the Curriculum

Einstein's Legacy: Modern Physics All Around You

This Week in Movie Nights

Week in Review

Recent Light Reading

Institutional Paralysis Is the System Working

Imminent Death of the Academy Predicted

College Basketball vs. the NBA

This Week in Movie Nights

Weeks in Review

Daylight Saving Redux

TV Review: REACHER

Hard Numbers: Gender Balance in Physics Faculty

GIVE WAR A CHANCE by P.J. O'Rourke

Happy Birthday, Dad

A Modest Proposal for the Saving of Daylight

Hall Passes and Word Problems

Three Weeks of Movie Nights

Three Weeks in Review

Recent (Re)Reading

State of the State of the Union

Gen X Is Career Limiting

Quick Hits

Decision Point of the Moment

Horseshoe Theorem

Book Review: TERMINATION SHOCK, Neal Stephenson

Obligatory Super Bowl Thoughts

This Week in Movie Nights

Week in Review: The Promotion Continues

Book Review: WIN by Harlan Coben

Harvard Isn't a College

You Need to Be Lucky AND Good

This Week in Movie Nights

Book Release Week in Review II: UK Boogaloo

On Publicity

Please Plan to Get Back to Normal

On Expanding Expertise

This Week in Movie Nights

Book Release Week in Review

Analytical Skills Can't Save You From Silly News Cycles

Release Day!

This Week in Movie Nights

Week in Review

Authentically Toxic

On Modern Religions

My Completely Impractical Voting Reform Proposal

The End of The Expanse II: The Expansening

Week in Review

The Most Important Lesson Of The Pandemic Is That I Was Right About Everything

Why Does Particle Astrophysics Dominate Pop Science?

Book Review: MAJOR LABELS

"Critical Thinking" and School Re-Openings

This Week in Movie Nights

Holiday Weeks in Review

I Miss Ignoring People

Not THE Ending, but AN Ending

Winter Holiday Movie Nights

Base Rates and Loss Aversion