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December in Review

The Angst of Low Demand

Spacetime Santa Dynamics

A Scientific Life, Minus the Science

On Academic Misery

On Working Alone

"Mandatory Interesting Discussion" Is an Oxymoron

Deans and Lawyers and Congress, Oh My

My Moment as a Concert Promoter

Assessment Needs to Be Worth the Hassle

The Kids Are... All Right-er?

October and November Recap

Accepting Obsolescence

A Method, Not a Major

Small College Social Pathologies

Who's Afraid of Oppenheimer?

Bring on the Robot Cars

So Many Movie Nights...

Quick Hits: Temperature, Therapy, History, and Physics

Academia: On Structure

Big Wheel Keep On Turning

Critical Thinking Is Downstream of Human Feeling

Against "The Humanities"

September in Review

Rules and Norms, Three-Pointers and Icing

Against Tinkering

Confessions of a Professional Dilettante

History, Receding

Back to School

Welcome to Year Three

Academia: Lawyers, Sons, and Money

NYC Notes

Youth Sports and Gell-Mann Amnesia

(Most of) August in Review

What Would a Movie to Inspire Future Physicists Look Like?

Everything Has Popularizers

Kelvin and Michelson and Historical Myths

Meh Omens

Defining the Physics Mindset

Affective Polarization Has Broken Me

The Early Days of a Colder Nation

Scene Report: Positive Jam Festival

Affective Polarization and the Two Cultures

Two Cultures, Both Lacking Dignity

History of Laser Cooling: Part 1

What's the Greatest NBA All-Initial Team?

July in Movie Nights

July in Review

To Review or Not to Review?

Self-Sustaining Oppenheimer Reaction

The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov

Oppenheimer

Talent Is Decisive in Fields We're Not Good At

The Case for Accelerated Math

On Writing to Length

The Joy of Talking Dumb Shit with Smart People

On College Novels

On Understanding and Explaining

Affirmative Action Links Dump

So Many Movie Nights...

May and June in Review

The Kids Are... All Right?

Consensus By Attrition

The Sadness of Debate

Quick Hits: Parenthood, Nostalgia, Academic Summer, and Spiders

On Graduation

The Fantasization of Sports

Quick Hits: Grades, Quantum Nonsense, Wholesome Americana

Quick Hits: Expertise, Academic Politics, Media, and Sports

April in Review

On the Reality of Distant People

Two Cultures and the Academic Literature

Everything About College Admissions Is Less Bad Than You Think

I Should Like This, But I Don't

On Teaching and Research

Academic Quick Hits

Two Months of Movie Nights

March in Review

The Lessons of 1948

In Praise of 1948

Active Learning, and Learning to Adjust

A Tepid Defense of Elite Education

A Proposal for Social Physics

March Meeting 2023 Wrap-Up

Top 40 Radio and the Punditsphere

Weeks in Review

Recent Weeks in Post-Cyberpunk: The Peripheral

Graduate Admissions Are Downstream of Faculty Hiring

Quick Hits: Academic Administration and the Super Bowl

Capturing the Moment

Being Good Requires Being Better

January in Movie Nights

Weeks in Review

Streaming Melodrama Report: Lockwood & Co.

Hildy Johnson, I'm Not

Sometimes a Pair of Skis Is Just a Pair of Skis

First Weeks in Review

Coach Pip Calls It

Fluke Injuries and Living With Risk

New Year of Movie Nights

Miscellany: Comment on the End of the Leap Second