Sitemap - 2023 - Counting Atoms
A Scientific Life, Minus the Science
"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
Small College Social Pathologies
Quick Hits: Temperature, Therapy, History, and Physics
Critical Thinking Is Downstream of Human Feeling
Rules and Norms, Three-Pointers and Icing
Confessions of a Professional Dilettante
Academia: Lawyers, Sons, and Money
Youth Sports and Gell-Mann Amnesia
What Would a Movie to Inspire Future Physicists Look Like?
Kelvin and Michelson and Historical Myths
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?
Self-Sustaining Oppenheimer Reaction
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
Talent Is Decisive in Fields We're Not Good At
The Joy of Talking Dumb Shit with Smart People
On Understanding and Explaining
Quick Hits: Parenthood, Nostalgia, Academic Summer, and Spiders
Quick Hits: Grades, Quantum Nonsense, Wholesome Americana
Quick Hits: Expertise, Academic Politics, Media, and Sports
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
Active Learning, and Learning to Adjust
A Tepid Defense of Elite Education
Top 40 Radio and the Punditsphere
Recent Weeks in Post-Cyberpunk: The Peripheral
Graduate Admissions Are Downstream of Faculty Hiring
Quick Hits: Academic Administration and the Super Bowl
Being Good Requires Being Better
Streaming Melodrama Report: Lockwood & Co.
Sometimes a Pair of Skis Is Just a Pair of Skis