Counting Atoms
Chad OrzelHigher ed, pop culture, politics, and random shiny things
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What Should Educated People Know About Science?
So, a couple of weeks ago I wrote a slightly peeved post about a push for the “Great Books” concept applied to science, and why I think that concept doesn’t really work. This grew out of a lot of discussion on ex-Twitter, mostly involving Z...
Quantum Optics/ Quantum Information Wrap-Up
Today is the first day of the Spring 2026 trimester, so I am mostly on to the Next Thing1, but I didn’t want to completely turn the page on the Winter term course without writing some notes about how it finished. I did a thinking-out-loud p...
Movie Weekend: Plastic Raincoat Double Feature
It was a big movie weekend in Chateau Steelypips, oddly featuring not one but two movies whose protagonists are first introduced wearing plastic raincoats. One of these even involved leaving the house to go to a theater!
If It's Already On Paper It's a Secondary Source
Over on ex-Twitter, Zena Hitz of St. John’s1 tweeted a sweeping call for a Great Books approach, which I replied to defending the existence of textbooks in STEM (screencap because petulant billionaires):
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I'm a physicist, professor, blogger, and author of popular science books.
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