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Graduated In Another Universe

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:47:13 -0700

My advisor for the few months I had at Union wrote a short post about the physics graduates this year (the year I would have graduated). I'm sure I hung out with a couple people in that group, not that I can put any faces to names at this point, a...

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This Has Me Excited:

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:50:34 -0700

I picked up my physics text for my summer class on half.com for around 1/3 of the original cost. And it really is in like-new condition. Also, the postal service supplied me with 4 pamphlets on why money laundering through the USPS is bad. I hande...

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lolquarks

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:47:02 -0700

I have a bunch of posts in perpetual draft form so I digress from them with some lolcat/physics humor. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you lolquarks:

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Not Even Wrong Blog

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:14:28 -0700

Peter Woit is the author of Not Even Wrong, the second book I've read on the failures of string theory and he's got my new favorite blog because of this line: "For up-to-the-minute news about the Higgs, far better informed than any media source c...

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Quantum Physics is Cool Because...

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:33:28 -0700

It helps plants transform solar energy to chemical energy with near-100% efficiency.

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Summer Classes @ Berkeley

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:42:38 -0800

I finally signed up for this summer course at Berkeley. Summer courses are easy enough to sign up for, I'm a student at CCSF at the moment so I'm eligible as a visiting student to take a class there during the 7-week summer sessions. It's a hard-c...

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QotD: Totally Obsessed

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:45:27 -0800

What is your current obsession(s)? Submitted by eijsr. Quantum Physics (those are some really great lectures but they'll be a repeat to you if you've read QED)

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Thinking with your Large Hadron Collider

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:23:31 -0800

I have a large backlog of podcasts from NPR's Science Friday series but an episode came up this week called High Energy Physics and being interested in learning everything I can about physics I skipped about two weeks of old podcasts just to liste...

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Book List and a Physics Group!

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:16:13 -0800

QED, done. Really, truly fascinating stuff. I'll probably come up with questions over the next week or two so I'm keeping it in my bag so I can look stuff up. Also joining the bag is the next lesson, The Trouble with Physics. Also interesting con...

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Words, Words, Words.

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:47:15 -0800

Amazon is so great. I ask for books and they send them to me. In the mail today: The Trouble With Physics is a newer hardcover (I haven't bought a hardcover new in years) about stagnation in the realm of physics and the author's dislike of strin...

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