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Recently I finished reading John Mearsheimer's excellent political science book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. In this book, Mears...

    Recently I have seen quite a few blog posts written about re-evaluating the points values assigned to the different let...

A lot of the research I’m interested in relates to networks – measuring the properties of networks and figuring out what th...

The time I spent making this poster could have been spent doing research. Since December 2012 is coming up, I thought I'd help the ...

A while ago I decided I wanted to create something that looks like the surface of a planet, complete with continents & oceans and all...

Lasers!   Credit: JPL/Caltech In less than two days, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) /  Curiosity  rover will begin its harrowi...

Stirring a bowl of honey is much more difficult than stirring a bowl of water. But why? The mass density of the honey is about the same as t...

A couple weeks ago, I came home after a long day at work looking for a break.  I thought to myself, “What’s more fun than physics? Batm...

Sad Old Sun Today is the transit of Venus, which, aside from being a totally rad astronomical event, is also the perfect excuse to tell ...