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Okay… I know the following is no one’s first choice for a blog topic, but we gotta do this. It won’t hurt too much, I promise! The tentative release date for “Academaze” is a little over a month away. Melanie has demonstrated superhuman patience in working with me (thanks, Melanie!) and the collection is coming along nicely. This is
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Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be With You
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Days like today, when I have both a power lecture and a discussion section, leave me completely drained. Nearly 3 hours of talking and walking and prancing around with markers, writing on the board. I draw and derive everything on the spot, which helps with the pace of my delivery and with students taking notes, but it takes considerable
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I have always thought of myself as a diehard scientist. Yet, the older I get, the more often I ask, “What’s the point of all this, exactly?” And I find that the only things that quench, temporarily, this existential angst are works of art. Hearing a beautiful piece of music, seeing a really good movie, reading a well-written
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———————— * This joke is for everyone who’s ever loved (or hated) the quantization of total angular momentum, J. The z-component of total angular momentum is denoted by Jz. For a given j (the quantum number that characterizes the magnitude of total angular momentum as J=ℏ√j(j+1) ), Jz can have 2j+1 different values. * In case you don’t really follow pop-culture, the joke refers
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You know how November is the month for writing? NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) both happen in November. I blogged daily in November over the past few years, as it’s a great way to purge the metaphorical lactic acid from the “writing muscles” that were straining to make the late
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Apropos nothing, here are some webcomics I enjoy. These are all humorous, but I am also a sucker for beautiful art, so some of the selection reveals that. (I have also contributed to a couple of Kickstarter campaigns and artists’ Patreons. ) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal xkcd PhD Comics (obviously) Cyanide and Happiness (not for the
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h/t to Melanie Nelson of Annorlunda Books, who suggested that I make a comic based on this line from the “Academaze” manuscript: “[I]t is fundamentally impossible to have the right amount of preliminary data.”
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I drew the one below while I was waiting for Eldest’s turn at a music competition (he did fabulously, in case you are wondering). It will be an illustration in the upcoming book (“Academaze“).
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This past fall I submitted two NSF proposals within a few days of one another, to two different directorates. One proposal is better than the other. So, today I log into Fastlane, and both proposals are still pending, but the worse one shows to have a status update, dated today. I know this only means
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