Angry Physics

Presenting the "other" side of academic physics, where people backstab and give lousy talks. Where people are sometimes lazy or incompetent, and the best don't get the credit or the job. From the perspective of someone lucky enough to have landed a tenure-track professorship.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Armenian cosmic ray science

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Interesting arcitle with pictures in the NYT about an old cosmic ray detector in Armenia maintained by a skeleton crew.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Death of journalism?

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I'd imagine most, if not all, readers of this blog recognize the name Dennis Overbye and therefore might find this somewhat personal sto...
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Friday, July 06, 2018

Spiders fly via electrostatics

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Interesting article on the spiders' ability to detect electric field and use it to propel themselves in air.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Black Hole Apocalypse

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I just happened to see that my DVR recorded a new Nova special, Nova: Black Hole Apocalypse . It's hosted by Janna Levin, a physicist wh...
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Friday, February 16, 2018

Physics in the News and Olympics

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There are two kinds of people in the world (I have a number of these but of course can hardly remember more than one at a time): those who ...
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