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2013-06-23 23:48Tragedy of Great Power Politics? Modeling International War
2013-01-20 22:52Re-evaluating the values of the tiles in Scrabble™
2013-01-01 19:09The Skeleton Supporting Search Engine Ranking Systems
2012-11-29 22:58When will the Earth fall into the Sun?
2012-10-27 19:07Creating an Earth
2012-08-04 04:56A Curious Footprint
2012-07-24 22:32A Homemade Viscometer I
2012-06-26 11:10Batman, Helicopters, and Center of Mass
2012-06-05 00:50Tales from the Transit of Venus
2012-05-26 21:28How Cold is the Ground II
2012-05-18 00:20How Cold is the Ground?
2012-04-22 19:34End of the Earth VII: The Big Freeze
2012-04-22 15:12Earth Day 2012: Escape to the Moon
2012-03-29 01:27Money for (almost) Nothing
2012-03-14 15:13Pi storage
2012-03-14 14:16Calculator Pi
2012-03-14 12:20A Clarification
2012-03-14 11:52Pi-rithmetic
2012-03-14 08:35Moving Pi-ctures
2012-03-14 08:22A Very Small Slice of Pi
2012-03-14 03:14Primes in Pi
2012-03-12 00:57F-91 Revisited
2012-03-06 14:37Proofiness: A look into how mathematics relates to American political life
2012-02-12 22:00Time Keeps On Slippin'
2012-01-02 20:02The Stars Fell on Abe and Frederick
2012-01-01 20:46How Long Will a Bootprint Last on the Moon?
2011-12-13 17:36Report from the Trenches: A CMS Grad Student's Take on the Higgs
2011-11-06 23:22Physics Challenge Award Show II
2011-11-05 01:25Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!
2011-10-31 22:30Physics Challenge Update
2011-10-03 00:48The Linear Theory of Battleship
2011-09-05 14:16Physics Challenge II: Marty McPhysics
2011-08-30 23:49A Tweet is Worth (at least) 140 Words
2011-08-22 23:44Futurama Physics
2011-08-03 03:24Fun with an iPhone Accelerometer
2011-08-01 01:30Physics in Sports: The Fosbury Flop
2011-07-18 11:33Grains of Sand
2011-07-10 22:07Lifetime of Liquid Water
2011-07-03 11:52Coriolis Effect on a Home Run
2011-06-28 00:19Counting Critters
2011-06-01 16:34Day in the life of Clicky
2011-05-31 11:36Clicky Data v1.0
2011-05-31 00:07Clickin' the Night Away
2011-05-05 21:06Anatomy of an Experiment I - The Question
2011-04-22 13:11End of the Earth VI: Nanobot destruction
2011-04-22 10:30Earth Day Special: Post-Apocalyptic Literature
2011-04-22 09:42End of the Earth V: There Goes the Sun
2011-04-22 07:54End of the Earth IV - Shocking Destruction
2011-04-08 13:52Matt Raises Clicky From the Dead
2011-04-07 21:42A Sense of Scale (in Dollars and Cents)
2011-04-04 22:39Collective Wanderings
2011-04-01 01:41Special Virtuosi Book Announcement!
2011-03-31 02:17Nickel Gnomes
2011-03-24 17:46Blown Away
2011-03-17 23:30Physics Challenge Award Show
2011-03-16 10:36Japan Nuclear Crisis
2011-03-16 00:35Apologies + Saturn!
2011-02-07 12:37Fun Fact: Lebron James Plays Basketball
2011-02-06 12:55Problem of the Month: Gilligan Physics
2011-02-06 00:47Life in the Infrared
2011-02-04 16:44Free data set of the month: Imaging Spectroscopy
2011-02-03 19:50Exploration of Cameras I
2011-01-30 17:22The Magnetar Credit Card Swipe
2011-01-27 22:41Falling Ice
2011-01-13 16:29Darts
2011-01-03 23:52Holiday Hidden Message Revealed
2010-12-31 14:42Benford's Law
2010-12-24 13:05Holiday Hidden Message
2010-12-18 17:33A Buffoon's Toothpicks
2010-12-15 02:01Problem of the Week #3: Solution
2010-12-09 22:34The Law and Large Numbers
2010-11-29 18:51Your Week in Seminars: Short Thanksgiving edition
2010-11-23 17:46Problem of the Week #2: Solution
2010-11-22 11:12Your Week in Seminars: One for Two Edition
2010-11-22 03:53Problem of the Week #3
2010-11-14 16:30Problem of the Week #2
2010-11-14 12:38Pet Projects
2010-11-08 15:46Your Week in Seminars Dark Edition
2010-11-05 19:39Problem of the Week #1
2010-11-01 17:58Your Week in Seminars: Conformal Edition
2010-10-25 11:56Your Week in Seminars Fermionic Edition
2010-10-21 14:32Paradigm Shifts 3: With a Vengence
2010-10-18 12:50Your Week in Seminars Intro Edition
2010-10-16 00:50Four Fantastic Books (3 of which are free)
2010-10-10 14:41Caught In The Rain II
2010-09-28 02:56Beards and Pulsars
2010-09-19 23:55Paradigm Shifts 2: Paradigm ShiftER
2010-09-19 16:52Breaking Intuition
2010-09-14 20:06Visualizing Quantum Mechanics
2010-09-12 23:04Microseconds and Miles
2010-09-08 21:48Quantum Chess!
2010-09-07 23:01Paradigm Shifts 1
2010-09-02 16:32Remembering two things
2010-09-01 22:53Caught In The Rain
2010-08-14 21:16Ringing A Bridge
2010-08-12 17:23Terminal Velocity 2: A Theorist's Experimental Experiment
2010-08-11 14:04Teminal Velocity
2010-08-06 11:32The Wrath of Blotto
2010-08-03 21:20Steak Dinner
2010-07-24 23:54On the Death of Karl Schwarzschild
2010-07-20 23:24Something Bugging Me
2010-07-01 23:48Zombpocalypse
2010-07-01 23:44The Impossibility of Why
2010-06-19 15:50Life as an Experimenter - Reflections
2010-06-18 13:49Life as an Experimenter - Day Three
2010-06-18 01:57Life as an Experimenter - Day Two
2010-06-17 13:53Life as an Experimenter - Day One
2010-06-16 03:20How Long Can You Balance A (Quantum) Pencil
2010-06-08 01:30My Pepsi* Challenge
2010-05-31 13:12Memorial Day Distractions
2010-05-30 13:42Cryopreservation
2010-05-26 03:17I was born on Wednesday
2010-05-25 23:29Why is the Grass Green?
2010-05-25 09:04Flying back
2010-05-25 03:03Fishy Calculation Followup & New Contest
2010-05-23 23:31Esoteric Physics I - The Hall Effect
2010-05-19 18:21Physics of Baseball: Batting
2010-05-19 16:03Cell Phone Brain Damage: Part Deux
2010-05-17 22:24Solar Sails III (because two just isn't enough)
2010-05-17 11:56Ask a Physicist: Volume I
2010-05-17 01:15Solar Sails II
2010-05-16 23:29Solar Sails I
2010-05-16 23:28Solar Sails Addendum I
2010-05-16 23:27Solar Sails Addendum II
2010-05-16 19:53Why Black Holes from the Large Hadron Collider Won't Destroy the World
2010-05-13 23:38Freezing in Space II - Turn On The Sun!
2010-05-12 22:26Freezing in Space I - Blackest Night
2010-05-09 00:24Human Radiation
2010-05-04 14:52Letting Air Out of Tires II
2010-05-03 23:46Physics as Magic?
2010-05-03 23:21Letting Air Out of Tires
2010-04-30 11:35The Beer Diet
2010-04-27 19:30Cell Phone Brain Damage... or not.
2010-04-25 20:29Some of the Best Advice You'll Ever Receive
2010-04-22 18:45End of the Earth Physics III- Asteroids!
2010-04-22 16:18Earth Day - Earth Units
2010-04-22 14:29Nobody Really Gets Quantum
2010-04-22 14:26End of the Earth II - Blaze of Glory
2010-04-21 22:22Laser Launching
2010-04-21 16:31Laser Gun Recoil: Follow-up
2010-04-21 00:38Q Factors
2010-04-17 16:25The End of Earth Physics I
2010-04-16 21:27Entropy and the Arrow of Time
2010-04-16 16:36Physics for non-physicists
2010-04-15 20:22Onsager's Tour de Force
2010-04-15 17:30Another Reason Why The Core is Stupid
2010-04-14 02:21Locating the Sun Photo
2010-04-13 17:18The malleability of theory
2010-04-13 15:33Bubbles!
2010-04-11 01:08On the Nature of Many Penny Systems
2010-04-09 17:42On the Superposition of Hip and Hop
2010-04-09 14:26Fishy Calculation
2010-04-08 23:16Would a laser gun recoil?
2010-04-08 13:28Ask a Physicist
2010-04-07 20:56Lessons in Prohibition: One
2010-04-07 19:25Falling water - hot or cold?
2010-04-07 16:01Railguns
2010-04-06 10:37LaTeX Test
2010-04-06 00:37A New Beginning