hop, skip and a jump
If invention is the mother of necessity, it's not surprising that times of war should give rise to innovative technological breakthroughs. Such was the case …
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so you want to be a science consultant
We are reminded that we have been remiss of late in passing on nifty book recommendations. So let me heartily recommend the just-released Lab Coats …
hot blogoversary linkage
I've been so busy the past couple of weeks that I missed an important event: The 5th "blogoversary" on February 5 of Cocktail Party Physics! …
the nays have it
It's a truth secretly believed, if not universally acknowledged, that "user reviews" on Amazon rarely provide much insight into the value of the work being …
growing pains
A few months after I started Cocktail Party Physics in 2006, I was asked to join the then-relatively-new SEED Science Blogs. It was tremendously flattering …
mercury rising
Poor Jeremy Piven. First, the Emmy-award-winning Entourage star made headlines in December after he bowed out of the Broadway run of David Mamet's Speed the …
daring to be extraordinary
Imagine that you are on the board of directors for a major corporation, or nonprofit organization, or physics department, or other such entity, and you …
klimate kerfuffle
Jen-Luc Piquant is tres, tres fache at the moment because a group of unprincipled global warming denialists is spreading lies about our beloved American Physical …
image problems
Got an hour to spare this fine Labor Day weekend? Head on over to Bloggingheads TV to catch my "diavalog" with fellow physics history buff …
just don’t quote me
There’s a fascinating discussion over at Tara’s place regarding scientists and their frequent reluctance to answer interview requests from the media. I commented on this …