All About That Space
[lead: your guide to many different models for space in physics. one use: 3D world in which one could live or 4D, a set of …
Gravity matters
ticket to ride
One of my new favorite GeekGrrl blogs is The Mary Sue — a tantalizing mix of popular culture, technology, fashion, offbeat humor and weird science. …
here, listen to this while I’m away
While you're waiting for fresh blogging fare at the cocktail party (it's coming soon! we promise!), let me point you to the hot new diavlog …
coaster to coaster
Back in my Bohemian days as a struggling freelance writer in New York City — before I went all respectable and got engaged and stuff …
the not so friendly skies
Over the last six months, I have come to loathe George Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue." I used to love it. But that was before United …
balancing act
Things have been a bit quiet at the cocktail party this past week, I know. That’s partly because I wrote another "Random Walks" column for …
breaking the waves
Is it just me, or did Bloglines go completely bonkers over the weekend, posting and re-posting all the most recent entries on several different blogs, …
the importance of being nitpicky
Jen-Luc Piquant and I are all jacked up on caffeine and frustration-derived adrenalin at the APS April meeting here in Dallas, after a fruitless hours-long …
fear of flying
I was a voracious reader as a child (I still am, whenever my frenetic schedule permits). I’d read anything you put in front of me, …