Inspired by Shawn’s post at Words and Other Things, I compiled a short list of video/audio lectures by famous dead philosophers. If you know of any famous dead philosophers that…
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The new CERN press release has finally come out, with the latest report on the (nearly-go-for-launch) Large Hadron Collider. No surprises, of course. The major new result is strong evidence…
Read moreCall for Suggestions: Greatest Physics Books of the Last 25 Years
As Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance has pointed out, Entertainment Weekly is weighing in on the Greatest Books of the Last 25 Years. Like Sean, I am a bit disappointed…
Read moreGet Started Learning General Relativity Online
General Relativity is the theory of gravitation introduced by Einstein in 1915, and developed throughout the 20th century. And you’ve decided you want to learn it. But why spend hundreds…
Read moreCould You Have Defended Galileo?
The Problem. When Galileo died in 1642, there were still two competing schools of free fall. The Galilean School upheld Galileo’s law of free fall, which may be posed either…
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