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Sunday, September 28, 2025

What ails science

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DTLR rarely tackles political matters related to current events.  Unfortunately recent years have seen the erosion of public support and tru...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Environmental physics in the undergraduate physics curriculum

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Earlier this week, the U.K.'s Physics World featured an excellent  op-ed by Peter Hughes about environmental physics education.  He no...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Mathematical fluid dynamics, revisited

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In April I noted a piece in Scientific American about the work of 3 mathematicians on their work rigorously deriving the links among 3 lev...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Physicists and astronomers honored on US postage stamps - Update!

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Continuing the theme of my last post , let me call back a post from 2021, where I blogged about physicists and astronomers depicted on US p...

Physicists honored on US currency and coinage - Update!

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Back in 2022, I blogged about physicists depicted on US currency and coinage; at the time I could only identify two (Ben Franklin and Dr. S...
Friday, June 20, 2025

John R. Rice's "Future Scientific Software Systems"

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Today I stumbled upon the slides of a presentation, "Future Scientific Software Systems", presented at the first IEEE Computer So...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Peter Lax, 1926-2025

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As I noted just last month, DTLR does not dwell on mathematics very much, but a second exception seems just as warranted as my earlier post...