the Wood between Worlds

Blog of the world's worst scientist.

Saturday, June 25, 2022

God and the Law of Identity

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 I remember my first few years as a grad student, a professor reassuring my friend and I that no physicist ever gained true expertise in the...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

No One Should Care What Kate Turabian Thought About Style

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I have recently had to write and turn in my dissertation.  To do this, I had to adhere, at least somewhat, to the stylistic whims of Kate Tu...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Twelve Years a Grad Student

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I drew this on a white board at my  last school, in 2013.  Nine years later and I slayed the dragon. I recently finished my PhD in physics. ...
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Thursday, October 29, 2020

Trying to decode The Beginning Place by Ursula Le Guin

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 I recently reread this favorite of mine.  My copy is an old, worn paperback I purchased at a used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in Geo...
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Sunday, October 25, 2020

The witch of Endor proves mediums aren't real

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Once you know how cold reading works, it's basically impossible to take mediums, astrologers, palm readers, or any other kind of sooth-s...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Orcs are evil

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Orcs are a fantasy monster.  While Tolkien may have standardized them as the basic low-level mook hounding the protagonists, the idea of the...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

How I came to DCC and the Old School of Gaming

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Smaug, from the only feature-length adaptation of the Hobbit My dad is a Tolkien nerd who grew up in the 70s.  Therefore my dad played D...
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