Good Blast at Powerpoint

I see a lot of Powerpoint and I do not think it has benefited my field, physics. When I was giving the important talks almost 20 years ago, they were on transparencies and each one held a single graph or diagram. They were large graphs which showed a lot of detail. I could spend a [...]

Quote of the Day

“Across the campus trees broke out in absurd petaled profusion. Life returned to life, sporting a spin, strangeness, and charm that Spiegel had never suspected.”
Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark
Richard Powers writes literary fiction. He tackles hard subjects and his writing is dense with allusions. He frequently writes about the intersection of art and science, which [...]