This site hasn’t been very active recently, but I figured I could revitalize it a bit with a story of why I haven’t been making blog posts: for one thing, I’m preparing to spend a week and a half at the CTEQ summer school in Madison. I’m also involved in preparing a paper for publication (wooo getting published), which has involved a fair amount of proofreading and checking references.

There have been a couple of neat Mythbusters episodes recently which I would have loved to write about, including the one about surviving an underwater explosion. Unfortunately I don’t know enough about fluid dynamics and shockwave physics to say anything useful about it. (That may need to change) I’m also working on something about the older episode where they tested alternative solutions to a flat tire; there’s some interesting physics there, but the details haven’t been coming together as easily as I would have hoped.

And to top it off, I’ve been investing time in some other hobbies… which I should probably start writing about. So maybe that will provide some material to get this blog going again.

In the meantime, here’s a neat July 4th physics analysis on Dot Physics to amuse you.