Post-Doc Ergo Propter Hoc

Friday, 9 August 2019

The end of Post Doc Ergo Propter Hoc

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Since I have barely updated this blog in the last few years, this may not come as a surprise. I will no longer be writing posts on Post Doc ...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

Celsenheit-Equivalent Wind Chill

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During the recent and ongoing North American cold snap , I was reading posts from my friends in both Canada and the United States and realiz...
Wednesday, 13 December 2017

The Knot Untying Spectrum

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I recently investigated a fun little problem in knot theory, about what kinds of knots can be generated by partially untying a more complex ...
Saturday, 18 November 2017

Two new posts on PhysicsForums about DNA biophysics

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Ahoy readers, I've written two new posts on PhysicsForums summarizing some recently published papers on single-molecule biophysics. One...
Sunday, 22 October 2017

Applications of higher-order derivatives of position

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One of the first things we learn in physics is that velocity is the rate of change of position, acceleration is the rate of change of veloci...
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Monday, 9 October 2017

Traversing the Six Gaps of Hell

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[This was written in July 2017 for the MIT cycling team blog. The guy I sent it to left MIT shortly after and it was never uploaded, so I am...
Saturday, 16 September 2017

Extreme High-Speed Dreidel Physics

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(Warning: if you're viewing this post on a phone with limited data...you should probably leave before all the gifs load) Every Novembe...
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I am a Canadian physicist working as a post-doc at MIT. My research interests include the physics of DNA molecules, collapsing bubbles, and falling through the Earth. In this blog I'll talk about physics-related topics that I find interesting.
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