This week we are building off our ideas around the different representations of the cosmos we talked about in Week 9. We have now moved to the present day and are considering current research in cosmology and how that work is situated in society. This week we are reading about…

This week’s blog post is a synthesis exercise in preparation for your mid-semester essay. Before completing this blog post assignment, go to D2L Course Documents and refamiliarize yourself with the Mid-semester Essay Assignment. Your goal in this Week 8 post is to come up with three possible starting points for…

The readings this week have a thread between them of culture influencing how physics is practiced and the behavior and attitudes of physicists — culture of living and working at Los Alamos during the development of the atom bomb, culture in Traweek’s research on particle physicists, and a (potentially different)…

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