Archive - Bucket Overflow

March 2024: lazy linkpost

Not Even Wrong, Lego, Siderea, Deleuze, attunement

Apr 1 •

March 2024

February 2024: Notes on "Notation Must Die"

Change of topic this month, no physics for once! Instead let’s have some music theory.

Mar 1 •

February 2024

January 2024: relativity cooked three ways

Unusual reframings of special relativity

Feb 1 •

January 2024

December 2023: Mermin on writing physics

Boojums, spoons and dog turds

Jan 1 •

December 2023

November 2023: The Trouble with Physics

Physics mythology and the String Wars

Dec 1, 2023 •

November 2023

October 2023: two nodes and an edge

I’m trying to win Substack’s “Dullest Social Media Preview Image” competition

Nov 1, 2023 •

October 2023

September 2023: more numbers in boxes

A toy model that looks a bit like a qubit if you squint a lot

Oct 1, 2023 •

September 2023

August 2023: let's try writing a newsletter again

"Season 3" of whatever this is

Sep 1, 2023 •

September 2021

August 2021: end of Season 2

Packing up the newsletter for a while and experimenting with a notebook blog instead.

Sep 1, 2021 •

August 2021

July 2021: Drawing Theories Apart offcuts

Bubble chambers and loops

Aug 1, 2021 •

July 2021

June 2021: excuse note

No newsletter, here are some blog posts instead

Jul 1, 2021 •

June 2021

May 2021: Internalisation

Vygotsky on inner speech and the relationship between thought and word

Jun 1, 2021 •

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