Why: I may or may not have started this blog to avoid ranting at my girlfriend so much.

What: Topics to be covered: physics, revolution, music, fear of physicists, Dutch and Japanese language randomness, literary analysis pyrotechnics, Satoshi Kon love, and AHHHHH!

Background: I’ve been reading Kurt Cobain’s journals and letters. They are inspiring, and I recommend everyone check them out. I’m also a regular reader of Pudgy Indian (2) and Of Death and Conscience, and I realized, those two (love)birds really made me want to get my thoughts down. Plus, if my mom is a a radio personality, why can’t I put a few things out into the public sphere as well?

Okay, to be fair, I’ve already done that a bit. My thoughts on my experience as a physics student, a Black woman in physics/academia, and an advocate for the underrepresented in the sciences can be found on Cosmic Variance and Backreaction.

Here, I intend touch on the subjects mentioned in those blog entries, but that won’t be all of The Disordered Cosmos.

The Name: The name has a few different sources of inspiration.

  • Carl Sagan. If you haven’t read any Carl Sagan, you are missing out on a source of profound humanist and scientific inspiration. Not only was he conscientious about pushing humanity to be at its best, but he found ways to do that through damn good expositions on physics and astronomy.
  • A yet to be published bit of work that I may or may not admit to having done.
  • The world seems pretty chaotic eh?
  • Replace “chaotic” with “out of order”
  • Replace “out of order” with “broken”
  • woo word association. (random)