Counterintuitive Science & Gaslight Culture

by Asa Boxer

Image from the 1944 film Gaslight directed by George Cukor. Above, Ingrid Bergman playing the protagonist Paula, whose husband is futzing with the gas flow to the home lighting to make Paula think she’s going mad.

Today I’ll be taking you on a wee tour of a sciency article by Dr. Ethan Siegel on wavicles. I urge you to click on the link and take a look at Siegel’s self-branding. He presents as Dr. Woo himself, but he comes in a box with the following write up:

Ethan Siegel is a Ph.D. astrophysicist and author of "Starts with a Bang!" He is a science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges. He has won numerous awards for science writing since 2008 for his blog, including the award for best science blog by the Institute of Physics.

So he’s not just a science journalist. His blog is called Big Think, and the article in question is “The surprising origins of wave-particle duality”—which you can find here.

I can only scratch the surface by focusing on a few of the…