Prof Matt Strassler and global warming

Prof Matt Strassler who blogs at ProfMattStrassler.com made an excursion into our favorite topic which is an inferior scientific discipline ...

Nine physicists win $27 million in total

The first Milner fundamental physics prize for advances in delving into the deepest mysteries of physics and the universe One million dolla...

Have Muller or Watts transformed the AGW landscape?

I don't think so. But let me add a few more words. In recent days, we witnessed two major salvos in the climate wars as well as many min...

Permutations join twistor minirevolution

I have finally found the time to watch Nima Arkani-Hamed's excellent Strings 2012 lecture. Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassm...

Strings 2012, a few words

On Saturday, I added a link to the 51-minute public lecture by Edward Witten above ( Flash , PDF only ): click the screenshot. In the right...

Olympic Czechs w/ wellies: climate in London hasn't changed

According to The New York Times [+ pic ], the two most memorable aspects of the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony were Ralph Lauren's and t...

Watts up with that Anthony's major announcement?

About his project unrelated to health, FOIA, politics, society Update Saturday: Wow, the last paragraph in Wikipedia contains what I consi...

Greek triple jumper and political correctness

Voula Papachristou is the hottest among the top Greek athletes who defended her 2009 European gold a year ago (July 2011) in Ostrava, Czec...

Euler characteristic

Topology is an important branch of mathematics that studies all the "qualitative" or "discrete" properties of continuou...