U.K.: energy smart meters will monitor your sex habits

Marc Morano has pointed out the following interesting article in the Guardian: Energy smart meters are a threat to privacy, says watchdog By...

Klaus vs Dallara on European citizenship

For days ago, the Center for Economics and Politics (CEP), a Czech libertarian think tank, organized a seminar called The Eurozone Sovereig...

Stop squark rumors and R-parity violation

At the beginning of this year,  Murray Gell-Mann as well as the rest of us were exposed to gossip about stop squarks seen at the LHC. In t...

On the importance of conformal field theories

Scale-invariant theories may look like a too special, measure-zero subset of all quantum field theories. But in the scheme of the world, the...

Modest Peter Higgs: yes, the boson is like Margaret Thatcher

Physics World offers us a 20-minute audio interview with Peter Higgs: Peter Higgs in the spotlight Among other things, he sensibly says that...

Why we should combine Higgs searches across experiments

Aidan Randle-Conde of the U.S. LHC blogs argues Why we shouldn’t combine Higgs searches across experiments . On July 4th, the CMS and ATLAS ...

CMS leak: Higgs cross section will be announced with a 30% error

The pirate at the top, next to the flags, opens the mobile format of this blog entry: try it. A member of the CMS collaboration has leaked t...

Murray Gell-Mann on testing superstring theory

A "Web of Stories" interviewer was under a visible influence of several crackpots who have polluted the science (and other) popul...

Microsoft Surface: serious about details of hardware

A few weeks ago, I downloaded Windows 8 Release Preview and tested it inside the VirtualBox : here's how . It's a great Windows ope...

Some totally healthy SUSY models

Matthew W. Cahill-Rowley, JoAnne L. Hewett, Ahmed Ismail, and Thomas G. Rizzo have looked at millions of phenomenological MSSM models (to be...

Climate skepticism is just being born in Brazil

Luis Dias from Brazil's former European headquarters kindly translates the essence of the video in the comments Rio de Janeiro has witne...

Feynman's 1986 Dirac Memorial Lecture

He talked about antiparticles, CPT, spin, and statistics You may watch those 70 minutes. Feynman starts by saying that Dirac has been his he...