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Copenhagen (the play)
Now, when Copenhagen has turned Barack Obama into a double loser (Olympics & Climate lunacy), you may want to see Copenhagen, the play by Michael…
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Subdivisions of string theory are completely misunderstood by critics
Tetragraviton wrote an insightful blog post Most of String Theory Is Not String Pheno where he tries to clarify some brutal misconceptions believed b…
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Susskind, Hrabovsky: The Theoretical Minimum
Sean Carroll locates and praises a new book by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. (Funny, in the Czech spelling, Jiří Hrabovský is a rather famo…
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Klebanov and Maldacena about hyperbolic cows
In the new issue of Physics Today, Juan Maldacena and Igor Klebanov write a semi-popular "feature article" about the 11th anniversary of th…
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PBS: Albert Einstein: How I see the world
This is a PBS documentary about Einstein's life. Well, it's mostly about the political background, the violin, his relatives, Einstein as a s…
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Leonard Susskind: The black hole war
My battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappea…
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It's childish to vigorously fight against one sign convention
A vitriolic blog regularly attacking modern physics has chosen a new target. If you Google search for The West Coast Metric is the Wrong One, you wil…
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Only string theory excites Sheldon, after all
In Demons, Sunday School and Prime Numbers (S01E11), Young Sheldon's mother finds out he plays a demonic game, Dungeons and Dragons, and he is f…
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John Oliver funnily interviews Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking has demonstrated that he's a good comedian once again. John Oliver asked many important questions about the Universe, the alien l…
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Kenneth Wilson, RIP
Kenneth Wilson died from complications of lymphoma (a blood cancer) in Saco, Maine (where he and his wife were previously brought due to their love …
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David Gross on energy sources
... his monologue begins around 0:55. Of course, I agree with a pretty large portion of his comments. He is an optimist concerning the availability o…
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Kaluza and Weyl: adding \(U(1)\) to GR
Exactly 10,000,000 years ago, on November 9th, 1885, two mathematical physicists were born, Hermann Weyl and Theodor Kaluza . Click the hyperlink for…
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