• How to study

    Updated: 2012-08-31 18:03:10
    This year i'll start the university(a little university in my country). I want to be a nobel prize. So what i have to do? I want to have a very very good theorical preparation. Can you help me...

  • Vacuum Expo 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:00
    Conference: 17 Oct 2012 - 18 Oct 2012, Coventry, United Kingdom. Organized by Xmark Media Ltd.

  • CS International 2013

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Mar 2013 - 5 Mar 2013, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • World Congress on Engineering 2013

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:00
    Conference: 3 Jul 2013 - 5 Jul 2013, London, United Kingdom. Organized by International Association of Engineers.

  • Industrial instrumentation 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 10 Oct 2012 - 11 Oct 2012, LIEGE, Belgium. Organized by CRM Group.

  • Gravity's engines: The other side of black holes

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 8 Nov 2012, London, W1S 4BS, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Institution.

  • Paradox: The nine greatest enigmas in science

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 25 Sep 2012, London, W1S 4BS, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Institution.

  • Winton Inaugural Symposium: Energy Efficiency

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:00
    Conference: 1 Oct 2012, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Organized by Prof Sir Richard Friend and Dr Nalin Patel.

  • arXiv Find: Reasons Not to Believe in the String Theory Landscape

    Updated: 2012-08-29 19:32:14
    Tom Banks has long been skeptical of the popular picture of the string theory landscape — the idea that there is some extremely large (10500 or more) number of phases of string theory, representing different ways to compactify the extra dimensions, and that all these phases are dynamically connected to each other, possibly by cosmological [...]

  • Neil Armstrong

    Updated: 2012-08-25 21:38:40
    Has died at age 82. Perhaps to honor his memory we can resolve as a society to continue to do inspiring things.

  • Bill Thurston

    Updated: 2012-08-22 18:41:39
    Just a quick note here to say how sad I was to hear (via Terry Tao’s blog) of the death yesterday of Bill Thurston, whose work, particularly on 3-manifolds, endeared him to mathematicians and physicists and resulted in the 1982 Fields medal. I’m certainly no expert on his work, but I encountered it first thirteen [...]

  • A Few Powers of Ten

    Updated: 2012-08-22 17:10:42
    Via the endlessly enjoyable It’s Okay to Be Smart, here’s a gif image that zooms in by about three orders of magnitude. (Not sure of the original source.) We start by looking at an amphipod, a tiny shrimplike critter about a millimeter across. For some reason (vanity?) it’s decorated by an even tinier diatom, a [...]

  • The Invader

    Updated: 2012-08-19 22:53:31
    Opening panels of a wordless and moving story about a young Space Invader. Worth a click. Via Zack Stentz.

  • LHC News

    Updated: 2012-08-17 16:55:24
    The LHC is operating well, hitting record peak luminosities, with integrated luminosity for the year over 11 fb-1. By the end of the year there may be 25 fb-1 per experiment or so. Current plan seems to be to update … Continue reading →

  • Von Freeman

    Updated: 2012-08-14 02:45:11
    Von Freeman, legendary jazz saxophonist, passed away Sunday. He was 88 years old. Here he is at the 2002 Berlin jazzfest, when Von was a spry 78: Mike Allemana on guitar, Michael Raynor on drums, and Jack Zara on bass. Playing one of Von’s tunes, “Blues for Sunnyland.” From 2002 to 2007, listening to Von [...]

  • Looking Around

    Updated: 2012-08-10 16:36:28
    You've no doubt heard about some of the images coming from the newly landed Curiosity device on the Martian surface. Above is a 360 degree panorama (from NASA/JPL) assembled from lots of smaller images, showing its surroundings in the [...]

  • 2012 CMS Luminosity: 10/fb And Counting!

    Updated: 2012-08-10 14:19:45
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  • In Defense of Teaching Algebra

    Updated: 2012-08-09 23:56:08
    Over at HuffPo, my colleague Nick Warner has posted a piece about why we teach algebra to people who supposedly “won’t need it”, and he makes some excellent points. (Recall the silly New York Times piece by Andrew Hacker entitled “Is Algebra Necessary?” that I mentioned a few posts ago.) I recommend Nick’s piece. -cvj

  • Avoid the Christmas Rush!

    Updated: 2012-08-09 23:34:02
    Hard to believe I wrote another book. How did that happen? But it must be true, as The Particle at the End of the Universe is now available for pre-order on Amazon and elsewhere. Back to real work for me, for the foreseeable future. (Unless someone wants to give me a million dollars, which to [...]

  • LEP3

    Updated: 2012-08-09 15:06:45
    For many years now discussion in the HEP community of what might be the appropriate next machine to try and finance and build after the LHC has centered around the idea of a linear electron-positron collider. The logic has been … Continue reading →

  • On science, faith and truth & why I take the Higgs boson 'discovery' with a grain of salt...

    Updated: 2012-08-08 21:29:57
    Once in a while, news breaks about a scientific discovery that appears to confirm mainstream scienti

  • 10 Evolutionary & Scientific Approaches to Psychology

    Updated: 2012-08-06 20:15:51
    Here’s a cool infographic documenting 10 ways psychology and the science of the mind has been affected by evolutionary thinking. As you can see, many advances have come about as a result of the evolutionary approach, and the while the brain is still very mysterious, we are coming to understand it more and more every [...]

  • She Stuck the Landing!

    Updated: 2012-08-06 07:01:16
    Well, that was exciting! Congratulations to the teams on the Curiosity mission! Look out for some great science to come from this laboratory! -cvj

  • Mars Science Laboratory Touches Down Tonight

    Updated: 2012-08-05 17:37:48
    Nowadays everyone calls it the “Curiosity rover,” but I got to know it as the Mars Science Laboratory, and I’m too old and set in my ways to switch. Launched on November 26, 2011, the mission is scheduled to land on Mars’s Gale Crater tonight/tomorrow morning: 5:31 UTC, which translates to 1:30 a.m. Eastern time [...]

  • Higgs Papers Out

    Updated: 2012-08-03 19:44:35
    We were all transfixed by the Higgs seminars on July 4, but the work was nowhere near over for the experimentalists — they had to actually write up papers describing the results. And of course taking the opportunity to do a little more analysis along the way. Now the papers have appeared on the arxiv. [...]

  • Two Events At FestivaLetteratura 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-02 16:03:43
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  • ATLAS: 5.9 Sigma For A 126 GeV Higgs !

    Updated: 2012-07-31 16:53:15
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  • Music Was Better in the Sixties, Man

    Updated: 2012-07-28 18:45:41
    Actually, popular music is arguably “better” today. But in the Sixties it was more creative — or at least more experimental. So says science. (Via Kevin Drum.) The science under consideration was carried out by a group of Spanish scientists led by Joan Serrà, and appeared in Scientific Reports, an open-access journal published by Nature. [...]

  • “Unusual Scientific Machine”

    Updated: 2012-07-23 15:33:13
    Spotted on a table of old instruments while wandering around London's Portabello Road market two Sundays ago. (Click for a larger view.) I found the labelling amusing. Any idea what this might be? [...]

  • Dark Matter Still Hiding

    Updated: 2012-07-20 18:07:47
    After a few provocative hints over the last few years, new results in the search for weakly-interacting dark matter have come up empty. The latest is from XENON100, a liquid-xenon scintillation detector under the mountain in Gran Sasso, Italy. Here are the talk slides by Elena Aprile (pdf) from the Dark Attack conference in Switzerland [...]

  • Time the Destroyer

    Updated: 2012-07-17 18:37:53
    Andy Albrecht of UC Davis gave an entertaining TEDx talk on entropy — or as he calls it, “destruction” — and the arrow of time. I especially like how he is willing to look clumsy in the cause of greater pedagogy!

  • Higgs the Cat on Higgs the Particle

    Updated: 2012-07-15 23:11:44
    Higgs the cat, owner of friend and guest author of the blog Faye Flam, has written his own take on the Higgs boson as a contribution to Faye’s Planet of the Apes blog. Faye will shamelessly plagiarize Higgs in Monday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, but you can read it straight from the kitty’s mouth at the above [...]

  • Tony Smith: My Two Bets With TD

    Updated: 2012-07-12 14:28:53
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  • My Two Pieces On The Higgs

    Updated: 2012-07-06 10:40:37
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  • Seeing the Higgs Everywhere

    Updated: 2012-07-06 09:50:08
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  • Yes ! Discovery of a Higgs boson !!

    Updated: 2012-07-04 10:49:56
    Finally, after monumental work, we have discovered a new particle !!! This is an historic day in particle physics, fireworks are very well justified. CMS and ATLAS presented status reports showing that the 2012 data confirm the hint of a Higgs boson seen in the 2011 data. The strongest evidence comes from the H→γγ mode [...]

  • Rolf Heuer: "I Think We Have It" !

    Updated: 2012-07-04 09:46:26
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  • Higgs Live Blogging 7 - The ATLAS Seminar

    Updated: 2012-07-04 08:55:58
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  • Higgs Live Blogging 6 - The CMS Seminar

    Updated: 2012-07-04 07:56:59
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  • Higgs Live Blogging 5 - Draft Quotes For The Guardian Etc.

    Updated: 2012-07-04 07:31:16
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  • Higgs Live Blogging 4 - Big Expectations

    Updated: 2012-07-04 06:39:30
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  • PLEASE don’t call it “the God particle”

    Updated: 2012-07-03 06:15:51
    Let me make a plea to all science journalist out there: Please don’t call it “the God particle”! That name was invented by Leon Lederman, very much tongue-in-cheek, back in 1993 when he published a rather good popular science book. Leon is an nobel prize winner and devoted much of his life to improving math [...]

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