- The Discover Magazine's cover story of the February issue is about RHIC: The Big Bang Machine - A Long Island particle smasher re-creates the moment of creation. I have no subscription, so I haven't yet read it, but I'll update.
- I have a guest post at Clifford's blog Asymtpotia that I wrote last weekend: Sabine Hossenfelder - My inspiration. My husband said: You've put everything that your heart is attached to in that piece. Well, he's exaggerating. I mentioned Jelly Beans, but not Haribo Gummy Bears (btw Stefan, I'm still waiting for the care package!)
- The idea to make the Sunday evening guest posts a regular feature is so far fruitful. Also for the next some weeks I have some physicists who will contribute with their story how and why they became a physicist. The previous posts were by Chanda and Tommaso.
- If you have a couple of minutes time, read this thoughtful short story by Isaac Asimov about the increase of entropy and the first moment of time. If you're done and wish you had become a SciFi author, go find out which Sci Fi writer you are (via Asymptotia).
- The 6th edition of the blog carnival Philosophia Naturalis is out now. As always, with lots of interesting pointers towards recent science posts, and definitly worth having a look!
- Blogger is having hiccups, and part of the sites are down, sorry, not much I can do about it. Have a nice day, hope to see you around :-)
Thursday, February 01, 2007
This and That
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Hi Bee,
ReplyDeletehow are you?
You told me that I should sing the background song myself. That was tough because the background music on my blog is chosen randomly from 9 songs by the LHC, the band from CERN.
So I recorded all nine of these songs for you. See the files starting with lhc on http://www.physics.harvard.edu/~motl/mic/.
I hope you will enjoy them. :-)
Best
Lubos
Hi Lubos,
ReplyDeletealways busy - who's not? How are you? Thanks for the info, I guessed it was the pretty ladies from CERN, I got a song that said something about daddy's lab or so. I didn't come back to notice it's a randomizer, but thanks for the link. The singer has a very pleasant voice actually, do you happen to know her? I just generally dislike sites that pop up things, have stuff flying around, or play sounds I didn't chose to hear.
Best,
B.
btw Stefan, I'm still waiting for the care package!
ReplyDeleteHey, no kidding:
I was pareparing one today :-)
So, have a little patience ...
I dislike sites with jumping windows and screams, too, just like spam.
ReplyDeleteThis general sentiment makes it harder but not impossible to create spam or background music that is actually pleasant. ;-)
I liked their voices etc., too. If you're interested in this band, go to LHC.
I didn't put my versions of these songs because the left-wing mafia would try to deny, for political reasons, that the blog owner is the one true savior of music. I don't want music to be politicized in this way...
Best
Lubos
Hi Bee,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Asimov's short story. It turned out that I was Asimov, but I have never read anything by the dude, until now (not that the latter requirement was somehow necessary, given that I don't get the point of such a thing). Reality is I have never been a fan of Sci-Fi, mainly because I never grew up with a liking of the culture.