In case anyone is still reading this... It's been 20 years since I set up this blog, briefly after I moved from Tucson to Santa Barbar...

I'm left somewhat speechless here.

I was told that I have irritable bowel syndrome. I then learned by shear coincidence that most of my symptoms were instead caused by food ad...

The US version of my book "Lost in Math" is about to be published as paperback. You can now pre-order it , which of course you s...

I keep getting requests from people that I comment on the coronavirus pandemic, disease models, or measures taken to contain and mitigate th...

I'm attending a conference in Oxford the coming week, so there won't be much happening on this blog. Also, please be warned that co...

I am looking for a database specialist to help with our SciMeter project . The candidate should be comfortable with python, SQL, and linux, ...

I'll be in the Netherlands for a few days to attend a workshop on " Probabilities in Cosmology ". Back next week. Wish you a g...

The French translation of my book “Lost in Math” has now appeared under the title “ Lost in Maths: Comment la beauté égare la physique ”. ...

I will be away next week, giving three talks at Brookhaven National Lab on Tuesday, April 9 , and one at Yale April 10 . Next upcoming...

I have spent the last few weekends shouting at a foam mat. It’s nothing personal. Foam and I, we normally get along just fine. It’s just tha...

I am in London for a few days and comments are likely to pile up in the queue more than usual. Pls play nicely while I'm away.

Me and my Particle Data Booklet. In the past week, I got a lot of messages from particle physicists who are unhappy I wrote an Op-Ed for...

Yesterday, after some back-and-forth with a German customs officer, my husband finally got hold of a parcel that had gone astray. It turne...

[The best part of publishing a  book  has been getting feedback from readers who report their own experience as it relates to what I wrote...

I have been getting a novel complaint about my music videos, which is that they are “hard to understand.” In case you share this impression,...

Some weeks ago a friend emailed me to say he was shocked – shocked! – to hear I had lost my job. This sudden unemployment was news to me, ...

I’ll be traveling the next two weeks. First I am in Santa Fe, giving both a colloquium and a public lecture , and then I am in Oslo, giving...

Today is the official publication date of my book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.” There’s an interview with me in the cu...

Lara. I had just returned from my trip to Dublin when the door rang and the UPS man dumped two big boxes on our doorstep. My husband has...