With the weekend approaching, here's some distractions to kill your remaining working hours till 5pm: A very nice applet that zooms you ...

Science, especially fundamental research, used to be a pastime of the rich. Within the last century its potential for innovation has been di...

... you might want to check out my recent paper Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity arXiv:1010.3420v1 [gr-qc] It's not very technica...

I recently read an interesting article by Jeffrey R. Young in the Chronical of Higher Education, titled Crowd Science Reaches New Height s ....

I recently came across a study in the sociology of science and have been wondering how to interpret the results: Do Pressures to Publish Inc...

The appeal of string theory is in the simplicity of the idea. The devil, as usual, is in the details that follow. But one-dimensional object...

Congratulations to Andre Geim of the University of Manchester, the first winner of both the IGNobel and the Nobel Prize in Physics! Back in...

I recently came across this interesting quotation by Albert Einstein: “But you have correctly grasped the drawback that the continuum brings...

With some delay, here's finally the summary of our summer workshop on Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity . Most of the delay is du...

Some years back I was shortlisted for a job and gave a seminar, doing my best to leave a good impression. In the questions following my talk...

"Dance your PhD," believe it or not, is a contest for the best presentation of a PhD topic as a dance video in the categories phys...

Love for mathematics divides people like nothing else. Sure, people can develop a fascination for the most bizarre things - knitting, collec...

I have a confession to make. I've been unduly withholding information from you. But I think time has come to fill you in and I hope the ...

Last week, the CERN Book Fair give me the opportunity of a short trip back to CERN. I had been there a few times in 2000/2001, working with...

Some things that entered my sphere of thought recently: Dorothy Bishop, Prof. of developmental neuropsychology at Oxford, is offering an ...

Some months back, I got a mini-grant from the Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi . The proposal was to award a prize to the “most courag...

Monday morning, I woke up in the hospital with an IV-drip in one arm and a nurse taking my blood pressure on the other arm. What happened? S...

Yesterday, Stefan and I went to see the "Body Worlds" exhibition, which is currently in Offenbach, close to Frankfurt, Germany . B...

If you know one thing about quantum mechanics, it's Born's rule: The probability of a measurement is the square of the amplitudes of...

You are not a Gadget - A Manifesto By Jaron Lanier Knopf (January 12, 2010) Jaron Lanier is an interdisciplinary computer scientist who does...