I am flying to Toronto on the weekend and will be visiting Perimeter Institute the coming two weeks. Since Superdaddy will be terribly busy ...

... then here's some things to consider: The recent issue of Nature has a News Report "The PhD factory - The world is producing mo...

In the aftermath of the plagiarism affair that led to the withdrawal of German defense minister zu Guttenberg's doctor title and, event...

Earlier this year, Gideon Rachman asked in the Financial Times "Where have all the thinkers gone?" Contemplating the Foreign Polic...

multiverse [noun] From L. multus “much, many” and L. versare “to busy oneself,” lit. “to turn to.” Tech: A hypothetical collection of dif...

Berlin, April 1st 2011: The Federal Intelligence Service discovered a Ponzi scheme of academic citations lead by an unemployed particle phy...

Lara and Gloria are now almost three months old. They have doubled their birth weight and grown in and out of the newborn cloths. Gloria is ...

Some weeks ago I asked my midwife what made her chose her job. She told me she had actually wanted to study medicine, but didn't meet th...

APS's newest journal is Physical Review X (PRX) . It's online-only, open access and accepted articles will be published upon payment...

I always feel awkward if somebody brings up the topic of women's underrepresentation in physics. Though I'm one of these underrepres...

That the space-time of Einstein's Special and General Relativity might not be fundamental plays a central rôle in our quest for quantum ...

These are hard times for physicists working on supersymmetry. The LHC constrains the parameter space with so far no evidence for what has be...

The extend to which one can construct a model for human society is a matter of dispute. Among the most common arguments why it might not be ...

The German Winter is making place for Spring's first green, and our two lovely girls are now almost two months old. Lara and Gloria have...

Five years ago I wrote the first post for this blog. Since then I've moved from Santa Barbara to Canada and from Canada to Sweden . I...

The German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg holds the title of Dr. jur. from the University in Bayreuth. He finished his thesis i...

In the very early universe matter was dense and hot. With the expansion of space, matter cooled down which eventually allowed for the format...

A Brilliant Darkness The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age João Mag...

I almost forgot! Last year, the Canadian Association of Physicists ' journal " Physics in Canada " published an issue on Perim...

The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis Yes, I said ...