Lara and Gloria are now 10 months old. They can both stand as long as they have something to hold on to, and they take little steps along th...

I've learned a new word: webinar. Stefan has had a few. Maybe it's contagious. A webinar, so I've learned, is a web-based semina...

After the previous posts were somewhat heavy in content, for relaxation let me just show you some photos from a recent weekend excursion. [C...

In the summer, I noted a recent paper that scored remarkably low on the bullshit index : Towards Loop Quantum Supergravity (LQSG) Norbert Bo...

One of the most persistent and contagious side-effects of string theory has been the conjectured AdS/CFT correspondence (that we previously ...

Two weeks ago, an arXiv preprint came out with a new analysis of the highest energetic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the Fermi tele...

I'll be away the rest of the week for a brief trip to Jyväskylä, Finland . I'm also quite busy next week, so don't expect to hea...

The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has an interesting interview with Caren Hagner , from the University of Hamburg. ...

Lara and Gloria are now 9 months old, and it's time again for our monthly baby update. The girls are now both crawling well . Lara has l...

Special relativity and quantum mechanics are characterized by two universal constants, the speed of light, c , and Planck's constant, ℏ....

[ Geek Mommyprof from Academic Jungle is hosting a carnival on real people's work in theoretical or computational sciences, and what th...

We'll resettle to Stockholm in the coming week and fight some bureaucratic fights, so you might not hear much from us for a while. Since...

This September, it's been 16 years since I started studying physics. That's 2^2^2 years which have gone by and bye. Stefan started i...

Last week at the airport I read the July/August issue of Scientific American Mind, which has an interesting article " Reflections on th...

The final session of the 2011 FQXi conference concluded with a brief survey. The question “Is a ‘perfect predictor’ of your choices possible...

The 2011 FQXi conference was an interesting mix of people. The contributions from the life sciences admittedly caught my attention much mor...

I am back in Germany and happily reunited with the family. Time might not exist and its passage be an illusion, but the babies are growing i...

Yesterday, at the 2011 FQXi conference in Copenhagen , Jaan Tallinn told us he is concerned. And he is not a man of petty worries. Some of u...

We just arrived in Copenhagen after a 2-day trip on the National Geographic Explorer, a medium sized cruise ship, along Norway’s coast. On...

I'll be away for a week on the FQXi conference "Setting Time Aright." A significant amount of the participants are reportedl...