I am working on a review which had me digging out papers going back to 1920. It is very interesting to see the ideas that were suggested and...

Briefly after Christmas, I found in my mailbox a copy of Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin's new book " A First Course in Loop Quant...

It's been six years since I sat in my Santa Barbara office on a Friday morning, clicking the "publish" button on Blogger's...

I used to consider myself a pragmatist. But some months ago I learned that pragmatism is an American school of thought, which threw me into ...

Via George Musser via Symmetry Magazine come these wonderful images of quilts by artist Kate Findlay who let herself be inspired by LHC ph...

Nature news titled recently that "Rebel academics ponder how to break free of commercial publishers" . The rebels would be better ...

Following some suggestions in the comments, I have made an updated version of the science symbol. I've added a hint of arrows to the cir...

Paul Root Wolpe is on the search for a universal symbol for science . He must be serious, because he has set up a Facebook page. Though one...

The other day I talked to a young women who is about to finish high school, so the time is coming to decide what education to pursue after t...

Last year's FQXi conference was a memorable event for me. Not only because it doesn't happen all that often that my conversation pa...

Almost three years ago, I wrote about Craig Hogan's holographic noise. If you look up Hogan's papers on the arXiv , you'll see ...

It goes under the name spacetime-foam or fuzz, or sometimes graininess or, more neutral, fluctuations: The general expectation that, due to ...

In 1931, Wolfgang Pauli went for a long-term stay to Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Ann Arbor, Pauli gave lectures and met, among others, with Otto...

Our two lovely girls have learned to walk! Gloria has fallen in love with a plush moose that I bought at the Stockholm airport. When I was p...

The best scientific arguments are those that are surprising at first sight, yet at second sight they make perfect sense. The following argum...

Two weeks ago, we discussed Hannah and Eppley's thought experiment . Hannah and Eppley argued that a fundamental theory that is only par...

I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry when I read this article: An Auction Market for Journal Articles By Jens Prufer and David Zetla...

During the last 50 years, physicists made remarkable progress in creating materials that would not exist on Earth without scientists. Custom...

I'll be in Stockholm during the next days for the Nordita Winterschool 2012 . I have some issues with the Internet connection in the Sto...

We have many reasons to believe that our present knowledge of the fundamental laws of nature is incomplete. Not only because it is unaesthet...