The other day I got caught in a conversation about the Royal Institute of Technology and how it deals with value added taxes. After the thir...

xkcd: The Search After I had spent half a year doing little more than watching babies grow and writing a review article on the minimal l...

The blogosphere is coming to age, and I’m doing my annual contemplation of its influence on science. Science blogs of course have an educa...

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story By Jim Holt Liveright (July 16, 2012) Yes, I do sometimes wonder why the wor...

Contains 0% Quantum Gravity. " Scientific Reports " is a new open access journal from the Nature Publishing Group, which adver...

Since 2007, the US-American National Science Foundation (NSF) has an explicit call for “transformative research” in their funding criteria. ...

Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 25, 2011) I am always on the lookout for ways to improve m...

Gloria at 2 months, crying. Two weeks after delivery, when the husband went back to work and my hemoglobin level had recovered enough to...

Some weeks ago I wrote a review on Jonah Lehrer's book "Imagine," in which I complained about missing references. Now that it...

Lara and Gloria are presently very difficult. They have learned to climb the chairs and upwards from there; I constantly have to pick them o...

I am currently reading Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking, fast and slow,” which summarizes a truly amazing amount of studies. Among many othe...

I've been trying to convince some people here at Nordita that it would be great if we'd have a couple of brief videos explaining wh...

I didn't change my family name when I got married six years ago; it would have been a complication on my publication list that I didn...

Earlier this year, there was an interesting program at the KITP on " Bits, Branes and Black Holes. " Unfortunately I couldn't ...

The German Science Foundation (DFG) has recently released statistics and tables about science funding in Germany and, in some cases, the Eur...

Absorption image of Yb ion. Image source . Via . If you know anything about atoms you know they're small. And if you know a little ...

At the recent Marcel Grossmann meeting, I had been invited to give a talk about my 2009 paper with Lee on the black hole information loss p...

I recently came across an old report from Nordita , the years 1957-1982. It's in Swedish and for all I can tell it covers the mission, o...

Already in 1785, Charles Coulomb pointed out a puzzle that would take more than a century to solve: An electrically charged conductor will l...