Quantum Gravity: The Holey Grail. Jonathan Granot’s colloquium slides have an amusing typo rendering quantum gravity the “holey grail o...

In a recent arxiv paper, Jacob Bekenstein from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem proposed a tabletop experiment to test Planck scale signal...

I read last week that the German daily newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau" declared bankruptcy . While it's not the first and pr...

Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives By Dean Buonomano W. W. Norton & Company (August 6, 2012) We have to thank ...

Image source: arXiv:1010.0832 [cond-mat.soft] No, it's not a moon passage in front of an exoplanet. It's a thin nematic film. ...

Sean wrote a wonderful post about the recent measurement of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background from the South Pole Telesco...

This month, we have a program on "Perspectives of Fundamental Cosmology" here at Nordita , which I've been organizing togethe...

Gloria trying out my running shoes. Fall has come to Germany and with it a bunch of bad news. The grant application that I had written ...

Conference Photo: Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2012. The third installment of our conference "Experimental Search for Q...

Hello from Canada and sorry for the silence, I'm here for the 2012 conference on Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity , and the sched...

Physicists like systems with fewer than the three spatial dimensions that we are used to. Not so much because that's easier, but because...

Soft Matter: The stuff that dreams are made of By Roberto Piazza Springer (April 11, 2011) Some months ago I had a conversation about ne...

With astonishment I saw the other day that Phys. Rev. Lett. published a paper I had come across on the arxiv earlier this year: Testing ...

The layered structure of the sun. Click to enlarge. Image credits: NASA It's hot, round, and you're not supposed to stare at it...

Our conference on "Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity" now has the schedule online . As you can see, this year's format i...

"I am ... rather skeptical about "popular" science in general, in particular when I bump into those books pretending to addr...

The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos (CBC Massey Lecture) By Neil Turok House of Anansi Press (October 2, 2012) Neil Turok is ...

The Photoelectric Effect Light falling on a metal plate can lead to emission of electrons, called the "photoelectric effect". Exp...

Seems I've been too busy to even give you the family update last month, so here's to catch up. Lara and Gloria can meanwhile climb...