As the year nears its end, my feed is full with last year’s news. For balance, I want to give some space to next year’s news. What do you ...

The standard model of parenthood. The kids are almost three years now and I spend a lot of time picking up wooden building blocks. That’...

I wish you all happy holidays and a peaceful Christmas time! The next days will be a slow time on the blog as we're working our way t...

Defects in graphene. Image source: IOP . Whether or not space and time are fundamentally discrete is one of the central questions of qua...

Swedish alphabet. Note lack of W. [ Source ] “I was always bad at math” is an excuse I have heard many of my colleagues complain about. ...

M assive gravity, a modification of general relativity in which gravitons have mass, has an interesting history. Massive gravity was lon...

That I even have to write about this tells you how bad it is. During the last years a lot of attention has been drawn to the prevalence of ...

If life grows over your head, your closest pop psy magazine recommends dividing it up into small, manageable chunks. Physicists too apply th...

On the playground of quantum foundations, Bell’s theorem is the fence. This celebrated theorem – loved by some and hated by others – shows...

Image: Leah Saulnier . The internet loves lists, among them the lists with questions that allegedly keep physicists up at night. Most re...

Knitted brain cap. Source: Etsy . I recently finished reading “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” by Neil Gaiman. I haven’t read a fantas...

I've been trying to figure out a quick way to make an embeddable slideshow and to that end I collected some physics-themed product names...

[ My recent post about the marketing of science and scientists lead to a longer discussion on facebook. I offered Marc Kuchner, author of t...

Remember when a 20kB image took a minute to load? Back then, when dinosaurs were roaming the earth? Data has become big. Today we have m...

It’s been a while since I read Marc Kuchner’s book “Marketing for Scientists” . I hated the book as I’ve rarely hated a book. I did not writ...

Mamasonnenbrille. It’s not like nothing happened, I just haven’t had the time to keep you updated on our four-body problems. Earlier t...