There’s a photo which keeps cropping up in my facebook feed and it bothers me. It shows a white girl, maybe three years, kissing a black b...

Whatever you do, don’t f*ck with mom. Fast track to wisdom: Not necessarily. I stopped going to church around the same time I started ...

There is a paper making the rounds which was just published in Nature Physics , but has been on the arXiv since two years: Universal dec...

This is the story of a friend of a friend, a man by name Francis who took his life at age 34. Francis had been struggling with manic depress...

Damned if I know! But I got to ask some questions to Lee Smolin which he kindly replied to, and you can read his answers over at Starts wi...

Last week there were two new papers on the arXiv discussing an effect dubbed “cosmological hysteresis,” which, so the authors argue, would m...

I recently gave a seminar on the use of social media for scientists at an internal event at Stockholm University. It was an opportunity to c...

I have a soft side, and I don’t mean my Snoopy pants, though there is that. I mean I have a liking for philosophy because there are so man...

Black holes seem to be the most obvious explanation for the finding that galaxies harbor “dark” matter that doesn’t emit light but that make...

String Theory and the Scientific Method By Richard Dawid Cambridge University Press (2013) “String Theory and the Scientific Method” is a...

While I was writing up my recent paper on classical information exchange , a very interesting new paper appeared on quantum information exch...

Black hole shadow in the movie “Interstellar.” Image credit: Double Negative artists/DNGR/TM © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./Creative Co...