I spent the holidays watching some tutorials for video animations and learned quite a few new things. The below video collects some exercise...

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I spent the holidays playing with the video animation software. As a side-effect, I produced this little video. If you'd rather read t...

My first thought when I heard the 2017 Edge Annual Question was “Wasn’t that last year's question?” It wasn’t. But it’s almost identi...

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I’m just back from a workshop about “ Reasoning in Physics ” at the Center for Advanced Studies in Munich. I went because it seemed a good...

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“Hello Sabine, I've seen a couple of articles lately on emergent gravity. I'm not a scientist so I would love to read one of your ...