Fixed some problems, created some new ones. Sorry for the glassy stare at some places; I had to redo the recording but had a gigantic headac...

I thought you’d enjoy  this gloriously prescient NYT article from 1986 which my husband has dug out. In it, Malcom Browne reports that Alan...

Taking a selfie with a book on your face is more difficult than you may think. I had breakfast with John The-End-Of-Science-Horgan two w...

As I mentioned, I used the prize money I got from the recent FQXi essay contest to buy a new video camera. The main reason for doing this w...

The HERA telescope array in South Africa  [ img src ]. In the beginning, reheating created a hot plasma of elementary particles. The pla...

Some weeks ago a friend emailed me to say he was shocked – shocked! – to hear I had lost my job. This sudden unemployment was news to me, ...

Women today still face obstacles men don’t encounter and often don’t notice. I see this every day at my front door, in physics, where women ...

Dr Alessandro Strumia is a physicist working at CERN, where he is Principal Investigator of an ERC Advanced research grant on the topic “ Un...

This is me with John Horgan, yesterday. This photo is only here so the share widgets work properly. One of the most frequent critical re...

[See below for travel update in English] Ab heute ist die Deutsche Übersetzung von „ Lost in Math “ in Handel erhältlich unter dem Titel „...

Fluid art by Vera de Gernier. Stephen Hawking sadly passed away earlier this year , but his scientific legacy is well alive. The black h...

I’ve done it again. This times I layered up to nine copies of myself. I have also squeaked out a high D, drawn a space ship that looks like ...

Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin By Cornelia Dean Belknap Press (March 13, 2017) It’s not easy, being a science...

Old photo. My father died a few weeks shy of his 42nd birthday. Went to bed one night, didn’t wake up the next morning. The death certif...

[image: kamere.com ] Physicists still haven’t figured out what dark matter is made of, if anything. The idea that it’s made of particles...

Bad stock photos of my job. A physicist is excited to have found a complicated way of writing the number 2. When Senator Rand Paul last ...

“When the universe expands, into what is it expanding? In what medium is it expanding? Is the universe like a bubble in a higher dimension s...