US public say yes to science debate
I'm sorry to say that this snippet of news about ScienceDebate 2008 escaped my attention...
Oh brother, where art thou?
I wonder if many other scientists under the wing of the Holy See agree with Jose Gabriel Funes...
The return of the 'Science Warrior'
Plugging his new book in Bristol, UK, last night was arch-rationalist Alan Sokal...
Who cares if it’s not even wrong?
"So what would you do if string theory is wrong?" asks string theorist Moataz Emam in a paper posted on arXiv yesterday...
Is this the youngest professor ever?
Alia Sabur has allegedly broken the record for the world's youngest professor...
Comparisons
Being at the APS meeting last year in Denver, I can’t help but think about some comparisons. Although I was at the march meeting last year in a different capacity (as a researcher, giving my 10+...
Baseball and steroids
How much do drugs affect the performance of athletes and more interestingly how can we quantify such enhanced performance? That was the question that Roger Tobin, a condensed matter physicist from Tuf...
Stingy Uncle Sam
Here I am doing my bit to persuade the US government that it should give a little more money to the nation’s physicists. The photo was taken by the APS’s Tawanda Johnson, who was trying to...
Streetcar to the Garden District
It’s a lovely day in New Orleans and I managed to get a sunburn walking around the French Quarter this morning….I suppose I’m a real redneck now! Our hotel is right across the road f...
Arrived and ready
The 21 hour door-to-door trip is past us now as we focus on the start of the conference tomorrow. We arrived at the hotel early on Sunday morning after a quick connection in Chicago. The whole trip fr...
