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2014 80

December 2014

  1. A new proposal for a fifth force experiment
  2. The 2014 non-news: Where do these highly energetic cosmic rays come from?
  3. Merry Christmas :)
  4. Book review: "The Edge of the Sky" by Roberto Trotta
  5. Has Loop Quantum Gravity been proved wrong?
  6. The remote Maxwell Demon
  7. 10 things you didn’t know about the Anthropic Principle

November 2014

  1. Negative Mass in General Relativity?
  2. Gender disparity? Yes, please.
  3. Frequently Asked Questions
  4. The underappreciated value of boring truths
  5. And the winners are...
  6. Make a guess, win a book.
  7. The paradigm shift you didn’t notice

October 2014

  1. String theory – it’s a girl thing
  2. Einstein’s greatest legacy- How demons and angels advanced science
  3. We talk too much.
  4. Siri's Song [music video]
  5. Does Loop Quantum Cosmology make the black hole information loss problem worse rather than better?
  6. I can't forget [music video]
  7. Is the next supercollider a good investment?

September 2014

  1. Black holes declared non-existent again.
  2. Discoveries that weren’t
  3. Is there a smallest length?
  4. Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity – What is new?
  5. Science changed my life – and yours too.

August 2014

  1. The ordinary weirdness of quantum mechanics
  2. Name that Þing
  3. Hello from Iceland
  4. DAMA annual modulation explained without invoking dark matter
  5. Away note and Interna
  6. Do we write too many papers?
  7. When the day comes [video]
  8. What is a singularity?

July 2014

  1. Can you touch your nose?
  2. Can black holes bounce to white holes?
  3. I saw the future [Video] Making of.
  4. What is a theory, What is a model?
  5. Post-empirical science is an oxymoron.

June 2014

  1. The Inverse Problem. Sorry, we don’t have experimental evidence for quantum gravity.
  2. What I do... [Video]
  3. Book review: “The Island of Knowledge” by Marcelo Gleiser
  4. Evolving dimensions, now vanishing
  5. Who tf is Bob?
  6. Is Science the only Way of Knowing?
  7. Are the laws of nature beautiful?

May 2014

  1. The Firewall Song
  2. Book Review: “The Cosmic Cocktail” by Katherine Freese
  3. What is direct evidence and does the BICEP2 measurement prove that gravity must be quantized?
  4. 10 Things I wish I had known 20 years ago – Science Edition
  5. Nordita's Science Writers Workshop on Quantum Theory: Apply Now
  6. A Thousand Words
  7. Consciousness and Physics from Scratch

April 2014

  1. FQXi essay contest 2014: How Should Humanity Steer the Future?
  2. Academia isn’t what I expected
  3. Away note
  4. The Problem of Now
  5. Book review: “The Theoretical Minimum – Quantum Mechanics” By Susskind and Friedman
  6. Will the social sciences ever become hard sciences?
  7. Do we live in a hologram? Really??

March 2014

  1. Does nature hide strong curvature regions?
  2. Do scientists deliberately use technical expressions so they cannot be understood?
  3. 10 Misconceptions about Creativity

February 2014

  1. What is analogue gravity and what is it good for?
  2. 8 Years Backreaction!
  3. The eternal tug of war between science journalists and scientists. A graphical story.
  4. A drop makes waves – just like quantum mechanics?
  5. Can Planck Stars exist?
  6. Got a problem? Good for you...
  7. Interna

January 2014

  1. If it quacks like a black hole
  2. A moment of silence replaces the big bang
  3. My invisible friend
  4. The science of the multiverse.
  5. Trouble in the Ivory Tower: Not an academic problem.
  6. Loops vs Strings. Almost discovered for much longer.
  7. Shooting strings
  8. Why quantize gravity?
  9. Book review: “Free Radicals” by Michael Brooks
  10. 10 Misconceptions about Free Will

2013 96

December 2013

  1. Next Year’s News
  2. The finetuned cube
  3. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
  4. Searching for Spacetime Defects
  5. Mathematics, the language of nature. What are you sinking about?
  6. The Comeback of Massive Gravity
  7. Are irreproducible scientific results okay and just business as usual?
  8. The three phases of space-time

November 2013

  1. Cosmic Bell
  2. The five questions that keep physicists up at night
  3. Does modern science discourage creativity?
  4. Physics in product ads
  5. Marc Kuchner about his book "Marketing for Scientists"
  6. Big data meets the eye

October 2013

  1. Science Marketing needs Consumer Feedback
  2. Interna
  3. Metaphors and analogies: scientists’ friends or foes?
  4. What is the viscosity of space-time?
  5. Physics World turns 25
  6. Shut up and let me think
  7. Should the Nobel Prize be given to collaborations and institutions?
  8. Quantum Gravity in the Cosmic Microwave Background?
  9. Women in Science. Again.
  10. Testing Conspiracy Theories

September 2013

  1. Gauge Symmetry Violation (Short film)
  2. The multiverse is not a paradigm and it’s not shifting anything.
  3. Book Review: “You are not so Smart” by David McRaney
  4. Dear Mr. President
  5. Quantum Gravity in Gamma Ray Bursts: Still Nothing
  6. Book Review: The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
  7. Whatever happened to AdS/CFT and the Quark Gluon Plasma?
  8. The Limits of Science
  9. What is Special Relativity?

August 2013

  1. Should you write a science blog?
  2. Can we test quantum gravity with gravitational bremsstrahlung?
  3. Can we measure scientific success? Should we?
  4. Physics Outreach Event at Kungsträdgården, Sep 7
  5. Researchers and coffee consumption
  6. You are likely special and your friends probably not normal
  7. Book Review: “Information is Beautiful” by David McCandless
  8. Are physicists hot or not?
  9. Video about Loop Quantum Cosmology

July 2013

  1. Book review: “The Blank Slate” by Steven Pinker
  2. Starspotting
  3. How stable is the photon? Yes, the photon.
  4. You probably have no free will. But don’t worry about it.
  5. More mysteries in cosmic rays, and a proposed solution
  6. The unshaven valley
  7. Video: The origin of galactic magnetic fields, Oliver Gressel
  8. Interna
  9. “String theorists have to sit in the back.”

June 2013

  1. Passing through cosmic walls
  2. Science should be more like religion
  3. Testing spontaneous localization models with molecular level splitting
  4. Phenomenological Quantum Gravity
  5. Nordita’s First Workshop for Science Writers, Summary
  6. Quantum gravity phenomenology \neq detecting gravitons
  7. Why do Science?

May 2013

  1. Have your multiverse and eat it
  2. Who said it first? The historical comeback of the cosmological constant
  3. Guestpost: Howard Burton - "Justified Optimism"
  4. Dimensional Reduction
  5. A star-rating for scientific news?
  6. Basic research is vital
  7. What do "most physicists" work on?
  8. What is a microfiber cloth and how does it work?
  9. Interna

April 2013

  1. Book review: “Time Reborn” by Lee Smolin
  2. The Enantiomers’ Swimming Competition
  3. Listen to Spacetime
  4. Excuse me, where is the mainstream?
  5. Proximate and Ultimate Causes for Publication
  6. Black holes and the Planck length
  7. First Issue of the New Nordita Newsletter!
  8. Twitter Enthusiasm Dwindling

March 2013

  1. Opinions, Morals and What Science Could but Shouldn’t Tell Us
  2. Apps I’d like to see
  3. The Philosophie of Gaps
  4. Interna
  5. Upcoming Science Writers Workshop at Nordita
  6. 23 and Me

February 2013

  1. The simulation hypothesis and other things I don’t believe
  2. Book review: "The Theoretical Minimum" by Susskind and Hrabovsky
  3. Thumbs up for the Cambridge University Press Customer Service
  4. The Future of Peer Review
  5. The end of science is near, again.
  6. Book review "The Edge of Physics" by Anil Ananthaswamy
  7. Consequences of using the journal impact factor

January 2013

  1. Interna
  2. Misconceptions about the Anthropic Principle
  3. Hurdles for women in physics
  4. How a particle tells time
  5. Soft Science Envy
  6. Conform and be funded?
  7. Gravitational bar detectors set limits to Planck-scale physics - Really?
  8. Private Funding for Science – A Good Idea?

2012 126

December 2012

  1. Happy Birthday Lara and Gloria!
  2. Book review: “Phantoms in the Brain” by Ramachandran and Blakeslee
  3. Merry Christmas!
  4. Large Extra Dimensions - Not Dead Yet
  5. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
  6. AdS/CFT predicts the quark gluon plasma is unstable
  7. How liquid crystals handle conflicting boundary conditions
  8. I'm populär

November 2012

  1. The Holey Grail and its Dual: From String Theory to Strange Metals
  2. Is a tabletop search for Planck scale signals feasible?
  3. There's no free lunch - and no free news either
  4. Book review: “Brain Bugs” by Dean Buonomano
  5. Thin Nematic Films: Liquid Beauty
  6. CMB anisotropy, 13 years later
  7. Program: Run your own!
  8. Interna

October 2012

  1. ESQG 2012 - Conference Summary
  2. The Craziness Factor
  3. Turbulence in a 2-dimensional Box: Pretty
  4. Book Review: "Soft Matter" by Roberto Piazza
  5. PRL on "Testing Planck-Scale Gravity with Accelerators"
  6. Towards an understanding of the Sun's Butterfly Diagram
  7. ESQG 2012 Update
  8. Clearly foggy

September 2012

  1. Book review: “The Universe Within” by Neil Turok
  2. 10 effects you should have heard of
  3. Interna
  4. Quantum Gravity in Tritium Decay?
  5. Research Areas and Social Identity
  6. Book Review “The Geek Manifesto” by Mark Henderson
  7. What are you, really?
  8. Public Attitudes to Science
  9. Questioning the Foundations

August 2012

  1. Quantum Gravity and Taxes
  2. How to beat a cosmic speeding ticket
  3. How do science blogs change the face of science?
  4. Book review: “Why does the world exist?” by Jim Holt
  5. "Rapid streamlined peer-review" and its results
  6. What is transformative research and why do we need it?
  7. Book review: “Thinking, fast and slow” by Daniel Kahneman
  8. Why does the baby cry? Fact sheet.
  9. Erdös and amphetamines: check
  10. Interna
  11. Letter of recommendation 2.0

July 2012

  1. So I made a video
  2. ORCID: Working towards a global researcher ID
  3. Neutral Kaons and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
  4. 2012 Statistics from the German Science Foundation
  5. Watching Ytterbium
  6. Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, strong and weak form
  7. Cabibbo what?
  8. 100 years ago: The discovery of cosmic rays
  9. Interna
  10. Hello, Higgs. What now?
  11. Workshop on Nonlocality, Summary

June 2012

  1. Nature = Mathematics?
  2. Catching photons
  3. Did the OPERA affair harm or benefit science?
  4. Free Book Giveaway “How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog”
  5. Anton Zeilinger ventures into art
  6. The loneliness of making sense
  7. New haircut!
  8. Also against measure
  9. Scientific Publishing - Investing in our Future
  10. Interna

May 2012

  1. Wow, I said, What's the Kuiper belt?
  2. Black hole information paradox flow diagram
  3. Book Review: "Imagine" by Jonah Lehrer
  4. How does the world of science differ from the world of art?
  5. Testing variations of Planck's constant with the GPS
  6. Are your search results Google’s opinion?
  7. Books in E major
  8. Tales from the Future
  9. A note on the black hole entropy in LQG
  10. Top Ten
  11. Imitation Nation
  12. Book review: "Infotopia" by Cass Sunstein
  13. Surprise me - But not too much

April 2012

  1. Interna
  2. The Nerdly Painter's Blog
  3. The Cosmic Ray Composition Problem
  4. Can we probe planck-scale physics with quantum optics?
  5. Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2012
  6. Schrödinger meets Newton
  7. The hunt for the first exoplanet
  8. Book review: “How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog” by Chad Orzel
  9. Some physics-themed ngram trends
  10. Be careful what you wish for
  11. Happy Easter!
  12. Book Review: "The Quest for the Cure" by B.R. Stockwell
  13. On the importance of being wrong
  14. Interna
  15. Computer Scientists develop Software for Virtual Member of Congress

March 2012

  1. Sweet Home Academia, Down Under
  2. Reflections on the paywall
  3. Book Review: "Reinventing Discovery" by Michael Nielsen
  4. What can science do for you?
  5. University dropout rates by field
  6. Workshop on Nonlocality, June 27-29
  7. Thinking the Unthinkable
  8. European Research Council refuses to require anything but excellence in research
  9. Book review: "Quiet" by Susan Cain
  10. The Edge annual question 2012
  11. Interna

February 2012

  1. Everything is amazing and nobody writes errata
  2. Gambini and Pullin: A First Course in Loop Quantum Gravity
  3. Six years Backreaction
  4. Pragmatic Paradigms
  5. Kate Findlay's LHC Quilts
  6. Pre-Print Peer Review
  7. Updated science symbol
  8. Does science need a universal symbol?
  9. When I grow up I want to be a physicist
  10. The Free Will Function
  11. The Hoganmeter
  12. No evidence for spacetime foam

January 2012

  1. Wolfgang Pauli, 1931, not so dry
  2. Interna
  3. The Planck length as a minimal length
  4. A real thought experiment that shows virtually nothing
  5. The Academic Dollar
  6. Molecei
  7. Away Note
  8. Eppley and Hannah's thought experiment
  9. What is science?
  10. Book review: "Quips, Quotes and Quanta" by Anton Z. Capri

2011 123

December 2011

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. Happy Birthday, Lara and Gloria
  3. The fifth candle: Advent calendar encore
  4. Merry Christmas
  5. Advent calendar #24: Bohr's theory of the Wild West
  6. Advent calendar #23: Moonshine in Rutherford's brain
  7. Advent calendar #22: Space, Time and Birds
  8. Advent calendar #21: Bohr and the horseshoe
  9. Advent Calendar #20: Fermi's driver
  10. Upcoming Christmas Quiz
  11. Advent Calendar #19: Confident Einstein
  12. Advent calendar #18: Heisenberg and the microscope
  13. Advent Calendar #17: Fermi's paper snippets
  14. Advent calendar #16: Stern's cigar
  15. Advent calendar #15: The end is nigh
  16. Advent calendar #14: From Hilbert with Sympathy
  17. Advent Calendar #13: A Postdoc's Nightmare
  18. Advent calendar #12: All of astronomy
  19. Advent calendar #11: Prescient Einstein
  20. Advent calendar #10: It sounds Greek to me!
  21. Advent calender #9: Prof. Jolly's advice
  22. Advent calendar #8: Einstein's old envelopes
  23. Advent calendar #7: Bullshit with equations
  24. Advent calendar #6: The dissolved Nobel Prizes
  25. Advent calendar #5: Share the love
  26. Advent calendar #4: Einstein's haircut
  27. Interna
  28. Advent calendar #3: Details are missing
  29. Advent calendar #2: Pauli and the anomalous Zeeman effect
  30. Call to readers: Send us your favorite physics anecdote!

November 2011

  1. What is all the thinking good for?
  2. New Template
  3. Book review: "Impossibility" by John D. Barrow
  4. Google Scholar Citations
  5. Spreng's triangle
  6. The Oscillating Universe
  7. Nerdy Riddle
  8. Open positions at NORDITA
  9. New constraints on cosmic strings from the South Pole Telescope
  10. What are natural units?
  11. Grassroot funding for science: A good idea?

October 2011

  1. Interna
  2. The future of the seminar starts with w
  3. Interna
  4. Super Extra Loop Quantum Gravity
  5. AdS/CFT confronts data
  6. New constraints on energy-dependent speed of light from gamma ray bursts
  7. Away note
  8. FAZ: Interview with German member of OPERA collaboration

September 2011

  1. Interna
  2. On the universal length appearing in the theory of elementary particles - in 1938
  3. Theory Carnival: Phenomenological Quantum Gravity
  4. Interna
  5. And yet it moves
  6. The Third Hand
  7. Predetermined Lunch and Moral Responsibility
  8. From my notepad
  9. Interna

August 2011

  1. Will AI cause the extinction of humans?
  2. FQXi Conference 2011
  3. Away note
  4. Physics and Philosophie
  5. What makes you you?
  6. Was there really a man on the moon? Are you sure?
  7. Condensed penguins
  8. Rehumanized
  9. This and That

July 2011

  1. Interna
  2. Prediction is very difficult
  3. Blablameter
  4. Do cell phones cause tinnitus?
  5. Book review: World Wide Mind by Michael Chorost
  6. Collective excitement
  7. Love to wonder
  8. Finetuned
  9. Getting cuter by the day...
  10. Why do we live in 3+1 dimensions? Another attempt.

June 2011

  1. This and That
  2. Interna
  3. No I wont agree to disagree
  4. Exploring Self-perception: Zakaryah Abdulkarim
  5. Nonlocal correlations between the Canary Islands
  6. New Painting
  7. Extra Dimensions at the LHC: Status Update
  8. Stronger than the universe
  9. Four links to Paul Dirac

May 2011

  1. On the Importance of Phenomenology
  2. Interna
  3. The cube of physical theories
  4. Interna
  5. Filter bubbles
  6. On the measurement of happiness
  7. Hello from Perimeter Institute

April 2011

  1. Interna
  2. So you want to get a PhD?
  3. Robert Bosch Foundation: Seven points to improve research
  4. You are Ein Stein
  5. Multiversing around
  6. Citation Ponzi Sheme discovered

March 2011

  1. Interna
  2. What is mathematics good for?
  3. This and That
  4. Causes of women's underrepresentation in science
  5. Evolving Dimensions
  6. This and That
  7. Societal Fixed Points

February 2011

  1. Interna
  2. Five years Backreaction
  3. Plagiarism 2.0
  4. The Cosmic Neutrino Background
  5. Book review: "A Brilliant Darkness" by João Magueijo
  6. A Peek Inside the Perimeter Institute
  7. Book review: “The Shape of Inner Space” by Yau and Nadis
  8. Sunny with scattered papers

January 2011

  1. Most courageous postdoc: Daniel Bedingham
  2. This and That
  3. Interna
  4. Secrets
  5. How to improve the world? Quick! In 140 characters or less.
  6. E8 on a T-shirt!
  7. Is the universe fine-tuned for life?
  8. This and That
  9. Fun with the h-index

2010 139

December 2010

  1. Welcome Lara and Gloria!
  2. Merry Christmas!
  3. Interna
  4. Evidence of Eternal Inflation in the CMB?
  5. Time to democratize science?
  6. Book review: “Stiff” by Mary Roach
  7. This and That
  8. The inevitable outcomes from basic research - ?

November 2010

  1. Recent Distractions
  2. Nonsense people once believed in
  3. Interna
  4. This and That
  5. Religion: A temporary phase in mankind’s history?
  6. Americans prefer Swedish wealth distribution
  7. Learning: school versus university
  8. Book Review: "Origins" by Annie Murphy Paul
  9. Interna

October 2010

  1. This and That
  2. Short-term thinking
  3. If you're interested in the phenomenology of quantum gravity...
  4. Science changes, for real
  5. test* the hypothes*
  6. Cosmic Strings
  7. From IGNobel to the Nobel Prize
  8. Einstein on the discretenes of space-time
  9. Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity - Workshop Summary

September 2010

  1. Discovery or Invention?
  2. Dance your PhD
  3. Spaces
  4. 1+1=2+ɛ... +δ
  5. Visit to CERN
  6. This and That
  7. “Most Couragous Postdoc” Prize
  8. In the hospital

August 2010

  1. Body Worlds
  2. Testing the foundations of quantum mechanics
  3. Book review: You are not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
  4. Worries
  5. More recent distractions
  6. Technology in Higher Education?
  7. An update on the status of DSR
  8. Rumors
  9. Collective Intelligence

July 2010

  1. Note from Away
  2. Detection of Dark Energy on Earth? - Improbable
  3. Physics or Philosophy?
  4. Recent Distractions
  5. Non-Gaussianities in the CMB
  6. ESQG 2010 Conference Photo
  7. ESQG 2010 - Finally here!
  8. This and That
  9. In Praise of Black Holes
  10. Blogger Bug
  11. Magic
  12. Vuvuzela!

June 2010

  1. Déjà vu
  2. The left-handed Piano
  3. Hello from Bonn
  4. Guestpost: Marcelo Gleiser
  5. Closer to Truth...
  6. Interna
  7. Science Metrics
  8. Why do people get tattooed?
  9. Book review: From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll
  10. Perimeter Institute is looking for a Scientific IT specialist
  11. Diamonds in Earth Science
  12. Impressions from the PI workshop on the Laws of Nature
  13. Update on the ESQG 2010

May 2010

  1. Interna
  2. Learning to deal with information
  3. On the Edge of Chaos
  4. Terra Incognita
  5. Abramowitz/Stegun goes online
  6. The Future of the Conference
  7. Paradigm Shifts
  8. Under Construction
  9. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge
  10. Interna
  11. Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
  12. Physics Bits and Bites
  13. Publication Cut-off

April 2010

  1. It's the stupidity, stupid
  2. Oh-oo-oh, you think you're special
  3. A culture for debate?
  4. Occupational Risk
  5. It comes soon enough
  6. Hello from Germany
  7. Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice
  8. Unfriendly Skies
  9. What I am is what I am
  10. Whodunit?
  11. OJ 287
  12. Need a boost?
  13. Peer Review VI
  14. This and That
  15. Baby Universe Created in Particle Smasher

March 2010

  1. Against Measure
  2. Experiments with GPS
  3. So what do you do?
  4. If you watch one video today...
  5. Update on the origin of highly energetic cosmic rays
  6. Publish or Publish? Or maybe Publish?
  7. ESA's Living Planet Program
  8. Interna
  9. What I learned today
  10. The Frog Spawn Picture
  11. Poll: Do you believe in extraterrestrial life?
  12. This and That
  13. What's in a book?
  14. The Box-Problem in Deformed Special Relativity
  15. Gravity is Entropy is Gravity is...

February 2010

  1. Yes, We Can't
  2. The Stephen Hawking Centre
  3. Happy Birthday
  4. Interna
  5. Addicted!
  6. Endless Talking
  7. Free Falling
  8. 350 years Royal Society
  9. This and That
  10. Why, oh why, is the Psi called Psi?
  11. Black Holes and Information Loss
  12. The LHC Proton Source
  13. LaserFest 2010
  14. Bloggy Notes

January 2010

  1. Interna
  2. Division by Zero
  3. Update on the ESQG 2010
  4. Reflections on the Sun
  5. This and That
  6. And the Winner is: Second Prize for "At the Frontier of Knowledge" in the FQXi Essay Contest
  7. Seminar Walkthrough
  8. Google Streetview: Physics Institutes
  9. How Is The Internet Changing The Way I Think?
  10. A splendid light has dawned on me …
  11. Utopia and Dystopia of Academia
  12. Surfing the Universe
  13. Is Physics Cognitively Biased?
  14. Please leave nothing to my imagination

2009 167

December 2009

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. What is a scientific prediction?
  3. Find of the Week
  4. Weltmaschine
  5. Merry Christmas!
  6. So this is Christmas
  7. From a Distance
  8. Let it Snow
  9. What is Natural?
  10. Interna
  11. To whom it may concern
  12. She figures there's way to go
  13. Hello from Utrecht
  14. The Nature of Laws
  15. Whatshallmacallit?
  16. This and That + Interna

November 2009

  1. The Causal Diagram of the Black Hole
  2. With kisses from Germany
  3. Swedish Research Council requires Open Access
  4. Causal Diagrams
  5. Thoughts and Experiments
  6. HIT, the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center
  7. Urban Physics Myths
  8. Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2010
  9. The Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation
  10. Einstein's Summer House in Caputh
  11. Are you what you are or what?

October 2009

  1. The Photon and its Cousins
  2. Science Park "Albert Einstein" Potsdam
  3. Seminar at the Albert-Einstein Institute
  4. Q2c
  5. Science, Writers, and the Public - A bizarre love triangle
  6. 125 Years of Greenwich Longitude
  7. This and That
  8. Intellectual Elitism? You get what you give.
  9. Soundbites from the Atlanta Conference
  10. What is ultimately possible in physics?

September 2009

  1. Hello from Atlanta
  2. Interna
  3. Seminar in Uppsala
  4. Looking back at Perimeter Institute
  5. Books
  6. Light Bulbs and the Solar Energy Production
  7. Update on the GEO 600 "Mystery Noise"
  8. This and That
  9. The Minimal Length in Quantum Gravity: An Outside View
  10. Interna
  11. Virtual Shipspotting
  12. Celebrating the Launch of FAIR

August 2009

  1. Interna
  2. Paper Zapping
  3. A little less conversation, a little more science please
  4. Anonymity in Science
  5. Office Stuff
  6. That Photon from GRB090510
  7. News from Other Worlds
  8. Four Stages of Science
  9. Interna
  10. This and That
  11. Röser's equation, again
  12. And how open would you want your science?

July 2009

  1. Book Review: “The Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki
  2. Röser's equation
  3. Copernicium and the Island of Heavy Nuclei
  4. This and That
  5. Hello from Stockholm
  6. Hubble 3D
  7. What is Fundamental?
  8. FQXi on the Azores
  9. The Future of Sex
  10. Drained Brains
  11. How about a Science Fiction Journal?
  12. This and That
  13. Giant Thistle
  14. Why are modern scientists so dull? And why that question is nonsense.

June 2009

  1. 10 Reasons Why I Hate Your Website
  2. SuperPoke! Pets - An Emerging Market
  3. Constraining Modified Dispersion Relations with Gamma Ray Bursts
  4. Imagine there's a war and nobody notices
  5. Author Identifier on the Arxiv
  6. Who wants tenure anyway?
  7. Summer Solstice in Germany
  8. Perimeter Institute Grows
  9. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Human Brain
  10. Shrinking Betelgeuse
  11. Quantum To Cosmos
  12. This and That
  13. Hello from the SUSY 2009
  14. This and That
  15. Upcoming Conferences
  16. Public Display of Attention

May 2009

  1. The Future of Rationality
  2. Networks
  3. Experimental Interferometry, Continued
  4. This and That
  5. Rental Fraud on Craigslist
  6. Experimental Interferometry
  7. Is 1 = 0.999999... ?
  8. Hubble, Herschel, Planck
  9. Reflections from PI’s economics conference, May 1-4 2009
  10. Book review: "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama
  11. A Day at the APS April Meeting
  12. The Best Years of Your Life
  13. Counting Atoms in a Sphere

April 2009

  1. Forced Desynchronization
  2. This and That
  3. Top intelligent community
  4. Recession Playlist
  5. Quick, don't think: What's typically German?
  6. Yes, but are you a prime-number?
  7. How important is talent?
  8. Women in Physics
  9. Physics of Socio-Economic Systems: Soccer
  10. Moving on
  11. Howard Burton: First Principles
  12. Springtime in Waterloo!
  13. This and That
  14. Quantum Gravity in GRB 080916C ?
  15. Science News

March 2009

  1. Visit at Nordita in Stockholm
  2. Quick, don't think: What's typically American?
  3. Science and the Economic Crisis
  4. DPG meeting Dresden
  5. Hello from Germany
  6. CERNland
  7. Interna
  8. Political Ideologies
  9. GLOBE at Night
  10. Obamania Contd.
  11. The And of the World as We Know It
  12. This and That
  13. Vague but exciting – 20 Years of WWW
  14. The Trouble with Economics
  15. Holographic Noise

February 2009

  1. The Price We Don't Pay
  2. What does the American Dream mean to you?
  3. Did you know... (VII)
  4. Three Years of Backreaction
  5. Book Review: Naomi Klein "The Shock Doctrine"
  6. International Mother Language Day - February 21
  7. Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon
  8. This and That
  9. Do we need Science Journalists?
  10. Assumptions and Limitations
  11. My Computer has Insomnia
  12. Science and Democracy IV
  13. Singularities in your Kitchen
  14. Bizarre Snow Formation
  15. What is the world coming to?
  16. Corot-Exo-7b: A Venus in another World

January 2009

  1. Water is blue ... because water is blue
  2. This and That
  3. Change You Can Believe In
  4. Conservative solutions to the black hole information problem
  5. Interna
  6. This and That
  7. How to Fix The World
  8. No "ama"s yet
  9. Comments temporarily disabled
  10. Monsters
  11. Jeffrey Sachs makes a Case for Bigger Government
  12. Photos from Brazil
  13. Backreaction meets Theorema Egregrium
  14. Book Review: “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins
  15. Britain from Above
  16. Guestpost: Dan Falk on the Nature of Time
  17. This and That

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December 2008

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. The Two Cultures
  3. We are Einstein
  4. We Feel Fine
  5. Guestpost: Christoph Schiller about Motion Mountain
  6. Merry Christmas!
  7. What if... #24
  8. What if... #23
  9. What if... #22
  10. PS on "Chaos, Solitons and Self-Promotion"
  11. What if... #21
  12. What if... #20
  13. What if... #19
  14. What if... #18
  15. What if... #17
  16. What if... #16
  17. What if... #15
  18. Who owns this blog?
  19. What if... #14
  20. What if... #13
  21. World's Friendliest Countries
  22. What if... #12
  23. Perimeter Scholars International
  24. What if... #11
  25. What if... #10
  26. What if... #9
  27. Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?
  28. What if... #8
  29. PS on "The Block Universe"
  30. What if... #7
  31. What if... #6
  32. What if... #5
  33. What if... #4
  34. What if... #3
  35. What if... #2
  36. When Capitalism Fails
  37. What if...

November 2008

  1. Stephen Hawking to Visit Perimeter Institute
  2. Galileo and the Discovery of a New World
  3. Dancing Droplets and Spherical Harmonics
  4. Backreacting Personality
  5. Chocolate Promises
  6. Library Mail
  7. A town rips up
  8. Peer Review V
  9. Revenge of the Nerds
  10. It's a man's world...
  11. This and That
  12. Chaos, Solitons and Self-Promotion
  13. Technetium-99
  14. Bullshit with Equations
  15. The Other Side
  16. Trickle Down
  17. Gallery of Fluid Motion
  18. Congratulations, Obama!
  19. Infinity Really is Different

October 2008

  1. Lorentz Transformations
  2. Excusable
  3. Gibberish
  4. Socialism and Social Democracy
  5. Project Help
  6. The Lightcone Institute
  7. Think ahead
  8. Shut up and Calculate
  9. Waterloonitis
  10. Ten Steps to Improve the World
  11. Ice IX
  12. Fresh Apple Juice
  13. Quiet
  14. Distorted Science
  15. This and That
  16. Canada votes
  17. Happy Thanksgiving!
  18. This is your economy on drugs
  19. Book Review: Who Controls the Internet?
  20. Noble Prize in Physics 2008
  21. MESSENGER at Mercury, Flyby 2
  22. This and That
  23. The End of Arrogance?
  24. The most lopsided tower
  25. Hugging the Sheep

September 2008

  1. The Cepheid Galactic Internet
  2. Web Science
  3. This and That
  4. 100 Years of Space-Time
  5. Villa Bosch
  6. Parallel Worlds
  7. Physics: Spotlighting Exceptional Research
  8. My husband sent me these beautiful flowers...
  9. Science in the 21st Century: Summary
  10. Sticky notes
  11. Science and Politics
  12. Black Holes at the LHC - and again
  13. Science is a Worldview
  14. CERNism
  15. Interna II
  16. Interna
  17. Brian Greene's public lecture
  18. Turtles all the way up
  19. Science 2.0

August 2008

  1. Science in the 21st Century
  2. Emergent Gravity
  3. The world's most powerful woman
  4. Electronic System for Travel Authorization
  5. Will Physics turn into Philosophy?
  6. This and That
  7. Why is there nothing instead of something?
  8. From a Distance
  9. I will derive
  10. Would you buy a car powered by Microsoft?
  11. The Equivalence Principle
  12. SciFoo Before- and Afterthoughts
  13. Wanted
  14. Moving
  15. SciFoo Camp: Sessions
  16. SciFoo Camp - 2nd day
  17. SciFoo Camp - 1st day
  18. Cuil
  19. Community Deconstruction
  20. This and That
  21. Lost in Information

July 2008

  1. Doctor of Philosophy
  2. Dealing with Uncertainty
  3. Book Review: “Distracted” by Maggie Jackson
  4. Blogging Heads: Woit and Hossenfelder
  5. Ghosts in Transit
  6. Liquid Helium
  7. Is there life after CERN?
  8. Openness in Science
  9. Catastrophe Conference
  10. Nothingness
  11. This and That
  12. Interna
  13. The German Academy of Sciences
  14. We have only ourselves to judge on each other
  15. Scientists and the Mass Media
  16. German Citizenship Test
  17. Yes, he can have a dream
  18. Research and Teaching
  19. Recreating the Big Bang?
  20. This and That
  21. PS to The End of Theory?
  22. The End Of Theory?
  23. PS to Canada Day
  24. Happy Canada Day

June 2008

  1. Science Mugs
  2. This and That
  3. Alice and Bob
  4. Seminar in Heidelberg
  5. The Black Hole Information Loss Paradox
  6. Cacti
  7. Black Holes at the LHC - The CERN Safety report
  8. Poll: Black Hole Information
  9. Interna
  10. Pi in a Cornfield
  11. What is a System?
  12. Discover Interview with Tegmark
  13. PS on Information Overload
  14. Information Overload
  15. The Matter of Everything
  16. Do you qualify to be German?
  17. Bad Hair Day
  18. This and That
  19. Maps of Science
  20. BioFuel
  21. Learning to Be Thoughtless
  22. PASCOS 2008
  23. Scientist's Playground

May 2008

  1. Crime Scene Investigation
  2. Bumblebees can't fly?
  3. Solid State Physics in the Garden
  4. Text + Equations = Clarity ?
  5. Nuclear Power, Return Of
  6. The Blog Universe
  7. Vampire Devices
  8. Flying Over Mars
  9. The Block Universe
  10. Science and the Web 2.0
  11. This and That
  12. The Illusion of Knowledge
  13. The Other Side
  14. PI Director Announcement
  15. TagCrowd
  16. Fun with Magnets
  17. German Interlude
  18. Hello from Germany
  19. Every Now and Then
  20. Interna
  21. Logical Fallacies

April 2008

  1. Black Holes at the LHC - again
  2. Conference Poster
  3. Spooky Action
  4. Interna
  5. HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen.
  6. Max Planck at 150
  7. On the Emergence of Lies
  8. This and That in Publishing
  9. Ninetynine-Ninetynine
  10. This and That
  11. Backboard
  12. Emergence and Reductionism
  13. Elegant proofs
  14. Poll results: look who's doping
  15. Let Me Entertain You
  16. Models and Theories
  17. The Elastic Mind
  18. Science in the 21st Century
  19. Black Holes at the LHC - What can happen?
  20. The Black Hole Bomb

March 2008

  1. Book review: Complex Adaptive Systems, by John Miller and Scott Page
  2. Lost in Translation
  3. This and That
  4. Hazardous Quantum Mechanics
  5. 10 effects you should have heard of
  6. How the Easter Bunny gets its Eggs
  7. Interna
  8. Experimental Traffic Jams
  9. Can Technology make us Happy?
  10. SciBarCamp
  11. PI day Captcha
  12. Here it goes again
  13. Historical Meme: Seven Things about Richard Carrington
  14. Dangerous Implications?
  15. International Women's Day
  16. Lunar Eclipse from Mauna Kea
  17. Talk like you want
  18. Cookies, Palygorskite, and Maya Blue

February 2008

  1. Why $20 for a paper?
  2. Astronomical Observatories on Google Maps
  3. Happy Birthday, Backreaction!
  4. Random Browsing: Online Access to Physics Journals
  5. Timeout
  6. Of the week
  7. Scientific Integrity
  8. Book Review: The Ingenuity Gap
  9. Customer Satisfaction
  10. Potholes
  11. October 26, 2144: Eclipse at Waterloo, ON
  12. That and This
  13. Help Your Country - Die Young
  14. Peer Review IV
  15. This and That
  16. Peer Review III
  17. Science in the 21st Century
  18. PPS on Cast Away

January 2008

  1. Messenger, Mercury, and General Relativity
  2. Christmas World
  3. PS on Cast Away
  4. Cast Away
  5. Sexed Up
  6. PS on GZK Cutoff
  7. Light Deflection at the Sun
  8. Still haven't closed my US Bank account...
  9. Growing Mountains
  10. Mirror
  11. Pirsa
  12. Germenglish
  13. Mercury looks like the Moon, nearly...
  14. This and That
  15. The Spirits that We Called
  16. Big Bang V2.0
  17. Sense About Science
  18. Interna
  19. Ranking of Excellent European Graduate Programmes
  20. The Higgs Mass
  21. On The Edge
  22. This and That

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December 2007

  1. Daemons
  2. Trend of arXiv submissions: Update
  3. Did you know... (VI)
  4. Trend of ArXiv Submissions
  5. Winter Wonderloo
  6. Merry Christmas!
  7. iPostDoc Playlist - Christmas Edition
  8. The Unitary Triangle
  9. The Quantum Hall Effect
  10. Treehugging
  11. Winter Solstice
  12. The Cosmological Parameters
  13. The J/Psi and the Charmonium Spectrum
  14. Indirect Detection of Gravitational Radiation
  15. Neutrino Masses and Angles
  16. PS on "ain't it thrilling"
  17. Three Neutrino Families
  18. ain't it thrilling
  19. Gravitational Microlensing for Detection of Extrasolar Planets
  20. Posts per Second
  21. Asymptotic Freedom and the Coupling Constant of QCD
  22. The Photoelectric Effect
  23. The Hadron-Muon Branching Ratio
  24. The Band Structure of Gallium Arsenide
  25. Running Coupling Constants
  26. The Hydrogen Spectrum and its Fine Structure
  27. The J/Psi Resonance
  28. The CMB Power Spectrum
  29. US $ versus Loonie
  30. This and That
  31. The Phase Diagram of Nuclear Matter
  32. Skymap of AGNs with Cosmic Ray Events
  33. Magnetism and the Ising Model
  34. Rotational Curves of Galaxies
  35. Phase Diagram of Water
  36. A Plottl a Day

November 2007

  1. Robert Berdan: Photography, Art and Science
  2. A Limerick
  3. Fact or Fiction?
  4. Progress
  5. Baruch Spinoza born 375 years ago
  6. ESQG 2007 Summary
  7. Happy Thanksgiving!
  8. Blaise Pascal, Florin Périer, and the Puy de Dôme experiment
  9. Sand Fantasy
  10. The Cosmological Constant
  11. PS on 'Renormalization'
  12. After Math: The Lisi-Peak
  13. Universal Scaling at Deadlines
  14. Anonymity
  15. Photic sneeze reflex
  16. Science Blogs in German
  17. Renormalization
  18. Gravity Waves in the Sky
  19. News from AUGER
  20. A Theoretically Simple Exception of Everything
  21. The Casimir Effect
  22. You Have Mail
  23. Groups, Lies, and Assholes

October 2007

  1. Comet 17/P Holmes
  2. This and That
  3. The Information Triangle
  4. Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity
  5. Contemporary - Contd.
  6. Book Review: The Upside of Down
  7. A kind of Calendar
  8. Large N Species
  9. Small World
  10. The Blue LED
  11. Chicken, Chicken, Chicken
  12. Frankfurt Book Fair
  13. PS on The Mathematical Universe
  14. The Four Elements
  15. The Mathematical Universe
  16. Nobel Prize awarded to Ertl
  17. Nobel Prize awarded to Fert and Grünberg
  18. This and That
  19. Art and Communication
  20. Did you know... (V)
  21. The Complex Plane
  22. Sputnik, fifty years later
  23. Scenes
  24. Surface Tension

September 2007

  1. Communication
  2. Apples
  3. This and That
  4. The Imaginary Part
  5. First Day of Fall 2007
  6. Unparticles
  7. The Trouble With Physics: Aftermath
  8. Science Coverage in Newspapers - the Understatement of The Globe and Mail
  9. The Future of the Book
  10. Voyager's Grand Tour
  11. Defects
  12. 9/11
  13. Wings of Paradise
  14. Einstein's Bees - Update
  15. A View from the Stratosphere
  16. The Name Game
  17. Luboš Motl
  18. Disaster Simulation
  19. Update on the "Black Hole" on Mars

August 2007

  1. Broadcast Yourself
  2. Sexist?
  3. Happy Birthday!
  4. Hiatus Announcement
  5. Links and Things
  6. MAGIC's observation of Gamma Ray bursts
  7. Mira, the Marvellous Star
  8. Intimidation
  9. Withdrawal
  10. After Work Chill-Out
  11. Disambiguation
  12. The Other Side
  13. Back-Reaction Poll
  14. This and That
  15. Hans-Christian Ørsted and electromagnetism
  16. Google Inside Out
  17. Beauty
  18. 10 Things you didn't know...
  19. Dangerous Ideas
  20. The Physical Tourist in Frankfurt (1)
  21. Garrett Lisi's Inspiration
  22. Daydreaming
  23. The Right not to Know
  24. Auenland

July 2007

  1. Consistency
  2. Sphere
  3. FIAS, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
  4. Don't fart
  5. This and That
  6. GZK cutoff confirmed
  7. The LHC at Nature Insight
  8. Phenomenological Quantum Gravity
  9. PS on Zeitgeist...
  10. AvH's 10 point plan
  11. Zeitgeist...
  12. What's new?
  13. First Light for the Gran Telescopio Canarias
  14. Potentially Insane
  15. Cracks
  16. Shrinking Earth
  17. Today on the Arxiv
  18. Monday Links
  19. The LHC Theory Initiative
  20. Pieces
  21. It's all about sex...
  22. The Planck Scale
  23. Fourth of July
  24. Terascale Alliance

June 2007

  1. Impressions from the Loops '07
  2. Philosophia Naturalis Blog Carnival
  3. Ever heard of of planet Eris?
  4. Loops'07 in Morelia
  5. The GZK cutoff
  6. Random Sampling: Scientific American, October 1960
  7. Save Money on Health Insurance
  8. Trains and Airplanes
  9. Positively Crazy
  10. Frascati
  11. Blog Life
  12. Smile
  13. Femme fatale, post mortale
  14. Hello from Warsaw!
  15. The Early Extra Dimensions
  16. Hello From Rome!
  17. arXiv User Survey
  18. The Teddy Factory
  19. Bouncing Neutrons in the Gravitational Field

May 2007

  1. Interna
  2. A "Black Hole" on Mars
  3. The Doomsday Argument
  4. Interna
  5. Bonne Anniversaire, Georges Remi!
  6. Asymptotic Backreaction
  7. Relax while waiting
  8. PI's duck
  9. Prime Minister visits PI
  10. Where is the Hubble Space Telescope?
  11. You Have Mail...
  12. A few thunderstorms?
  13. Frankfurt Skyscraper Festival
  14. Hat Tip to Mme Curie
  15. Decoherence Night II
  16. Ivory Tower
  17. Did you know... (IV)
  18. Millikan Oil Drops
  19. Genius and Insanity
  20. Infotainment
  21. Einstein's Garden
  22. A Nursery Rhyme: Maikäfer Flieg!
  23. Science's way of flip-flopping
  24. The most polite city of the world

April 2007

  1. Guest Post: Bill Zajc
  2. Henri Poincaré
  3. FORTRAN at 50, inventor John Backus passed away
  4. Without Time
  5. Happy Birthday Wolfgang Pauli
  6. Nabla
  7. Einstein's Bees
  8. Local Warming
  9. Temporary Blackberry Trouble
  10. Sex
  11. Wireless Power
  12. Leonhard Euler 300
  13. Black Hole Session
  14. Einstein reloaded
  15. Is time an illusion?
  16. DreamWorks goes Extra Dimensional
  17. Global Warming
  18. Happy Easter !
  19. Frankfurt ranks Top 7 City in the Quality of Living
  20. Virtual Stargazing
  21. Springtime!
  22. Could Gambling Save Science?
  23. Transatlanticism
  24. Spectator of the show

March 2007

  1. A tree in the forest
  2. Sexual Network
  3. Prehistoric Sidewalk
  4. Atlas
  5. Guest Post: Huang Mei
  6. Jungfraujoch
  7. This and That
  8. Filtering Gravity
  9. Canada is great...
  10. Science and Democracy III
  11. Guest Post: Yidun Wan
  12. Sword Blades
  13. Atomic Flowers
  14. PI day
  15. Good physics is conflict
  16. #34
  17. Why I am a physicist: Stefan Scherer
  18. Decoherence Dance
  19. Echo: DDR as a Test Model
  20. LaTex Test
  21. Temporary Display - contd.
  22. Temporary Display?
  23. Empty Wall
  24. I want to ride my bicycle ...
  25. Guest Post: Christine Dantas
  26. Gravity Defyer
  27. Total Eclipse of the Moon
  28. This and That
  29. Status Report
  30. Quantum Gravity in the Lab

February 2007

  1. Disneyverse
  2. Rosetta Mars Fly-By
  3. Guest Post: Anne Green
  4. The Principle of Finite Imagination II
  5. Happy Birthday!
  6. Supernova 1987A
  7. A Tribute to Heinrich Hertz
  8. The LHC Game
  9. Guest Post: Peter Steinberg
  10. Dragon
  11. Broken Symmetry
  12. NASA launch of THEMIS Satellite
  13. Maps of Mars
  14. Big Bang Bubbles
  15. The World's Largest Microscope
  16. This and That
  17. Guest Post: Kerstin Paech
  18. Saturn in Opposition
  19. Fire Water Burn
  20. One day
  21. Power Spectrum
  22. Braindead Decisions
  23. Contemporary
  24. Guest Post: Stefan Hofmann
  25. World Champion!
  26. Your Name on The Moon
  27. 28 Days
  28. Top 10 Microphotographs of Living Things
  29. Cast a Wish
  30. The party goes on!
  31. This and That

January 2007

  1. Geothermal Energy
  2. Semifinals again!
  3. Burrito
  4. Guest Post: Tommaso - A Happy Fish
  5. Eyeglasses and the James Webb Space Telescope
  6. Brain Stretching
  7. Water in Zero Gravity
  8. Risky Research
  9. Conferences 2007
  10. Happy Birthday, Hideki Yukawa!
  11. Guest Post: Chanda
  12. Where is your mind?
  13. The Great White...
  14. Where is my mind?
  15. Circle of Carts
  16. Happy Birthday Benjamin Franklin!
  17. Micro Black Day
  18. Winter? Which Winter?
  19. The Galaxy Song
  20. New Blogger
  21. Dancing Ball Lightnings in the Lab
  22. Money Talks
  23. New Digital Camera
  24. Polar Bear
  25. This and That
  26. Priceless
  27. Albert Einstein Action Figure
  28. Physics Blogs
  29. PLoS ONE: a new "interactive" scientific journal
  30. Interference
  31. Optimists
  32. Hunger Strike for Tenure
  33. Katrin

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December 2006

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. The Common Microwave Background
  3. Cracked Pots
  4. Anomalous Alignments in the Cosmic Microwave Background
  5. Christmas Broadcast
  6. The Satire strikes back
  7. NORAD tracks Santa
  8. Home for Christmas
  9. Stuck in a Boeing
  10. Manga-Nikolaus
  11. Tagged!
  12. The Longest Night of the Year
  13. This and That
  14. Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado
  15. The Lion sleeps tonight
  16. 300 years ago: Émilie du Châtelet born in Paris
  17. The National Data Book
  18. Beauty in Physics
  19. Global Cooling
  20. PI
  21. A Tribute to my Granny
  22. Did you know... (III)
  23. Deformed Special Relativity
  24. Have a Stringy Christmas
  25. Nikolaus
  26. Book Cover Physics
  27. Low Food Security

November 2006

  1. This and That
  2. The Beauty of it All
  3. Isn't it nice...
  4. More on AdS/CFT and RHIC
  5. A Higher Dimensional Poem
  6. Did you know... (II)
  7. Hazy Shade of Winter
  8. Did you know...
  9. NASA announces Discovery of Dark Energy...
  10. PS on Dark Matter
  11. Smoke came out of our theories...
  12. Not Even Zong
  13. Hypocritical
  14. Lisa Randall on Discover
  15. This and That
  16. From a Distance...
  17. Bubbles of Nothing
  18. Feeling lucky?
  19. 50 Years Particle Data Group

October 2006

  1. Diversity in Science
  2. How to secure your WLAN
  3. Dark Matter
  4. Allusers
  5. Interna
  6. The End of Physics?
  7. Recent Arrival
  8. Oh Canada
  9. Does String Theory explain Heavy Ion Physics?
  10. Happy Thanksgiving!
  11. On the couch
  12. Interna
  13. The Inverse Problem
  14. 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics to Mather and Smoot for COBE measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background

September 2006

  1. The Omega-Minus gets a Spin (part 1)
  2. Interna
  3. Micro Black Holes
  4. First Day of Fall
  5. USA in transit
  6. Blind loops
  7. The Glasshouse Effect
  8. The End of Clothes
  9. 09/11/2006
  10. Waterloo
  11. Pencils, Black Holes, and the Klein Paradox
  12. Good Bye Santa Barbara
  13. Smart Crash

August 2006

  1. The Small Differences
  2. A Scientific Bookstore in Frankfurt?
  3. The Squirrel Factor
  4. How are you today?
  5. Quark Gluon Plasma
  6. The Bumpy White String
  7. More Trouble with Physics
  8. NASA Announces Dark Matter Discovery
  9. The only Way to do Physics
  10. Interna
  11. A Physical Tourist in Berlin
  12. Lee Smolin's Trouble with Physics
  13. Lee's comments

July 2006

  1. Surprise, and Pride
  2. Logical Song
  3. Thoughts on the Anthropic Principle
  4. UPS Quantum View
  5. Neutrinos for Beginners
  6. Quatorze Juillet
  7. Super Possum Synchroton
  8. Comment on Science Journalism
  9. Black Holes And Revelations
  10. Peter Woit's Not Even Wrong
  11. Science Journalism
  12. Extra Dimensions
  13. Stupid Title List
  14. Bra-Cat
  15. Top 5 / Top 50 Science Blogs
  16. A modern Stonehenge
  17. Top Ten

June 2006

  1. Wedding Photos
  2. Gravity's Relentless Pull
  3. Science and Democracy II
  4. Black - Red - Gold
  5. Marital Status
  6. Beautiful design
  7. Germany vs. Equador 3:0
  8. World of Wonders
  9. Jet-lag
  10. Black Hole Bag
  11. Impressions from the SUSY 06
  12. Squeeze my brain
  13. Science and Democracy
  14. SUSY 2006
  15. Talks on Planck 2006, Paris
  16. Paper Recipe
  17. Leaving Home

May 2006

  1. Excuse me
  2. Paris, Planck 2006
  3. Nonlocality
  4. Dreamer
  5. The Principle of Finite Imagination
  6. Perimeter Institute
  7. Emmy Noether
  8. The Minimal Length Scale
  9. Why do we live in 3+1 dimensions?
  10. Honest Questions

April 2006

  1. Lisa's Warped Passages
  2. Why the Quark Gluon Plasma is a Banana
  3. Anti-Gravitation
  4. Complicated
  5. Wine and Cheese Physics
  6. Phase transition or cross over?
  7. Are You Loosing Your Edge?
  8. Congratulations
  9. Young and Stupid
  10. Mini Black Holes
  11. Hi!

March 2006

  1. Out of the blue
  2. Peer review II
  3. Finally, I made it.
  4. Crisis
  5. Peer review
  6. Signs
  7. Der alte Winter in seiner Schwäche
  8. Long distance
  9. Is America Flunking Science?
  10. Unhealthy Internet

February 2006

  1. Risky Black Holes

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