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2013-06-19 19:32:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Particles, fields, and the future of physics (my talk at Fermilab).
http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/Lectures/LectureSeries/130612Carroll/index.htm

2013-06-19 18:08:43 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

"Religion without the supernatural" seems hard to achieve in practice.
http://choiceindying.com/2013/06/19/is-a-spiritual-non-supernatural-religion-possible/

2013-06-18 22:47:28 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

Why Ken Wilson was kind of a big deal.
http://quantumfrontiers.com/2013/06/18/we-are-all-wilsonians-now/

2013-06-18 21:29:18 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 15 +1s)

Human origins involved a lot of Pleistocene hanky-panky.
http://io9.com/a-long-anthropological-debate-may-be-on-the-cusp-of-res-512864731

2013-06-18 04:55:28 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

David Saltzberg does an amazing job with the science on The Big Bang Theory.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/big-bang-theory-david-saltzberg-science-jim-parsons-emmys/

2013-06-17 21:12:03 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

A scientist and a theologian have some wine and discuss the nature of explanation.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/06/17/explanations-god-vs-nature/

2013-06-16 23:38:48 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 11 +1s)

Apparently Ken Wilson has died. If anyone figured out quantum field theory, it was him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_G._Wilson

2013-06-16 23:29:21 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

Any group of collegial physicists will readily start fighting over Bayesian/frequentist statistics.
http://blog.richmond.edu/physicsbunn/2013/06/16/the-bayes-wars-in-science/

2013-06-15 17:59:35 (1 comments, 88 reshares, 29 +1s)

Classical sculptures dressed in contemporary clothes. Genius. 
http://todayilearned.co.uk/2013/06/13/classical-sculptures-dressed-as-hipsters-look-contemporary-and-totally-badass/

2013-06-15 17:57:29 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Free will, quantum computation, and the initial conditions of the universe.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1438

2013-06-15 01:40:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Spend your summer as a citizen scientist.
http://io9.com/we-want-you-to-become-a-scientist-513155523

2013-06-14 18:19:41 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 24 +1s)

The world is quantum, not classical. All of it.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/06/14/there-is-no-classical-world/

2013-06-14 17:46:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Why do we measure different Hubble constants nearby and far away? 
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.241305
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3121

2013-06-14 17:36:22 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Science is nerdy; tech is geeky. Comics are in between. So says the data.
http://flowingdata.com/2013/06/14/the-differences-between-a-geek-and-a-nerd/

2013-06-13 21:42:02 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Wang Chong - 1st-century Chinese philosopher, not 80's band - was an early naturalist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chong

2013-06-13 20:36:16 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

Surveillance-statism is good for business -- if you're George Orwell's publishers.
http://gawker.com/amazon-sales-of-george-orwells-1984-shot-up-7-000-thi-512603930

2013-06-12 18:05:06 (7 comments, 7 reshares, 14 +1s)

Are the probabilities of coin flips and dice rolls ultimately due to quantum mechanics?
http://nautil.us/blog/why-every-coin-flip-may-be-a-schrdingers-cat

2013-06-12 16:51:58 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Why are the Spurs up 2-1 on the Heat? A simple calculus problem, really.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/12/how-financial-arbitrage-explains-the-san-antonio-spurs-success/

2013-06-12 16:07:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Zipping through my old Chicago stomping ground to talk at Fermilab tonight. 
http://www.fnal.gov/culture/NewArts/Lectures/13-14/carroll.shtml
Tix: http://www.centerstageticketing.com/sites/fermilab/selecttix_nochart.php?s_id=306&p_id=300

2013-06-12 15:48:42 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

The International Linear Collider - successor to the LHC - is ready to get going.
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/06/international-linear-collider-ready-construction

2013-06-11 01:52:12 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 18 +1s)

11 rules of good writing we learn from Iain Banks, who just passed away.
http://io9.com/11-rules-of-good-writing-that-iain-m-banks-left-as-his-512191076

2013-06-10 23:22:15 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

The fact that "dark atoms" are cool shouldn't bias me toward the idea, but it does.
http://www.space.com/21508-dark-matter-atoms-disks.html

2013-06-10 22:49:39 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Should I worry that my grad student is working on "glueballino" dark matter?

2013-06-10 19:57:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Deborah Blum on Wisconsin's attacks on investigative journalism.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/journalism-and-democracy-in-wisconsin/

2013-06-09 18:01:05 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

A committed poetic naturalist must sometimes embrace the hate.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3004#comic

2013-06-08 17:59:55 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

I assume govt monitors every email and phone call. And everyone has access to stuff on Facebook etc, regardless of "privacy" settings.

2013-06-06 18:57:07 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

The might of Thor's hammer is experimental data; it's up to science to explain it.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/06/06/the-physics-of-thors-hammer-immortalized-in-comic-form/

2013-06-06 17:21:46 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Marriage isn't really "over." But it should be optional, not taken for granted.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/06/06/marriage-is-over-live-with-it/

2013-06-06 17:14:46 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Lectures from the Oxford symposium "Is God Explanatory?"
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV4bq2vDW158E3ZS0fjD2fiiv2ns8w6VF

2013-06-06 17:04:43 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Professor booted for sexual harassment "responds," shows himself to be a wanker.
http://mcginn.philospot.com/index.php?story=story130606-121126

2013-06-05 17:56:55 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

Black hole firewalls continue to mock physicists' deep-seated intuition.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/06/05/firewalls-burning-brightly/

2013-06-05 03:10:51 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sexual harassment in academia is a serious problem. A crackdown would be welcome.
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2013/06/reflections-on-the-mcginn-case-and-sexual-harassment-in-academic-philosophy.html

2013-06-05 01:16:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

The fun never left fundamental science! But we'll put it back anyway.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/06/04/188354347/putting-the-fun-back-into-fundamental-science

2013-06-04 15:29:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Purpose and the Universe: more proselytizing for poetic naturalism.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/06/04/purpose-and-the-universe/

2013-06-03 15:45:37 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

My "Purpose and the Universe" talk is recorded here; just scroll down on the right and click.
http://conference.americanhumanist.org/live/

2013-06-01 16:58:58 (16 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Crucial moments for freedom of protest in an Islamic society playing out in Istanbul now.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/01/us-turkey-protests-idUSBRE94U0J920130601

2013-06-01 16:02:22 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 2 +1s)

Longlist for the Royal Society Winston Prize has some pretty smashing books.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2013/jun/01/1?CMP=twt_fd

2013-05-31 14:52:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Feedback sought: new web show with me interviewing people about exciting science.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/30/new-video-project/

2013-05-31 01:01:28 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 16 +1s)

A potential dark-matter signal fades into insignificance.
http://galileospendulum.org/2013/05/30/how-a-dark-matter-signal-can-vanish/

2013-05-30 18:36:38 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Hello Seattle! Weds June 6 we'll be exploring the limits of space and time.
http://www.seattlesciencefestival.org/Science-Festival/2013-opening-closing-night-events#opening-night

2013-05-30 18:08:01 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

Hate to be such a fanboy, but Tesla is a frikkin' awesome company.
http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

2013-05-29 19:58:50 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 16 +1s)

Quantum entanglement in real time: the video.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/29/visualizing-entanglement-in-real-time/

2013-05-29 16:33:44 (12 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Radical scientists advocate rotating paper 90 degrees to fit computer screens.
http://scholardox.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/two-column-landscape-should-be-the-standard-format-of-scholarly-online-articles/

2013-05-28 21:25:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Will Smith: "At heart, I'm a physicist, trying to find ... the single equation."
http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/will-and-jaden-smith-on-working-together.html

2013-05-28 16:07:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Looking for low-mass dark matter at the LHC.
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/53406

2013-05-24 21:58:51 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Slight tension in cosmology data: supernova surveys imply more dark energy than Planck CMB data.

2013-05-24 20:55:11 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 16 +1s)

Couldn't agree more, but then again I'm a hidebound academic. (And married to the author.)
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/05/24/dear-guardian-youve-been-played/

2013-05-24 20:00:39 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 13 +1s)

How's your faith in humanity these days? 31 charts that will restore or destroy it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/24/these-31-charts-will-destroy-your-faith-in-humanity/

2013-05-24 18:16:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Caltech students have a ... unique way of blowing off steam.
http://m.caltech.edu/content/try-these-puzzles-ditch-day-2013

2013-05-24 15:29:24 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

What do Morgan Freeman and Jon Stewart chat about when they hang out? Cosmology.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/24/morgan-jon-and-the-mystifying-balloons/