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2013-05-16 17:37:53 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 20 +1s)

Daniel Baumann's online lecture notes: a whirlwind tour of all of theoretical physics.
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/db275/concepts.pdf

2013-05-16 00:24:04 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

Merida from Brave escapes a horrible dress and takes up archery. Just like the movies.
http://jezebel.com/disney-pulls-sexy-merida-makeover-after-public-backlash-494274022

2013-05-15 20:13:39 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 8 +1s)

The Kepler planet-finding satellite might be finished after a reaction-wheel failure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/science/space/equipment-failure-may-cut-kepler-mission-short.html

2013-05-15 18:02:03 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

How will humanity escape mass extinction? Space, bitches.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/surviving_the_next_mass_extinction_humans_will_need_to_leave_earth_for_space.html

2013-05-15 16:53:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Fake science journals love being added to lists. Even lists of "Fake Science Journals."
http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/05/14/please-add-my-journal-to-your-list/

2013-05-15 15:56:09 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

An in-depth review of the particle physics books by me and Lisa Randall (@lirarandall).
http://homingpigeonexperience.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/higgs-for-the-masses/

2013-05-15 01:27:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Blank on Blank: archival interviews, cleverly animated.
http://www.youtube.com/user/blankonblank/videos

2013-05-14 23:59:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Are we in a golden age of science writing?
http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/nautilus_science_magazine_laun.php?page=all

2013-05-14 20:57:29 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Occasionally I remember I have a self-centered YouTube channel. Hours of entertainment!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLRhV1rWIpm_pU19bBm_2RXw

2013-05-14 15:26:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Should science stories get star ratings to indicate likely long-term impact?
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-star-rating-for-scientific-news.html

2013-05-13 16:03:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

The lingering mystery of cosmological magnetic fields.
http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/the-mystery-of-cosmic-magnetism/

2013-05-13 15:39:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Some last thoughts on Templeton -- really, on the ethics of personal action.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/13/templeton-redux/

2013-05-13 03:15:45 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

My 1st purchase after winning the lottery will be a 1920's German Light Bulb Tester Bar.
http://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod2460908&categoryId=cat2350046

2013-05-13 01:59:56 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Old officemates reunited: Brian Schmidt and I talk about the Higgs boson.
Professor Brian Schmidt and Professor Sean Caroll: The bet and Higgs boson

2013-05-13 01:51:50 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Why does the world exist? On May 29 Jim Holt and I will reveal the answer.
http://www.lfla.org/event-detail/833/Jim-Holt-and-Sean-Carroll-

2013-05-12 20:34:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The science of using twitter to predict the future (like the winner of American Idol).
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/05/12/idol-tweets-mapping-the-social-space-with-twitter/

2013-05-10 20:11:57 (6 comments, 15 reshares, 20 +1s)

Do mathematicians have a responsibility to explain their results via lecturing?
http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/

2013-05-09 17:47:08 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 15 +1s)

Commenters at Slate not very impressed with my Templeton piece.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/i_won_t_take_money_from_templeton_science_and_religion_can_t_be_reconciled.html

2013-05-09 16:53:42 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 18 +1s)

A Christian behaving Christian-ly (toward an atheist).
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/i-get-email-a-christian-christian/

2013-05-09 16:03:06 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Who is that sexy physicist sitting at Richard Feynman's desk? (2nd video.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10036024/Richard-Feynman-Life-the-universe-and-everything.html

2013-05-08 22:36:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Bill Nye holds Neil deGrasse Tyson so Brian Greene can get his punches in.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/08/you-kids-knock-off-that-horseplay/

2013-05-08 20:56:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

I'm sure everyone wants to hear my views on the Templeton Foundation.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/08/on-templeton/

2013-05-08 15:48:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

It's not easy to tote a particle-physics experiment from New York to Illinois.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-fellowship-of-the-ring

2013-05-07 19:15:55 (9 comments, 11 reshares, 31 +1s)

This probably is the greatest car commercial of all time. Or at least the most logical.
http://io9.com/old-spock-battles-new-spock-in-the-greatest-car-commerc-493836696

2013-05-07 15:43:59 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

The move to diagnose mental illness the same way we diagnose other illnesses.
http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/07/as-psychiatry-introduces-dsm-5-research-abandons-it/

2013-05-06 17:54:10 (9 comments, 8 reshares, 42 +1s)

16-year-old protoscientist Kiera Wilmot should be lauded, not arrested.
http://www.businessinsider.com/kiera-wilmot-arrested-for-science-explosion-2013-5

2013-05-06 15:50:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Edwin Hubble's The Realm of the Nebulae -- a new edition of a classic.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/06/the-realm-of-the-nebulae/

2013-05-04 17:34:24 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Niall Ferguson apologizes.
http://www.niallferguson.com/blog/an-unqualified-apology

2013-05-04 16:20:13 (7 comments, 7 reshares, 13 +1s)

Apparently we can dismiss Keynesian economics because Keynes was a big old gay.
http://www.fa-mag.com/news/harvard-professor-gay-bashes-keynes-14173.html

2013-05-03 15:26:24 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 27 +1s)

Convergent evolution in action: caterpillar resembles Donald Trump's hair.
http://io9.com/rare-caterpillar-resembles-donald-trumps-hair-489010765

2013-05-03 00:24:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

For early risers (on this side of the Atlantic): TEDxCERN on Friday.
http://blog.ted.com/2013/05/01/6-reasons-to-watch-tedxcern-this-friday/

2013-05-02 21:33:54 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 12 +1s)

Fans of gravitational-wave astrophysics: you can declare you support for the eLISA mission.
http://support.elisascience.org/

2013-05-02 21:25:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The COUPP-60 bubble chamber, a novel way to look for dark matter, gets running.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2013/Dark-Matter-Detector-2013.html

2013-05-02 18:56:25 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Congrats to new science/philosophy mag Nautilus on a successful launch!
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/02/nautilus/

2013-05-02 00:19:38 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The universe just kind of happens; telling stories is what brings it to life.
http://nautil.us/blog/whats-your-story-the-psychological-power-of-narrative

2013-05-01 19:22:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

IBM releases an animated movie in extreme close-up: everything is individual atoms.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/05/01/a-boy-and-his-atom/

2013-05-01 19:15:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Stephen Soderberg on cinema in the modern world.
http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2013/05/steven-soderberghs-talk-san-francisco-international-film-festival.html

2013-04-30 16:15:44 (8 comments, 11 reshares, 17 +1s)

Laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood: the video version.
Sean Carroll Refutes Supernatural Beliefs

2013-04-29 15:20:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

What do philosophers believe? Here is the data.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/04/29/what-do-philosophers-believe/

2013-04-28 22:57:14 (4 comments, 22 reshares, 51 +1s)

Speaking of emergence: John McWhorter on writing, texting, and complexity.
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!

2013-04-28 21:57:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Didn't make the finals in the "What is time?" challenge. Written finalists a mixed bag.
http://www.centerforcommunicatingscience.org/2013-flame-challenge-finalists/

2013-04-28 18:29:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Deep thinkers, crackpots, and me, all waxing profound and philosophical.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/04/28/closer-to-truth/

2013-04-28 18:10:36 (5 comments, 5 reshares, 4 +1s)

David Chalmers on weak v. strong emergence. Admirably clear, though I disbelieve in "strong."
David Chalmers on Emergence

2013-04-28 17:48:33 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

Movies vs. life. Not that we hadn't noticed.
SURICATE - Movies vs. Life!

2013-04-28 05:11:03 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Daniel Day-Lewis immersed in his upcoming role: as Spielberg's "Obama."
http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/video-president-obama-daniel-day-lewis/

2013-04-28 01:41:32 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

How do physicists, astronomers, and philosophers describe themselves on Twitter?
http://lucretius21c.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/twitter-profiles/

2013-04-27 16:58:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Physics Week in Review. At Cocktail Party Physics, every single week!
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/04/27/physics-week-in-review-april-27-2013/

2013-04-26 19:25:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

New crackpot technique: threaten to not reveal brilliant insight unless I answer email. (Minutes later, decide to reveal anyway.)

2013-04-26 00:22:01 (8 comments, 13 reshares, 19 +1s)

Virtual cube-bots learn locomotion via natural selection.
http://io9.com/watch-as-these-adorable-robots-evolve-the-ability-to-wa-480989422

2013-04-25 05:26:23 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 10 +1s)

Happy Ella Fitzgerald's birthday!
Ella Fitzgerald : One note Samba (scat singing) 1969