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June 2009 (32)
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20: Saturday’s photoguess: what does this monkey symbolize? (10)
19: Dynamics of space storm (0)
18: One step for a Man (2)
17: LISA technology and instrumentation (0)
17: Test beam for LHCb (0)
16: A bit about climate change (8)
15: Susskind’s lectures on cosmology (2)
15: Other interesting things in ArXiv (12 Jun 2009) (0)
13: How to use technology to teach undegraduate biology (0)
13: The very meaning of socialism (26)
12: Lithium problem (1)
12: Rocky Kolb’s lecture on Dark Universe (0)
12: Other interesting things in ArXiv (11 Jun 2009) (2)
11: Notes on strongly coupled QCD in the continuum (0)
11: Carnegie Mellon’s contribution to Star Trek universe (0)
10: Tour of Ares IX (0)
10: Into dark ages or again about GRB090423 (3)
09: How to spot a black hole on the Sky (0)
08: This and that in ArXiv on Monday (1)
08: Three last Susskind’s lectures on general relativity (0)
06: On Harvard – again (4)
06: Saturday’s photoguess: what are they doing? (9)
05: JHEP is to be published by Springer (3)
05: Biocentrism: book review (24)
04: Harvard near bankruptcy (7)
04: Small amphibian collider (1)
04: Michio Kaku on artificial intelligence (0)
03: How many scientists fabricate or falsify their research? (5)
03: An exoplanet near ultracool star (0)
02: Jim Simons and C.N. Yang interviewed by Bill Zimmerman (0)
01: How might one design a nano-machine? (0)
01: Google Wave (4)

May 2009 (37)
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30: The coming collapse of the middle class (12)
29: Workshop on tests of gravity in Case Western – day 2: aether and modified gravity (9)
29: Susskind’s general relativity – lecture 9 (0)
28: Workshop on tests of gravity in Case Western – day 2 and Arkani-Hamed’s talk (7)
28: Susskind’s 8th lecture on general relativity (0)
27: Workshop on tests of gravity at Case Western – day 1 (10)
26: Things that go bump in the CMB polarization (0)
25: Real-time gauge/gravity duality (0)
22: Correlator of Wilson and t’Hooft loops at strong coupling in N=4 SYM theory (0)
21: String theory and the diffusion equation (0)
20: Vorticity generation in cosmological perturbation theory (0)
18: Correcting the initial vacuum state in quantum gravity (0)
17: One week to spend in US (0)
16: On gun politics and culture in US (1)
16: Average life expectancy or more on data visualization (0)
15: Quantum tunneling in flux compactifications (5)
14: A bound on the speed of sound from holography? (3)
13: The in-in formalism and cosmological perturbations (8)
12: On Moore-Read states (3)
11: Fermionic Schwinger-Keldysh propagators from AdS/CFT (6)
10: Two levels of irony of waterboarding (2)
09: Deflation and credit compression for dummies (0)
08: Nanotechnology in space (1)
08: Nanotechnology for fun and profit: video of the day (0)
07: (In)visible Z’ and dark matter (0)
06: Self-improving artificial intelligence: video of the day (0)
06: More on IR divergences and decoherence in inflationary universe (0)
05: Recent LHC news: video of the day (2)
05: Practical quantum cryptography (0)
05: Dynamical maps (6)
04: Witten interviewed by Ira Flatow on Big Ideas: video of the day (0)
04: Fermi telescope does not confirm DM claims (0)
03: 387. Gapminder and dynamical visualization (2)
02: 386. Saturday’s photoguess (2)
02: 385. NEQNET: Last two weeks of April (0)
01: 384. More news from NASA (14)
01: 383. Puzzling kinetics of Bose-Enstein condensation (0)

April 2009 (52)
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30: 382. Lester Lyles is not to be the next NASA administrator (1)
30: 381. M2 branes and Chern-Simons theories (1)
29: 380. Lightest exoplanet found: video of the day (0)
29: 379. Thermonuclear fusion: list of posts (0)
28: 378. Sounds of Jupiter: video (or better say – audio?) of the day (1)
28: 377. Temporal and spatial dependence of quantum entanglement (26)
28: 376. A GRB detected at z=8.3 (4)
28: 375. Inertial confinement: concluding part on lasers (1)
27: 374. How big is the Universe: video of the day (3)
27: 373. Some musings about Unruh effect (3)
26: 372. On science (in Russia) (12)
25: 371. Saturday’s photoguess (6)
25: 370. The future of science blogs (3)
24: 369. Stephen Hawking’s “Black holes and beyond”: video of the day (1)
24: 368. Inertial confinement: more on interaction of laser emission with matter (3)
23: 367. ATLAS/CERN 2009 multimedia contest: video of the day (1)
23: 366. Some interesting recent papers in Arxiv (0)
22: 365. Inertial confinement – using lasers for compression (6)
21: 364. Thermonuclear reactors. More on inertial confinement (3)
20: 363. Vector inflation (11)
19: 362. Kepler sees first light (1)
18: 361. NEQNET: first two weeks of April (0)
18: 360. ISS Tour: video of the day (1)
17: 359. Michael Griffin to fill professor’s position in Alabama (0)
17: 358. Thermonuclear reactors. Inertial confinement (3)
16: 357. Vortex line representation. Coulomb interaction of vortex lines (1)
15: 356. Cosmological parameters in the context of time varying w (2)
15: 355. Introduction into thermonuclear reactors (6)
14: 354. Vortex line representation. Clebsch variables (2)
13: 353. Vortex line representation. Cauchy invariant (33)
12: 352. 48 years ago (2)
11: 351. Girls only (2)
11: 350. V for Vendetta (0)
11: 349. The question of quality (3)
11: 348. Trading olympiad (8)
10: 347. Numerical simulation of vortices: video of the day (1)
10: 346. Thermonuclear fusion. Nuclear reaction rates – second part (3)
09: 345. Lagrangian turbulence: video of the day (5)
09: 344. Thermonuclear fusion. Coulomb barrier and reaction rates (6)
08: 343. Followup: BumpTop (8)
08: 342. Thermal equilibrium in special relativity (8)
07: 341. Nuclear fusion – energy of the future: video of the day (1)
07: 340. Thermonuclear fusion: some basic facts about thermonuclear reactions (9)
06: 339. Twistors: getting more formal (1)
06: 338. Before the Big Bang: video of the day (12)
05: 337. Twistors and non-linear differential equations. Curved spacetime (3)
05: 336. Wehrner von Braun: video of the day (0)
04: 335. What is twistor (2)
03: 334. How much should you publish? (20)
03: 333. Periodic table of elements: video of the day (0)
02: 332. NEQNET: last two weeks of March (2)
01: 331. Interview with Bogzabraloff brothers: science and religion (3)

March 2009 (42)
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31: 330. Some properties of the Burgers dynamics with Brownian or white-noise initial velocity (1)
30: 329. Human Activity in the Web (2)
29: 328. Yield curve: video of the day (0)
29: 327. Global crisis and one more plot to think about (9)
29: 326. House market bubble: brief update (2)
28: 325. Scientist’s gadgets: desktop software (22)
28: 324. Video of the day: nice visualizations of elementary particles (5)
27: 323. Fractional quantum Hall effect in some multicomponent systems (2)
26: 322. Video of the day: “Boston Dynamics” (3)
25: 321. Holographic hydrodynamics (1)
25: 320. Video of the day: STS-119 (0)
24: 319. Turbulence. Dynamical approach (1)
23: 318. Glueballs and gluelumps as bound states of transverse constituent gluons (2)
22: 317. Global crisis: one interesting plot (14)
21: 316. Richard Hamming’s “You and your research” (1)
20: 315. Turbulence: order and disorder in turbulent flow (3)
19: 314. FDT-violation in colloidal glasses under shear (1)
19: 313. Video of the day: Susskind’s lectures on general relativity 7 (1)
18: 312. Turbulence. Statistical approach 2 (7)
18: 311. Video of the day: LHC and search for the Higgs (0)
17: 310. Turbulence. Statistical approach 1 (4)
17: 309. Video of the day: Quantum revolution (0)
16: 308. Dark matter via many copies of the Standard Model (2)
15: 307. Scientist’s gadgets: Tablet PC and handwriting formulae recognition (16)
15: 306. Video of the day: Stanford’s mobile phone orchestra (2)
14: 305. First two weeks of March on NEQNET (0)
13: 304. Science in Watchmen. How Ozymandias prevented Dr. Manhattan from seeing the future (8)
13: 303. Video of the day: Susskind’s lecture on general relativity 6 (4)
12: 302. Dynamical black holes & expanding plasmas (1)
11: 301. Relating field theories via stochastic quantization (4)
11: 300. Event horizon of Sgr A* (10)
10: 299. Video of the day: Why gravity is weak (1)
09: 298. Do all spherical viruses have icosahedral symmetry? (1)
08: 297. Exact gravity dual of a gapless superconductor (8)
07: 296. Global aspects of the scalar meson puzzle (9)
06: 295. Weak lensing signal in Unified Dark Matter models (1)
05: 294. The leptonic Higgs as a messenger of dark matter (1)
04: 293. Power counting semi-classical inflation models and Higgs-Inflation (1)
03: 292. Universal properties of the U(1) current at deconfined quantum critical points (10)
02: 291. Chiral symmetry breaking in soft wall AdS/QCD model (6)
01: 290. Last two weeks of February on NEQNET (13)
01: 289. Patterned structures from a binary mixture of particles (0)

February 2009 (69)
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28: 288. A Pyramid Scheme for particle physics (5)
27: 287. Heavy quark thermalization in classical lattice gauge theory (3)
26: 286. Nambu-Goldstone dark matter (3)
25: 285. Dephasing and diffusion of quantum particles (4)
24: 284. Kerr/CFT: A paradigm to understand the entropy of real black holes? (4)
23: 283. Quantum kink and its excitations (7)
22: 282. Communication among communities (3)
22: 281. Twitter updates for 2009-02-21 (2)
21: 280. An effect – could you explain the origin? (8)
21: 279. Sommerfeld enhancement (2)
21: 278. Twitter updates for 2009-02-20 (0)
20: 277. Video of the day: In search of giants (0)
20: 276. Lattice Chirality and (non)Decoupling of the Mirror Fermions (6)
19: 275. Twitter updates for 2009-02-19 (0)
19: 274. Video of the day: Quark-gluon plasma at RHIC (3)
19: 273. Lattice Chiral Gauge Theories: What’s the Problem? (8)
18: 272. Twitter updates for 2009-02-18 (0)
18: 271. Continuing dS/CFT – correspondence. Part 2 (0)
18: 270. Cosmological fluctuations from IR cascading during inflation (21)
17: 269. Hamiltonian formulation of tetrad gravity: three dimensional case (7)
17: 268. Video of the day: Sean Carroll at Google (4)
16: 267. Twitter updates for 2009-02-17 (2)
16: 266. First two weeks of February on NEQNET (6)
16: 265. Video of the day: CMS assembly animation (0)
15: 264. Twitter updates for 2009-02-15 (0)
15: 263. Winding effects on brane/antibrane pairs (3)
15: 262. Video of the day: so, what is this “Non-equilibrium Phenomena” stuff about? (4)
14: 261. Twitter updates for 2009-02-14 (0)
14: 260. Elegant Universe – instead of conclusion (2)
14: 259. Video of the day: Elegant Universe (2)
13: 258. Twitter updates for 2009-02-13 (0)
13: 257. Counting states in the Bousso-Polchinski landscape (0)
13: 256. Video fo the day: ATLAS experiment (0)
12: 255. Twitter updates for 2009-02-12 (0)
12: 254. Continuing dS/CFT – the correspondence. Part 1 (2)
12: 253. Video of the day: first time machine (4)
11: 252. Twitter updates for 2009-02-11 (0)
11: 251. Scientist’s gadgets: Kindle 2 vs. Palm (8)
11: 250. Video of the day: Working in space (1)
10: 249. The fate of unstable gauge flux compactifications (2)
10: 248. Nature is not scale-free (5)
10: 247. Physics of turbulence: four puzzles (14)
09: 246. Twitter updates for 2009-02-09 (0)
09: 245. Interesting news from PI (4)
09: 244. An efficient local method for community detection in large networks (1)
09: 243. Turbulence: brief introduction into phenomenon (7)
09: 242. Video of the day: George Smoot on design of the Universe (3)
08: 241. Twitter updates for 2009-02-08 (3)
08: 240. On credit market debt (1)
08: 239. Susskind’s lectures on general relativity (4)
07: 238. Twitter updates for 2009-02-07 (2)
07: 237. What is eternal inflation? (0)
07: 236. Video of the day: Susskind’s lectures on special relativity 5 – 8 (3)
06: 235. Twitter updates for 2009-02-06 (0)
06: 234. Continuing dS/CFT. Why it is so hard to prove? (7)
06: 233. Video of the day: Susskind’s lectures on special relativity 1 – 4 (6)
05: 232. Twitter updates for 2009-02-05 (0)
05: 231. Don’t EVER criticize string theory (4)
05: 230. Video of the day: viscosity or the arrow of time is reversible (1)
04: 229. Twitter updates for 2009-02-04 (0)
04: 228. Book review: D. Yoshioka. The quantum Hall effect (2)
04: 227. Video of the day: Meissner effect in superconductors (4)
03: 226. Top ten open problems in physics (31)
03: 225. Video of the day: Google Earth 5 beta (3)
02: 224. Twitter updates for 2009-02-02 (0)
02: 223. Starting dS/CFT: Hilbert space (10)
01: 222. Twitter updates for 2009-02-01 (0)
01: 221. Turbulence: Kolmogorov law derived in one line (11)
01: 220. Video of the day: fluid mechanics (0)

January 2009 (57)
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31: 219. Twitter updates for 2009-01-31 (2)
31: 218. Implemented Facebook Connect! (5)
31: 217. Video of the day: standing waves (1)
30: 216. Twitter updates for 2009-01-30 (2)
30: 215. Scientific computation in the cloud (5)
30: 214. Video of the day: triumphs and challenges for modern cosmology (3)
29: 213. Twitter updates for 2009-01-29 (0)
29: 212. Video of the day: exploring black holes – lectures at MIT (3)
28: 211. Twitter updates for 2009-01-28 (0)
28: 210. Video of the day: inside LHC (0)
28: 209. Gmail can now work offline (2)
27: 208. Twitter updates for 2009-01-27 (0)
27: 207. Edward Farhi explains at Google why physicists need LHC (5)
27: 206. A conference on black holes at PI (17)
26: 205. Multifractality and metal-insulator transition (13)
25: 204. Twitter updates for 2009-01-25 (0)
25: 203. Quantum Hall effect. One open question (1)
24: 202. Twitter updates for 2009-01-24 (0)
24: 201. Breaking Symmetry (0)
24: 200. That’s right – two hundred (3)
23: 199. Twitter updates for 2009-01-23 (0)
23: 198. Fractional quantum Hall effect – a few words about theory (4)
22: 197. Twitter updates for 2009-01-22 (0)
22: 196. Video of the day: How big is the Universe? (2)
22: 195. Integer quantum Hall effect – plateaus in Hall resistivity (5)
21: 194. Another quantum flapdoodle video: BBC on bubble universe (2)
21: 193. On massive gravity in three dimensions (10)
20: 192. Video of the day: Michio Kaku on Multiverse (4)
20: 191. Integer quantum Hall effect – theory (7)
19: 190. Ex-googlers share their impressions about the company. Hilarious! (0)
19: 189. Video of the day: Murray Gell-Mann on the beauty of physics (0)
19: 188. Integer and fractional quantum Hall effect – what is it? (6)
18: 187. Twitter updates for 2009-01-18 (0)
18: 186. Video of the day: BBC on QED and Richard Feynman (8)
18: 185. And more about AdS/QCD (0)
18: 184. Scientist’s gadgets: Polycom (3)
16: 183. Constraining photon-hidden photon oscillations via CMB (0)
15: 182. Competing bounds on the present-day time variation of fundamental constants (0)
15: 181. Technological singularity is really near (0)
14: 180. Cosmology of F-theory GUTs (0)
13: 179. Followup on ekpyrosis and phoenix universe (0)
13: 178. My twitter updates for 2009-01-13 (0)
12: 177. Visionary, by James Kotsybar (2)
11: 176. A gadget (7)
11: 175. Holographic principle for dummies (9)
10: 174. Frank Wilczek on anyons (8)
09: 173. Just for meditation… (3)
09: 172. Color glass condensate and glasma (6)
08: 171. David Gross, The coming revolutions in theoretical physics (4)
07: 170. Back to AdS/QCD – interview with Josh (4)
07: 169. Treasuries bubble (1)
06: 168. Yoneya on gravity from strings (4)
06: 167. The return of the phoenix universe (1)
05: 166. Multifield Inflation with a Random Potential (I) (10)
05: 165. Back online, sorry (0)
03: 164. Physics Model (0)
03: 163. What is AdS/QCD? (10)

December 2008 (43)
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31: 162. Five most important things that happened to me in 2008 (0)
30: 161. Survival of the witless (2)
30: 160. Quantitative analysis for beginners. Dumb Gaussian approximation (0)
29: 159. San Grail? Sangria? (0)
29: 158. Young Researchers Conference at Perimeter Institute (0)
28: 157. Update on world crisis: Toyota, OPEC (2)
28: 156. Again about condensed matter applications of AdS-CFT (0)
27: 155. Witten explains how to quantize gauge theory (0)
27: 154. Solutions to problems from Polchinski, String theory (0)
27: 153. Quantum melody (2)
27: 152. Volume of the Universe after inflation (0)
23: 151. No blogging for Xmas! (5)
22: 150. Susskind’s lectures on quantum entanglement (1)
21: 149. Towers of vacua in SUSY field theories (18)
20: 148. On surface growth (12)
19: 147. Death of blogosphere, birth of blogosphere and Christmas wishes (7)
18: 146. Offtopic – are there any webmasters reading this blog? (2)
18: 145. Quantum and thermal decay in de Sitter space (0)
17: 144. For lazy, yet curious students (0)
16: 143. The structure of correlation functions in single-field inflation (1)
16: 142. Chaotic inflation on the landscape? (0)
15: 141. On information loss paradox, statistical and quantum mechanics (20)
14: 140. First two weeks of December at NEQNET (0)
13: 139. Illuminated (2)
13: 138. Synthetic biology and iGem: part 2 (1)
12: 137. Synthetic biology and iGem: interview (2)
12: 136. Google Books now include magazines (1)
11: 135. Steven Chu is the Secretary of Energy (1)
11: 134. Cosmic strings – simple and nice introduction into the topic (1)
11: 133. Multi-Field Inflation on the Landscape (1)
10: 132. Fun with Amazon.com (2)
10: 131. Non-gaussianities from postinflationary universe (2)
09: 130. A question in general relativity and another poll (11)
08: 129. Metamodern – the trajectory of technology (1)
08: 128. Melancholy (10)
08: 127. Ashtekar at Perimeter Institute (15)
07: 126. From quarks to strings. Migdal-Makeenko equation and AdS-CFT correspondence (2)
06: 125. From quarks to strings. On Liouville mode, instantons and confinement in abelian theories (6)
05: 124. Talk in Munich. Regularizing correlators of curvature perturbation (1)
04: 123. AdS/CFT and condensed matter applications (6)
03: 122. Where are quarks in the Wilson loop? (1)
02: 121. On interaction between coherent condensate and turbulent flow in two dimensions (1)
01: 120. Talk in Munich. Regularizing inflaton correlation functions (2)

November 2008 (50)
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30: 119. Fun with energy gap for QCD Born-Oppenheimer Hamiltonian (8)
29: 118. Last two weeks of November on NEQNET (0)
29: 117. Recent lattice QCD simulations – how good is QCD in the infrared? (2)
29: 116. Hawking at PI (0)
28: 115. Talk in Munich. Leading logs (0)
27: 114. But Korean inventors are sometimes ahead of Japanese… (0)
27: 113. Japanese inventors are always ahead (3)
27: 112. Talk in Munich. Other two interesting infrared scales (0)
26: 111. Talk in Munich. One interesting infrared scale in inflationary cosmology (2)
24: 110. Introducing doubt in Bayesian statistics 1 (0)
24: 109. Two horror movies: one documental, another – Hollywood (1)
23: 108. How stringy is QCD string? (8)
21: 107. New “Ender in Exile” by Orson Scott Card (0)
21: 106. Criteria for confinement. Wilson loop – getting more technical (0)
20: 105. And to scare you even more… (4)
20: 104. World crisis – looking for a job? (0)
19: 103. Criteria of confinement. Wilson loop – physical discussion (8)
18: 102. Advice, by Jim Kotsybar (0)
18: 101. Confinement. Extremely naive introduction (0)
17: 100. Little celebration (5)
16: 99. Eternal inflation with many light scalar fields (0)
15: 98. Rant: Big Bubble of the housing market (2)
14: 97. Second week of November on NEQNET (0)
14: 96. Quintessence with w less than -1 (0)
13: 95. One second order phase transition: video (5)
13: 94. Quantum scale invariance on the lattice (0)
12: 93. Second order hydrodynamic coefficients in some field theories (like QCD) (0)
12: 92. A new theory of galaxy formation needed (0)
11: 91. So sorry, but I cannot help hacking Google Blog Search (0)
11: 90. Unidentified extended sources of gamma ray emission (0)
11: 89. First week of November on NEQNET (0)
10: 88. Belavin and Zamolodchikov on 2D quantum gravity (0)
10: 87. Leptophilic dark matter (0)
09: 86. Life cycle of stem cells (0)
09: 85. Hard thermal loops: what is it? (0)
08: 84. Replication DNA in the cell (0)
08: 83. Quintessence on the string theory landscape? (1)
08: 82. Academia: is it really a cult? (2)
07: 81. Edward Witten’s talk on 3D gravity (2)
07: 80. Watching worlds collide: bubbles, bubbles, bubbles (0)
07: 79. Obama is a president. What is there for us in it? (12)
05: 78. A talk on scalar QFT, exact renormalization group and RG fixed points (0)
04: 77. 99 subsribers to RSS feed (4)
04: 76. Chaos in quantum field theory (0)
03: 75. Chaos in YM and confinement (15)
03: 74. Nima and CDF anomaly (4)
02: 73. How eukaryotic cells feel direction (0)
02: 72. Publishers and monkeys (2)
02: 71. More talks: M2 branes and AdS/CFT, correlations of low multipoles in CMB (2)
01: 70. Excess of cash and the origin of bubbles (4)

October 2008 (10)
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31: 69. Happy Halloween! (1)
29: 68. On Shakespeare (0)
28: 67. Weak lensing and modifying gravity (0)
28: 66. Some interesting talks worth watching (2)
28: 65. Simulations of decaying turbulence (0)
28: 64. Since you liked it, I gather… (0)
27: 63. A little break for a poetry (0)
26: 62. Two decisions and the worth of US economy (3)
24: 61. Rant: LHC, global crisis and switchers (11)
16: 60. Daughter (6)

June 2008 (8)
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May 2008 (20)
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April 2008 (20)
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March 2008 (12)
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