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383. Puzzling kinetics of Bose-Enstein condensation
Just finished reading a really review “Magnon BEC and spin superfluidity” by Yu. Bunkov and G. Volovik, which left me with quite a bit of material to think about… Probably the thing that stroke me most after digesting the review is how poorly I (or in truth – it’s better to say “we”) actually understand the kinetics of Bose-Einstein condensation. But before I’ll try to explain why I think so, let me briefly describe the setup discussed by the authors.
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382. Lester Lyles is not to be the next NASA administrator
Lester Lyles, retired air force general, has confirmed yesterday that he has taken his name out of consideration for the NASA administrator post. He was clearly a favorite in the run started on Jan 20, to the point that Obama administration pushed him to take the post. I think it would be fair to say – thank you, Mr. Lyles.
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380. Lightest exoplanet found: video of the day
… as announced on Apr 21. Discovered planet is only about twice as massive the Earth.
379. Thermonuclear fusion: list of posts
Before proceeding to the discussion of hydrodynamic instabilities in plasma, let me list for further reference all the posts I wrote so far about thermonuclear fusion and thermonuclear reactors:
1. Thermonuclear fusion: some basic facts about thermonuclear reactions, where I start explaining why such phenomenon as thermonuclear fusion can even take place in Nature 
I also briefly discuss the issue of Coulomb barrier and two possible strategies to overcome it.
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378. Sounds of Jupiter: video (or better say – audio?) of the day
Damn if it does not sound like Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: Space odyssey” Did he actually know? Although these particular sounds were recorded in 1988, I bet people have heard them back in 1950s-60s, and Clarke should have told Kubrick about them.
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