Dmitry Podolsky has got his PhD from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He currently works as postdoc at Case Western Reserve University. He is also one of the editors of NEQNET.

278. Twitter updates for 2009-02-20

Chad Orzel on #gravity probe B: http://tinyurl.com/b6cazj Ballistic acceleration of supercurrent in #superconductor: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.077001 Kinks in electronic specific heat: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.076402 #Gauge coupling unification in F-theory #GUTs: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.071601 http://tinyurl.com/df9a9k – how applied #science will look like in 2020. That’s it: Obama signed the #stimulus bill: http://tinyurl.com/bfme2c With all those stimulus money, we better be doing _really_ [...]

277. Video of the day: In search of giants

A nice video about history of particle physics (featuring Brian Cox).

275. Twitter updates for 2009-02-19

UFO? http://tinyurl.com/dfa4ld Helping underprepared students in introductory physics: http://jijr.com/ypb Sean Carroll discusses search for #Higgs boson: http://tinyurl.com/b6oqre So, it is practically certain that #Higgs with mass around 165 GeV will be found at Fermilab before 2011 #Gene duplication and evolution: http://tinyurl.com/d7vf9y Lubos Motl on weak #gravity conjecture: http://tinyurl.com/cd8263 The puzzle of planet formation: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1224 – [...]

274. Video of the day: Quark-gluon plasma at RHIC

Beautiful promo video of RHIC. Not sure what she means by “they expected to find a gas…”

272. Twitter updates for 2009-02-18

Lubos Motl on Ernst Mach: http://tinyurl.com/b2gx96 Stanleyfest at #KITP: http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/stanleyfest/ . Fascinating, Joe Polchinski’s talk is definitely worth watching. http://arxivblog.com/?p=1220 – the CORONA coronograph proved to be unable to function in Antarctica and was sent back to France. What should robots do for us? http://arxivblog.com/?p=1216 A paper is out to arxiv actually explaining that. Bizarre. [...]

271. Continuing dS/CFT – correspondence. Part 2

News: It seems that there are good news for science funding in US. Cosmic Variance points out that science funding in the stimulus package was largely restored: with 3 bill. for NSF, 1.6 bill. for DOE and 1 bill. for NASA. I really hope this is final In the mean time, when we keep waiting [...]

268. Video of the day: Sean Carroll at Google

is talking about dark energy and dark matter: Wow, not bad, I am glad to see that Googlers get more interest in science (so that the way PageRank treats science papers will be finally improved to the point where googling a research paper becomes useful ) Via Cosmic Variance.

267. Twitter updates for 2009-02-17

Jester on CDF multi-muon anomaly: http://short.to/109b Black hole hair removal: http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0359 Deformed general relativity and torsion: http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2001 Quantum data buffering scale: http://www.physorg.com/news153681740.html First draft of Neanderthal genome was unveiled: http://jijr.com/oyo Artificial arm listens to brain: New York Times http://snipr.com/bxs2b Oscillations in synthetic gene network: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.068105

266. First two weeks of February on NEQNET

It seems that I did not do summary of activities on NEQNET for quite a bit Let me first quickly go through some relevant and irrelevant statistics. First of all, the number of subscribers to NEQNET has finally crossed the magic number of 200 (two-three days ago). Thank you so much, all of you, who [...]

265. Video of the day: CMS assembly animation

An old video (2003) by CERN explaining how CMS detector was assembled. Update: If you want some relatively fresh info on CMS status, listen for Giovanni Franzoni’s talk at PI.