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.

264. Twitter updates for 2009-02-15

Evolution: unnatural selection http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457803a Tunable delay in EPR entanglement: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07751 Density of states and critical behavior of Coulomb gas: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.067205 How to measure a spinon Fermi surface: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.067204 Topological transition in a non-hermitean quantum walk: http://short.to/ysa Trapped particles in Tokamaks: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.065002 Large structure of the Universe as a probe of fundamental physics: http://pirsa.org/09020037/. Talk by [...]

262. Video of the day: so, what is this “Non-equilibrium Phenomena” stuff about?

261. Twitter updates for 2009-02-14

How to build desktop Foucalt’s pendulum: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1210 Are you a student? You might be interested in “Best student paper” competition: http://is.gd/jpHC Evolution’s influence in pulp fiction: http://snipr.com/btacu #fun. To Darvin’s day Brain and behaviour of dinosaurs: http://jijr.com/7Oe Neurological basis of intuition: http://short.to/ys5 Next gene sequencing technology pinpoint on-off switches in genomes: http://is.gd/jpJn Reading minds with [...]

260. Elegant Universe – instead of conclusion

Via Abstruse Goose. I promise to not dumb you down

259. Video of the day: Elegant Universe

Famous documentary about string theory which everybody has already probably seen

258. Twitter updates for 2009-02-13

Recent patent applications in gene expression: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt0209-145 Kip Thorne on Steven Hawking: http://snipr.com/bt9mc Hopefully, science funding in stimulus package is restored: http://is.gd/jpDf Terence Tao gives a reading seminar on density Hales-Jewett: http://short.to/ys4

256. Video fo the day: ATLAS experiment

ATLAS Experiment: mapping the secrets of the Universe – a talk by Michael Barnett (Berkeley Lab physical division):

255. Twitter updates for 2009-02-12

Econophysicists identify 10 most powerful companies in the world: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1195 Am I the only one who sometimes feels that econophysics is bullsh..t? Fixed points of stochastic maps: http://tinyurl.com/dakrlp A fun story about zeta-function: http://snipr.com/bppeg Terence Tao shows his collection of LaTeX bugs in WordPress: http://is.gd/jdCo A lifeline for the biotech sector: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt0209-123 Govers on quasirandomness: [...]

254. Continuing dS/CFT – the correspondence. Part 1

When I’ve discussed dS/CFT correspondence last time, I listed several criticisms of it, but probably had to explain in the first place what is the essence of dS/CFT According to Bousso, Maloney and Strominger, the correspondence works as follows. First of all, de Sitter space does not have a nice spatial infinity like AdS space [...]

253. Video of the day: first time machine

Discovery Channel program (for children really – but featuring Ronald Mallett from the U. of Connecticut) related to the problem N1 in my list. NEQNET would like to state officially that time travel is impossible