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.

252. Twitter updates for 2009-02-11

Conference on biohacking: http://www.atlanticnanoforum.org/programs.htm Wow! (well, synthetic biology, actually) On LHC schedule: http://tinyurl.com/aq9ctu Singularities in your kitchen: http://tinyurl.com/cwvel6 Conference on dark matter and dark energy: http://jijr.com/mX1 … and may the force be with you. Scientists study Saskatchewan meteorite: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/s…..orite.html Self-reassembling robots: http://tinyurl.com/bmavfr Lubos Motl on covariant M(atrix) theory: http://snipr.com/bnc8d Terence Tao on compactness in topological [...]

251. Scientist’s gadgets: Kindle 2 vs. Palm

Amazon has recently (announced in New York on this Monday) released Kindle 2. It is currently only available for preorder, but I still want to review it – I am a kind of familiar with the subject of ebook readers, as you will see My story begins about 5 years ago. At that time I [...]

250. Video of the day: Working in space

Astronaut Jim Newman talks at Google about his experiences of working in space during STS-51 (1993), STS-69 (1995), STS-88 (1998) and STS-109 (2002) (the latter was the fourth servisicng mission for HST). Worth watching!

248. Nature is not scale-free

Click on the image in order to see larger version. With thanks to @hugan.

247. Physics of turbulence: four puzzles

Before starting to discuss theories and models describing phenomena of weak and developed turbulence in fluids, plasmas etc., etc., let us first recall why exactly theoretical physicists were so unsuccessful so far in understanding turbulence at the quantitative level. In order not to make this post too long , I am going to list only [...]

246. Twitter updates for 2009-02-09

Non-equilibrium fluctuations in a glass forming liquid: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.055704 #prl Wurtzite BN is harder than diamond: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.055503 Lubos Motl is answering to critics of string theory: http://snipr.com/bj1sz Chamonix: workshop on LHC commission http://tinyurl.com/dj3d4w The puzzle of neutron lifetime: http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0169 Science and sociology of dark matter: http://short.to/wd7 Google and Amazon are to put more books on cellphones: [...]

245. Interesting news from PI

Has just received an interesting email: WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, February 9, 2009 ? Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is pleased to announce the appointment of nine more outstanding international scientists to the positions of PI Distinguished Research Chairs. The new Chairs include Yakir Aharonov of Chapman University, Nima [...]

243. Turbulence: brief introduction into phenomenon

About a week ago I have listed top ten open problems in physics. If you say A, you are naturally supposed to say B (especially, if readers ask you ), so, I guess, I will have to discuss each problem from the list in more details. I would like to start with the problem N3 [...]

242. Video of the day: George Smoot on design of the Universe

George Smoot, Nobel Prize 2006 winner, was invited to give a 20-minute talk on cosmology at TED. Thanks to @kusior.

241. Twitter updates for 2009-02-08

How your brain figures out that God exists: http://twurl.nl/ysq64k Drexler on nanosystems: http://tinyurl.com/byeojf What if we will run out of gas? a talk by Goodstein (Caltech) in Perimeter Inst.: http://pirsa.org/09020006/ Which part of the brain the memory is stored in? http://jijr.com/m4M Nature Nanotechnology on power of proteins: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.422 Holographic quantum liquid: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.051602 Shorting neurons with [...]