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.

220. Video of the day: fluid mechanics

Regarding the last video, NEQNET has to acknowledge that smoking cannot be considered a healthy habit! As for the first two videos – is it a simulation or something else? Tell me what you think.

219. Twitter updates for 2009-01-31

How to make a cheap nose for TNT: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457514e #chemistry #nature # @hugan Hoho, that’s a treasure! Thanks a lot! in reply to hugan # Zero-one survival behavior of cyclically competing species: http://is.gd/hJ0H #prl #evolution # “Nature” on quantum teleportation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457515a #quantum # Patterns of drug use varied throughout history: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457533b #nature # Dyakonov surface [...]

218. Implemented Facebook Connect!

Maybe, some weeks ago some of you have noticed a frame in the sidebar of NEQNET that looked like The frame then suddenly disappeared again It actually contained the implementation of Facebook Connect on NEQNET, and the buggy piece of junk did not want to work as it supposed to. It took about three weeks [...]

217. Video of the day: standing waves

Sorry for unpleasant sounds, but symmetry patterns are quite fascinating I have actually tried to do something like this at home when I was a boy. Memories, memories…

216. Twitter updates for 2009-01-30

Sleep benefits subsequent hippocampal functioning: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2253 #neuroscience # Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2246 #neuroscience # Nanochemistry in action: PRL http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.046804 #prl #nanochemistry # @CynthiaY29 Oh, thanks so much It did bring me some good traffic. Thanks again! in reply to CynthiaY29 # Localized spins on graphene: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.046801 #graphene #quantum # [...]

214. Video of the day: triumphs and challenges for modern cosmology

This is a lecture given by J. Peebles at UC Berkeley, very clear and fun to listen. The video is a bit too dark, though, so you will probably want to turn off the light.

213. Twitter updates for 2009-01-29

Galactic cold dark matter substructures: talk http://snipr.com/atf44 #darkmatter #cosmology # @KristyKiernan Yes and no. Fame is generally more attractive than genuine “pleasure of finding things out” (as Feynman called it)… in reply to KristyKiernan # @KristyKiernan … so generally famous physicists spend more time for publicity than for research. in reply to KristyKiernan # @KristyKiernan [...]

212. Video of the day: exploring black holes – lectures at MIT

Lectures by Edmund Bertschinger and Edwin Taylor (as well as actually many other people including Alan Guth) given in 2003. The technical level is “basic”.

211. Twitter updates for 2009-01-28

Hoho, Sabina Hossenfelder wrote a paper with Lee Smolin: http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3156. #blackhole #informationloss # They are trying to solve the black hole information loss paradox. # The paper is from the category “I did not solve anything, but I still want to write about it” # CV on Barack Obama and genetic determinism: http://is.gd/ho9b #obama # [...]

210. Video of the day: inside LHC

What can I say? Unless they’ll finally start colliding hadrons and discover Higgs (at least ) in the near future, the thing will remain what it is now – an overly complicated labyrinth of corridors and tubes