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.

186. Video of the day: BBC on QED and Richard Feynman

185. And more about AdS/QCD

Matt Reece from Princeton has kindly agreed to answer to a couple of my questions related to his comment after the interview with Josh Erlich on AdS/QCD. I hope that his answers will be as interesting for you as they were for me. In what follows D. – me, M. – Matt. D.: You said [...]

184. Scientist’s gadgets: Polycom

Dear readers, yesterday you did not have the pleasure to read (or were not disappointed by ) a new post at NEQNET, but I do have a good excuse – first time in my life I have delivered a 1 hour teleconference seminar overseas. I did need some time to prepare the presentation as well [...]

181. Technological singularity is really near

Thanks to @itscomplicated.

179. Followup on ekpyrosis and phoenix universe

As follows from the title, this is a followup on the guest post “The return of the phoenix universe” by Jean-Luc Lehners. Jean-Luc kindly agreed to answer to a couple of questions related to physics behind ekpyrosis for NEQNET. In what follows D. – me, J. – Jean-Luc. D. It is interesting that about a [...]

178. My twitter updates for 2009-01-13

Today I decided to start publishing my daily Twitter updates on the blog. One reason is that huge amount of interaction with my readers currently happens on Twitter, and sometimes something really interesting comes out of this interaction. Another reason to publish updates is to acknowledge my twitter followers – biologists, physicists, geologists, businessmen and [...]

176. A gadget

Does anybody know how this thing works?

175. Holographic principle for dummies

Since today is Sunday, nobody should be allowed to overload your brain with too technical discussion of a new paper in ArXiv (there are no new papers till Monday, anyway!). But does it mean that I will devote part of this Sunday to posting something about financial crisis instead of science? No way! Since, as [...]

174. Frank Wilczek on anyons

Another interesting recent paper in archives which a undergrad student will be able to read is the paper “New kinds of quantum statistics” by Frank Wilczek. I would say it is actually useful to read it irrespectively whether you are going to specialize in quantum field theory and string theory, condensed matter physics or quantum [...]

173. Just for meditation…

4-dimensional cube  – it is actually quite mesmerizing