Entered Apprentice
114. But Korean inventors are sometimes ahead of Japanese…
as Lubos Motl indicates in comments to the previous post Indeed so, the creativity of Sumsing engineers is overwhelming! Enjoy.
109. Two horror movies: one documental, another - Hollywood
A day before my departure in Munich we watched Shyamalans The happening recently released. Personally, I like Shyamalan, especially Six sense and Unbreakable, but this one was a disaster. (…)
105. And to scare you even more…
Overall traffic (all US roads and streets) has dropped down 4.4% (equivalent to 10.7 billion vehicle miles) for September 2008 (compared to September 2007). (…)
104. World crisis - looking for a job?
US unemployment claims surged to a 16-year high, government data showed Thursday, adding to growing alarm as companies worldwide shed workers in the global economic downturn. (…)
101. Confinement. Extremely naive introduction
So, as I have promised last time, I am starting to collect my thoughts on the problem of quark confinement here. (…)
98. Rant: Big Bubble of the housing market
This post is the next one in the series devoted to the study of the global financial crisis, its origins and possible consequences. (…)
97. Second week of November on NEQNET
Physics
* Quintessence on the string theory landscape? (…)
95. One second order phase transition: video
Discussion of the Shaposhnikov-Tkachev paper has somewhat inspired me as you might expect, and I decided to browse the net for a bit That’s what I have found -
what you see below is a phase transition of the second kind, the one where correct degrees of freedom are decribed by CFT at . (…)
90. Unidentified extended sources of gamma ray emission
Here is another open problem in astrophysics :-), as far as I understand…
The H.E.S.S. system of telescopes in Namibia is among most successful instruments of its kind. (…)
89. First week of November on NEQNET
Below is the list of what I wrote on this blog during the first week of November… not bad actually, it looks like with Agata’s birth I have become more productive, not less… Surprising
In the mean time, the number of subsribers to this blog has hit the magic number 100 (and peaked at 108 :-)) Thanks for subscribing, new readers, you are very much welcome! (…)
86. Life cycle of stem cells
Since it is a weekend, I am no longer going to bother you with technical posts, even branes like ours are supposed to have some time to rest Instead reading something (that probably seems rather boring at first sight), why not enjoy the following video of the life cycle of stem cells? (…)
84. Replication DNA in the cell
One of the most important processes that will ever studied by molecular biology is the process of DNA replication - copying a double-spiral DNA molecule in order to form two of them. (…)
79. Obama is a president. What is there for us in it?
The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. (…)
74. Nima and CDF anomaly
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65. Simulations of decaying turbulence
A group of people (with Jonathan Dursi being the only one I know personally among them) has written nice review of existing software for stimulating decaying compressible (supersonic) turbulence with the goal to compare performance of the codes. (…)



