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136. Google Books now include magazines
As many of you have noticed, Google have recently won the major lawsuit against publishers and authors. Here is the first consequence. Google has just announced that it is going to include all issues of such magazines as Popular Science Popular Mechanics Man’s Health Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Maximum PC many others into the [...]
116. Hawking at PI
So, all these rumors actually had something to do with reality… and those smart ons who thought that the appointment of Neil Turok as the Director of PI should at some point lead to Hawking’s relocation to Canada, were actually right. I just recieved the following email: Professor Stephen Hawking to Regularly Visit Canada’s Perimeter [...]
56. Birthday
Today, celebrating my birthday, I realized that it I may have well reached the middle of my life – considering that the average length of a russian man’s life today does not impress much (age VEV < 70, I believe). Probably, the latter has something to do with 1) our genes (that I cannot fix [...]
51. Planck 2008: day 4 – Soft wall AdS/QCD
I discuss the soft wall AdS/QCD model introduced by Batell&Gherghetta, where AdS gravity and dilaton behavior providing soft wall cutoff is introduced self-consistently.
50. Planck 2008: day 4
4th day of the Planck 2008 was devoted to unparticle physics (feat. Howard Georgi himself) and AdS/QCD.
49. Polyakov’s interview
Interview with Alexander Polyakov where he discusses how he came in science, met Lev Landau and many other interesting things from the history of modern field theory.
48. Planck 2008: day 3
The third day of Planck 2008 was devoted to experimental side of LHC, physics of hidden sectors, quirks and N=1 SQCD.
46. Leaving for Planck 2008
I am leaving for Planck 2008 conference, will be back on May 24. I hope I will have an internet connection there to be able to blog (if so, I plan to blog a bit about the conference itself ) If I will not, apperently, I’ll remain silent for a week. Cheers to you, my [...]
41. Peter Woit: What will you do if string theory is wrong?
Well, let us figure out in which sense it could be wrong 
Death of Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke, one of the best science fiction authors of 20th century, died today at Colombo Sri Lanka. The death finally cought him in the age 90; he was planning to be the guest of first hotel in the Earth’s orbit in 2017, and it is sad that he was unable to fulfil his [...]
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Large non-Gaussianity from axion inflation
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On strong disorder renormalization
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Relaunching NEQNET
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Saturday’s photoguess: what does this monkey symbolize?
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Dynamics of space storm
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Micro: Can 2 question provide a common solution? Black holes, information loss paradox and Ultra high energy cosmic rays. ...
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James Ph. Kotsybar: SAGITTARIUS A* -- James Ph. Kotsybar Mysteriously cloaked, obscure despite Interior illuminating glare, Long ...
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cad: The presentation can be found in several formats at http://pirsa.org/08110051/...
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Leo: Ok I have a question: if a black hole is supermassive, say 100 billion solar mass, let's suppose Alice fells int...
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superkuh: I am glad you are back! No more disapointing weekly refreshings of that monkey....
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Ariel Amir: Very interesting, thanks. It indeed seems to be very close to what we discuss here. I wonder whether the distributi...
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