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60. Daughter
Dear all
I am very sorry for being away for so long time, but maybe the following explanation will help you understand why I was so busy with other things:
On September 24 my wife Anna have delivered an extremely beautiful, small but fit baby girl. (…)
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). (…)
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. (…)
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. (…)



