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162. Five most important things that happened to me in 2008
This post number 161 is the last one that I write in the year 2008 as it passes away and waves us his hand. What did it bring to my life? (…)
147. Death of blogosphere, birth of blogosphere and Christmas wishes
1. So, death or birth? (…)
146. Offtopic - are there any webmasters reading this blog?
I am sure there should be some (Pascal? ).
Maybe the following info will seem interesting for you - John Chow is going to give away a copy of John Reese’s “Traffic secrets 2.0″. (…)
144. For lazy, yet curious students
Suppose you are a cosmologist - a postdoc or an assistant professor. (…)
140. First two weeks of December at NEQNET
Dear friends
Before I proceed to the (becoming usual already) list of posts published at NEQNET during the last two weeks, let me say a couple of words about the blog itself, which is currently the source of my pride
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135. Steven Chu is the Secretary of Energy
Via Cosmic Variance:
This is fantastic news. (…)
132. Fun with Amazon.com
As you know very well, Amazon.com is an incredible source of extremely valuable assets which can become yours with just one click (well… several clicks… and giving them your credit card number… and more clicks… but, anyway, let me be positive ). (…)
130. A question in general relativity and another poll
I have been asked the following question by one of my friends:
“I know that the frame of reference determines that it is the stay-at-home twin who ages faster than the twin travelling at some fraction of light speed. (…)
119. Fun with energy gap for QCD Born-Oppenheimer Hamiltonian
Let us try to solve the Exercise 2 in this post about the Wilson loop. (…)
118. Last two weeks of November on NEQNET
Well, those two weeks were quite productive ones! (…)
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.
113. Japanese inventors are always ahead
Some 30-40 years ago there was a movement among Russian inventors amazingly popular at that time (not so popular nowadays) - for example, a couple of research institutes was entirely devoted to its development. (…)
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. (…)
107. New “Ender in Exile” by Orson Scott Card
Sorry for the off-topic but I am actually a HUGE fun of the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. (…)
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). (…)



