Rants
The coming collapse of the middle class
As usual on Saturdays, discussion of physics is forbidden (why? check out Old Testament). Let us talk a bit about global financial crisis instead 
, namely about work of Elizabeth Warren, professor of Harvard Law School.
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On gun politics and culture in US
In Russia, any talk about personal weapons/gun policy gets immediately reduced to the question of how actually effective are guns for personal self-defence on the street. On the other hand, in US general attractor seems to be discussion of the statement that personal weapons is your defence against tyranny, i.e., “armed man=free man” etc. etc.
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372. On science (in Russia)
As I believe, in the long run the most painful hit that Russia got in final rounds of Cold War wasn’t a decrease of its military might or loss of political influence. It should be rather clear that those who suffer in war the most are the ones who cannot really defend themselves. The most affected by the loss in Cold War was science in Russia.
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331. Interview with Bogzabraloff brothers: science and religion
Dear friends,
I have just returned from the two-day trip to sunny (well, compared to Helsinki) Italy, where I was kindly invited to interview Bogzabraloff brothers, two of the deepest thinkers of our time. I have also had a chance to take a closer look at rather nice facilities of the Vatican Observatory, by this is for another story. Please find the interview below, as for me – I am tired as … and go to sleep right now. I am afraid, I will be unable to answer your questions until tomorrow but in the mean time – enjoy the interview! (and pardon my English – Bogzabraloffs speak Russian, and the interview was conducted in Russian).
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316. Richard Hamming’s “You and your research”
Gabriel Robins, professor of computer science at the U. of Virginia, has kindly allowed me to repost this amazing transcript at NEQNET… I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. Dmitry.
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168. Yoneya on gravity from strings
As you may remember, recently we’ve discussed the paper by Alexander Polyakov – essentially, his contribution into the forthcoming volume “The birth of string theory”. Tamiaki Yoneya has also recently submitted his contribution to ArXiv (on Dec 31! ), which is definitely worth going through, too. Reading his paper allowed me to make a couple of sociological observations…
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118. Last two weeks of November on NEQNET
Well, those two weeks were quite productive ones! – 19 posts in overall (or 20 including this one ) This counts to 1.5 posts per day (and you should take into account that I was on leave to Munich for 4 days). I hope my writing was not too boring for you 
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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. Last time I’ve tried to argue that one of the main reasons for market bubbles to take off is the exceedingly large amount of reserve currency in circulation. Today I would like to discuss a one particular bubble – the one on the housing market.
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97. Second week of November on NEQNET
Physics
* Quintessence on the string theory landscape?
I discuss the recent paper by Kaloper and Sorbo explaining how quintessence can be realized on the string theory landscape, as follows from the title. The post also contains small introduction explaining what is quintessence field and why we want so hard to find it on the landscape
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82. Academia: is it really a cult?
After my rant (by the way, why do you think I was using exactly this word?) on switchers and global financial crisis one disappointed fellow Scandinavian reader wrote in comments:
Tonight I was glad to see that neqnet was updating again after the fall hiatus – until I saw your “switchers” rant.
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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. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I will take it.
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62. Two decisions and the worth of US economy
Hi friends
Today I would like to continue my non-specialist analysis of the global financial crisis, its origin and consequences. Actually, I hesitated to name this series “Global crisis for dummies” but realized after some email conversations – there is a good chance that I am the only dummy around
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61. Rant: LHC, global crisis and switchers
1. LHC and the reason for this rant
As we know, LHC currently stands broken – 5 quadrupole and 24 dipole magnets are broken (out of 392 and 1232, correspondingly) due to the famous incident with liquid helium (see Lubos’ coverage of the incident). User uzhas_sovka, former physicist, currently financial analyst, yet to gain his MBA, is making fun of LHC team to my severe disappointment (unfortunately to you, my dear reader, you will be able to appreciate his irony only if you know Russian a bit).
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