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One week to spend in US
At this very moment – when you are reading this – I am flying to US, where the final destination of my trip is Cleveland. The plan is to take part in the 3-day Workshop on tests of gravity and gravitational physics at Case Western Reserve U.
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385. NEQNET: Last two weeks of April
The last month of the spring 2009 has started. Like all crazies, who usually get a bit more active during spring, I want (need) to become more active – my spirit requires some change. In this respect, I would like to ask you – what do you want to see new on NEQNET? New design? New guest bloggers? Are you unhappy about anything, that is, do you think that something has to be improved on the blog? Do you want to discuss some particular topic?
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370. The future of science blogs
I’ve just finished a reading rather interesting article by Mark Penn on WSJ called “America’s newest profession: bloggers for hire“. Penn presents rather interesting stats there (based on analysis by Technorati):
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361. NEQNET: first two weeks of April
Well, it seems that other two weeks have passed… What’s up? First of all, it looks like I figured out why energy seems to dissipate inhomogeneously in a turbulent flow with very large Reynolds numbers (kindly see the list N4 below). Apart from this topic, other things that I was interested in during these two weeks are listed here:
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332. NEQNET: last two weeks of March
Finally… This freezing March has come to the end. Why freezing? Well, for example, it featured snow storms stronger than the ones in January/February, how is that? Or temperature dropped below -15 on March 25th. Global warming? Not in Helsinki, Mr. Gore.
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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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317. Global crisis: one interesting plot
As it seems, I did not write about global crisis for quite a long time 
It is not like I see any meaning to get deeper into finding ultimate reason why the crisis had to take off (I guess the only meaningful question one might ask in the present situation – “what am I, personally, going to do about this surprising turn in my life?”), old interests do not die out too quickly. Sometimes I find some material regarding crisis here and there and really want to share it with you… but then I ask myself – are you really interested? Why do you need to know that? Well, I am going to forget about those questions this time
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305. First two weeks of March on NEQNET
Here is a comprehensive list of physics questions and problems we have discussed here on NEQNET during previous two weeks:
1. String theory, field theory, quantum gravity
1.1. Chiral symmetry breaking in soft wall AdS/QCD model, where Tom Kelley (U. of Minnesota) shows how explicit and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking takes place in a particular AdS/CFT-inspired model.
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290. Last two weeks of February on NEQNET
February (and long cold winter!) has finally come to the end, and, if by a chance, you were unable to visit us for the last two weeks, here is what the buzz was about at NEQNET:
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266. First two weeks of February on NEQNET
It seems that I did not do summary of activities on NEQNET for quite a bit Let me first quickly go through some relevant and irrelevant statistics.
First of all, the number of subscribers to NEQNET has finally crossed the magic number of 200 (two-three days ago). Thank you so much, all of you, who decided to subsribe – you made me extremely happy, made my day! On the other hand – the number of daily visitors is currently more than 1000 and, as I see, at least half of them are not newcomers. If, by a chance, you are reading NEQNET on a constant basis but are not yet subscribed – could I ask you to become a subscriber? It is possible to either subscribe to NEQNET RSS feed or get sent new posts directly to your Inbox.
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218. Implemented Facebook Connect!
Maybe, some weeks ago some of you have noticed a frame in the sidebar of NEQNET that looked like
The frame then suddenly disappeared again It actually contained the implementation of Facebook Connect on NEQNET, and the buggy piece of junk did not want to work as it supposed to.
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200. That’s right – two hundred
And THIS… IS… (let me say that again) a post number 200!
I cannot believe my own eyes – it seems that I celebrated the post number 100 just a couple of months ago!
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165. Back online, sorry
It seems that our SQL server broke down on Saturday, and the system administrator of my host was on vacation (Not only we, but a couple of other sites were affected.) Deeply sorry for that, but these were holidays, and I hope you had enough time even without reading our nerdy staff Anyway, we are finally back online. The first post today is by Jiajun Xu from the Cornell University who is going to talk about multifield inflation on a random landscape.
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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?
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147. Death of blogosphere, birth of blogosphere and Christmas wishes
1. So, death or birth?
Recently, too many people simultaneously started claiming that “the blogosphere is dead” – see, for example, the post by Nicholas Carr who started the desperation or the Bee’s blog post where she explains who actually killed the blogosphere (capitalist imperialist pigs, who else might have wanted to do that?).
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