264. Twitter updates for 2009-02-15

Evolution: unnatural selection http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457803a Tunable delay in EPR entanglement: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07751 Density of states and critical behavior of Coulomb gas: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.067205 How to measure a spinon Fermi surface: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.067204 Topological transition in a non-hermitean quantum walk: http://short.to/ysa Trapped particles in Tokamaks: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.065002 Large structure of the Universe as a probe of fundamental physics: http://pirsa.org/09020037/. Talk by [...]

263. Winding effects on brane/antibrane pairs

This is a guest blog post by my old friend and co-author Niko Jokela (who is nowadays working for Technion). Dmitry. Here I want to write a guest post by the kind invitation of Dmitry. He asked me to give some flavor on our recent paper: “Winding effects on brane/anti-brane pairs” (0901.0281) – coauthored with [...]

262. Video of the day: so, what is this “Non-equilibrium Phenomena” stuff about?

261. Twitter updates for 2009-02-14

How to build desktop Foucalt’s pendulum: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1210 Are you a student? You might be interested in “Best student paper” competition: http://is.gd/jpHC Evolution’s influence in pulp fiction: http://snipr.com/btacu #fun. To Darvin’s day Brain and behaviour of dinosaurs: http://jijr.com/7Oe Neurological basis of intuition: http://short.to/ys5 Next gene sequencing technology pinpoint on-off switches in genomes: http://is.gd/jpJn Reading minds with [...]

260. Elegant Universe – instead of conclusion

Via Abstruse Goose. I promise to not dumb you down

259. Video of the day: Elegant Universe

Famous documentary about string theory which everybody has already probably seen

258. Twitter updates for 2009-02-13

Recent patent applications in gene expression: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt0209-145 Kip Thorne on Steven Hawking: http://snipr.com/bt9mc Hopefully, science funding in stimulus package is restored: http://is.gd/jpDf Terence Tao gives a reading seminar on density Hales-Jewett: http://short.to/ys4

257. Counting states in the Bousso-Polchinski landscape

This is a guest blog post by Antonio Segui and Cesar Asenio from the University of Zaragoza. Dmitry. This post is a summary of our recent work “A geometric-probabilistic method for counting low-lying states in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape”. For more details and a list of references, the paper is posted on the arXiv as arXiv:0812.3247 [...]

256. Video fo the day: ATLAS experiment

ATLAS Experiment: mapping the secrets of the Universe – a talk by Michael Barnett (Berkeley Lab physical division):

255. Twitter updates for 2009-02-12

Econophysicists identify 10 most powerful companies in the world: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1195 Am I the only one who sometimes feels that econophysics is bullsh..t? Fixed points of stochastic maps: http://tinyurl.com/dakrlp A fun story about zeta-function: http://snipr.com/bppeg Terence Tao shows his collection of LaTeX bugs in WordPress: http://is.gd/jdCo A lifeline for the biotech sector: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt0209-123 Govers on quasirandomness: [...]