.Astronomy
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So here I am at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) just outside
Madrid for a conference called .Astronomy 13. It is (obviously) the
thirteenth such...
My Passover press release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – From the university campuses of Assyria to the
thoroughfares of Ur to the palaces of the Hittite Empire, students across
the Fertil...
On Rating Universities
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In a world where we live hostages of advertisement, where our email
addresses and phone numbers are sold and bought by companies eager to
intrude in our li...
How do magnets work?
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I came across this excerpt from a a christian home schooling book:
which is of course funny in so many ways not at least as the whole process
of "seeing" ...
How large is the W mass anomaly
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Everything is larger in the US: cars, homes, food portions, people. The CDF
collaboration from the now defunct Tevatron collider argues that this
phenome...
Scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students in Mainz
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The Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at the University of Mainz announces
scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students who have already started a PhD in
the field ...
Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy?
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On Twitter, I’ve been chatting with my friend Julia Galef about tensions
between thinking creatively and thinking in a way that reduces error. Of
course, a...
The forgotten life of Einstein’s wife
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19 December was the 141th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Marić
Einstein. But who remembers this brilliant scientist? While her husband,
Albert Einstein...
Coaching Academics?
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A longtime reader and sometime correspondent of mine recently posed some
questions to share with FSP readers (if you are still out there). These
questions ...
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish!
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This blog has moved. The new location is http://dabacon.org/pontiff. So
long and thanks for all the fish! Over the past three years I’ve had a good
time bl...