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The temptation of rigor
Jacques Distler wrote a nice text about the role of rigor in physics. He explains that rigor can't replace physical input and insights: very rigo…
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Stephen Hawking and Ed Witten try to compete with new Einsteins...
... but it's very tough. ;-) Although a famous scientist from New Jersey informed me about a new and cool article in the Discover magazine in adv…
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Zodiac sign: Serpentarius
Astrology is a communist pseudoscience Ann asked me what is my zodiac sign: well, it is Serpentarius , currently called Ophiuchus, the least known am…
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This week 208: analysis
I am just reading " This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics" number 208 by John Baez . Powerful stuff. John Baez describes a confer…
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EM drive, warp drive, gullibility without limits
In recent 7 days, about 100 news outlets have informed their readers about "progress" in the construction of EM drive, and sometimes warp …
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Against supersymmetry
The most bizarre hep-th paper for Tuesday is probably called Against supersymmetry . The authors "show" that all supersymmetric gauge theor…
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Texan schools erase 13.7 billion years
Dimitrios Korres has kindly brought my attention to a Bad Astronomy article that included this fascinating video from a hearing of the Texas State B…
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Josephson disproving the landscape?
I feel that in order to compensate the revelation that Prof. Josephson believes ESP - and tries to unify Mind, Matter, and Music into his own versio…
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Sun, Jupiter, Saturn: spin-orbit coupling?
In this dose of skeptical peer-reviewed literature about the climate, we visit PASA, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia . Ian Wils…
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Alain Connes: a theory of everything
I want to point out the paper by Alain Connes: Non-commutative geometry and the Standard Model with neutrino mixing that appeared on hep-th tonight. …
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