I was just out for a bike ride, during which an idle thought came to me about a rule of thumb that might deserve publicity. This rule of thumb is that the mention of wormholes in a popular science book, … Continue reading ?
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Scott McLemee writes about the shelving of books, spinning off Matt Selman's list of rules for shelving books RULE #1: THE PRIME DIRECTIVE -- It is unacceptable to display any book in a public space of your home if you have not... Read Post
Over at Evolving Thoughts, John Wilkins pokes string theorists: Ernst Rutherford, the "father" of nuclear physics, once airily declared "In science there is only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting". By this he meant th... Read Post
String theorist Oswaldo Zapata continues (see here for an earlier posting about this) his remarkable series of essays about string theory and how it came to dominate research in theoretical high energy physics. The latest one, entit... Read Post