2005 Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry I know vitually nothing about organic chemistry, but their work sounds incredibly significant. I won’t speculate on the politics of Glauber’s physics prize (i.e. why he got recogni[…]
You Are What You Listen To In response to the findings in the article, the whole world commented, “DUH”. “Another participant was worried about what his co-workers would think of the Justin Timberlake and Michael McDonald music he […]
Humph. At Toronto, we had to settle for hearing Ed Witten, a guy who basically invented his own field and is the most cited physicist of the past twenty years. However, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo got a visit from R[…]
To summarize: Men want hot chicks, who in turn want money and power. It’s evolution, baby! Girls, your looks will fade after you hit 30, but don’t despair, just wear lots of makeup, pad your bra, and you can fool guys no sweat — th[…]
Professor Ed Witten gave a series of talks in various departments at the University of Toronto this week. He is arguably the most famous physicist in the world. That is, he is the most well-known physicist amongst physicists, for I doubt that the gen[…]
The Physics Detective Part Ten — The Mystery Is Solved (and I Hate to Say I Told You So, But …) I told you so. We have now reached the end of this two-month mini-blogging journey. Now I can go back to writing to amuse others rather than t[…]
The American Chemical Society held their annual National Meeting last week, March 13 – 17. It was held in San Diego and around nine thousand papers were presented. The ACS and APS (physics) meetings are quite different. At the physics meeting, […]
The Physics Detective Part Nine — de Bruijn is Mr. Cranky He certainly doesn’t pull any punches. This week, I started getting a funny feeling that this story will end with Lister declaring that Jaeger committed suicide, or some similar ty[…]
The Physics Detective Part Eight — Feng is Bond, James Bond Didn’t the guy seem a bit too smooth? Up until now he’s been portrayed a bitter person who jumped to the enemy camp looking for vengeance against his former boss. But under[…]
The Physics Detective Part Seven — Ludmilla, I Am Your Father Truly, we are not worthy. I thought I had concocted a scandalous resolution to this story, but it turns out that my dirty thoughts have been soundly trumped. Clearly, the likes of […]