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I want to see this movie made.

Warning! Technical. I wanted to alert you to a very nice paper that my former student, Adrienne Leonard (who has since gotten her Ph.D. at Cambridge and is now at Saclay), her former thesis adviser, Lindsay King, and I have written and submitted to Monthly Notices. The title is “New Constraints on the Complex Mass [...]

From Chapter 4, The Fantastic 4 illustrate how neutrinos were discovered. (The Thing plays the part of Pauli.)

Dear Jim Davis, I know what this looks like, but this cat is named “Gorfeld.” Please don’t sue. Sincerely, The User’s Guide.

Rusty demonstrates Lorentz invariance.

The original Dr. Snuggles.

Cousin Brian is the Cosmic Randomizer. Enjoy this on a t-shirt!.

Some while ago, I wrote a post criticizing the New York Times’s Dennis Overbye for being far too quick to write science stories reporting on 1-sigma detections or groundbreaking theories which purport to completely overturn our understanding of the universe. I’ve started to realize that these sorts of stories are the rule rather than the [...]

I’ve started thinking about my next book. I’m not at the writing stage, or even the research stage; more like the brainstorming stage. I’ve been thinking a lot about crackpottery lately. Because I’ve been doing so much popular science writing and interacting with the public, I’ve started to realize that there’s an element of modern [...]

I went to the Drexel 2010 commencement yesterday. It was a great day for the Physics Department, during which we graduated a record 14 students, and for me in particular. I got to hood my first doctoral student, Sanghamitra Deb. Her thesis title was, “Probing Cluster Masses with Particle Based Lensing.” Congratulations, students, and especially [...]