Author Archives: woit

Various and Sundry

Posted on June 14, 2006 by woit

As usual recently, so much going on that I don’t have time to write much about a lot of it, but here are some quick links and comments. The SUSY 06 conference is taking place this week, hosted by UC … Continue reading →

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More in the Times

Posted on June 12, 2006 by woit

In Monday’s London Times there’s a piece by Anjana Ahuja about my new book and the controversy over string theory. Ahuja worries that I might have multiple spleens, so I want to reassure her and others that I only have … Continue reading →

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Not Even Wrong in the Sunday Times

Posted on June 11, 2006 by woit

Today’s edition of the London Sunday Times has a review of Not Even Wrong by John Cornwell in its book review section. Cornwell is a British historian of science, based at Cambridge University. The review is very positive and pretty … Continue reading →

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Blogs, Blogs, Blogs

Posted on June 9, 2006 by woit

All sorts of news very recently on the science blogging front: Seed’s ScienceBlogs site has been revamped, with 25 new blogs for a total of 43 science bloggers. First it was Cosmic Variance with 5 bloggers, now it is ScienceBlogs … Continue reading →

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LHC Predictions at Seed

Posted on June 9, 2006 by woit

The latest issue of Seed magazine (not yet available online, as far as I know), contains responses from various well-known physicists who were asked what they hoped to learn from the LHC. Here’s the gist of what they had to … Continue reading →

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Populating the Landscape

Posted on June 9, 2006 by woit

Study of the string theory landscape seems now to have become the hot research topic that one should be working on in order to be taken seriously as a cutting-edge researcher in particle theory. Last week there was a workshop … Continue reading →

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Way Too Much Stuff

Posted on June 5, 2006 by woit

I ordinarily keep a short list on my desk of things I’ve seen recently that I’d like to write about here. The last few days this list has gotten way too long, so I’ll try and deal with it by … Continue reading →

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Not Even Wrong in the Financial Times

Posted on June 5, 2006 by woit

As a start on the project of reorganizing this weblog a bit to take into account the existence of the book, I’ve started using the “Categories” feature of WordPress. Postings about the book will be in a special category, all … Continue reading →

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Lusztig Birthday Conference

Posted on June 4, 2006 by woit

I was up in Boston for a few days, and managed to attend a few of the talks at the conference in honor of George Lusztig’s 60th birthday. Lusztig started out his career in geometry and topology; his thesis was … Continue reading →

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First Public Reaction From String Theorist to “Not Even Wrong”

Posted on June 2, 2006 by woit

Last month I made the following prediction: String theory doesn’t make any predictions, but I can make one: Lubos will be among the first reviewers of my book on Amazon, and I’ll get two stars. This prediction was confirmed today, … Continue reading →

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