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A commenter points out that the Edge web-site has put up John Horgan’s recent New York Times Op-Ed piece about science and common sense, together with some quite hostile responses to it. I’ve already explained what I think about Horgan’s … Continue reading →

Today’s New York Times contains an Op-Ed piece by science writer John Horgan entitled In Defense of Common Sense. In it, Horgan takes an iconoclastic view of this year’s many celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s great work of … Continue reading →

The KITP program on Mathematical Structures in String Theory has a new weblog associated with it where Andrew Neitzke has been posting summaries of the talks given there. The idea of having such weblogs attached to programs like the one … Continue reading →

Pierre Cartier has written a short biographical article about the remarkable French mathematician Jean Dieudonné. Cartier estimates that Dieudonné wrote about 80,000 pages of mathematics over the course of his career. He was a driving force behind Bourbaki, often taking … Continue reading →

A new institute devoted to theoretical particle physics has been organized, the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, which will be located in Florence. The purpose of the institute is to organize advanced workshops, the first of which will take … Continue reading →

A group called Thales and Friends, based in Greece and sponsored by MSRI, has organized a recent conference about Mathematics and Narrative that took place last month on Mykonos. Their web-site has abstracts of the talks and some other interesting … Continue reading →

The KITP in Santa Barbara, a few steps from the beach, is running a semester long program on Mathematical Structures in String Theory that started this past week. Some of the talks are already on-line. On the other coast, as … Continue reading →

I’ve never really understood how Wikipedia works, especially how it protects itself from getting filled with nonsense. The entry about the Bogdanovs has evidently recently been the subject of repeated attempts by the Bogdanovs to modify it, one can follow … Continue reading →

Joe Lykken just finished giving a series of talks at the SLAC summer school, now entitled “String Theory for Physicists”. This was changed from the original title, “String Theory for Dummies” (still on the poster). Presumably somebody realized that the … Continue reading →