{"id":329,"date":"2006-01-14T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=329"},"modified":"2006-02-23T08:41:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T13:41:46","slug":"susskind-nyt-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Susskind NYT Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/15\/books\/review\/15powell.html\">review<\/a> of Susskind&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=307\">The Cosmic Landscape<\/a> in this Sunday&#8217;s New York Times book review section.  The reviewer does a reasonably good job of laying out what the Landscape controversy is about, characterizing Susskind&#8217;s attitude as &#8220;braggadocio&#8221; with &#8220;an air of smugness&#8221;,  and noting that &#8220;He allows remarkably little doubt about string theory considering that it has, as yet, not a whit of observational support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Village Voice has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/arts\/0602,dayal,71616,12.html\">profile of Susskind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b>  More about this over at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/physicist_in_landscape_1.php\">Uncertain Principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a review of Susskind&#8217;s book The Cosmic Landscape in this Sunday&#8217;s New York Times book review section. The reviewer does a reasonably good job of laying out what the Landscape controversy is about, characterizing Susskind&#8217;s attitude as &#8220;braggadocio&#8221; with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}