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• Satellite shows enormous crowds at the Obama’s inauguration
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Wanted to work for Google? Take a look at this post on TechCrunch and think twice next time
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• Talk at CITA - “Decoding the rosetta stone of galaxy formation” by Mario Juric, http://is.gd/gjMy? #
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Dear readers,

yesterday you did not have the pleasure to read (or were not disappointed by :-)) a new post at NEQNET, but I do have a good excuse - first time in my life I have delivered a 1 hour teleconference seminar overseas. I did need some time to ( Read more... )

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Today I decided to start publishing my daily Twitter updates on the blog. One reason is that huge amount of interaction with my readers currently happens on Twitter, and sometimes something really interesting comes out of this interaction. Another reason to ( Read more... )

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He looked into the lens-system and saw
an unimaginably small world grow.
Now does this image in history draw
from van Leeuwenhoek or Galileo?
Through lenses both passed to another realm
in essence, since their broadened reference frame
allowed them visions ( Read more... )

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Since today is Sunday, nobody should be allowed to overload your brain with too technical discussion of a new paper in ArXiv (there are no new papers till Monday, anyway!). But does it mean that I will devote part of this Sunday to posting something about ( Read more... )

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Another interesting recent paper in archives which a undergrad student will be able to read is the paper “New kinds of quantum statistics” by Frank Wilczek. I would say it is actually useful to read it irrespectively whether you are going to specialize in ( Read more... )

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As you may remember, recently we’ve discussed the paper by Alexander Polyakov - essentially, his contribution into the forthcoming volume “The birth of string theory”. Tamiaki Yoneya has also recently submitted his contribution to ArXiv (on Dec 31!
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Physics is a strange, secular mistress
who spends her time with concepts and with laws.
These she embellishes with equations,
and revisions are made (some with distress)
oft’ to include experimental flaws
which lead to whole other realizations.
She makes ( Read more... )