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Thiel-Kasparov debates 27 Aug 2013 | 04:59 pm
If you have 52 minutes, you may want to watch this video full of intelligent enough debates between the renowned chess player Garry Kasparov (a chronic world ex-champion and a sort of a political acti...
Lindzen's talk at DDP meeting 26 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
Alarming Global Warming: What Happens to Science in the Public Square Willie Soon sent us the newly posted video at the bottom, a 56-minute-long talk by Richard Lindzen at the (July) 2012 DDP meeting...
RSS: a negative temperature trend in 16.67 years 26 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Before you open this blog entry, you should make sure that all the nuclear power plants in your country are operational. You may need them because the text below contains a really long table (with 415...
Promising class of heterotic \(\ZZ_8\) orbifolds 26 Aug 2013 | 01:09 pm
After many twists and turns and the birth of roughly five competing classes of stringy compactifications, I still consider the heterotic strings to be the most realistic category of the stringy vacua ...
Insiders and outsiders debate: fuzz or fire? 25 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
There is a KITP rapid response 10-day workshop on the black hole information puzzle in Santa Barbara: Complementarity, Fuzz, Or Fire? Red fire or fuzz? asks a mad professor before she connects the wi...
Imagining 10 dimensions 24 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
Peter F. sent me a link to this video, Imagining 10 dimensions. It has 104 minutes but based on various hints and a quick selection, I believe it must be a pretty good one for an apparent amateur cre...
Tohoku, JP wins the International Linear Collider 23 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
The project may still be cancelled... In June 2013, I discussed the contest between the Sefuri mountains and the Kitakami mountains who will build the International Linear Collider if any collider wi...
Aspects of Al Gore's lies on category 6 hurricanes 23 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
Two days ago, Al Gore gave an interview to the Washington Post Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming in which he pretended to be optimistic that unhinged alarmists like ...
Boddy, Carroll: trying to save physics by sacrificing the Universe 23 Aug 2013 | 12:33 pm
...their irrational Boltzmann Brain Alarmism misunderstands what a hypothesis includes... On his blog, the Preposterous Universe, Sean Carroll promoted a paper by himself and Kimberly Boddy: The Hig...
Chinese medicine is carcinogenic 22 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
The following insights look particularly ironic and make me think about the prescientific way of analyzing Nature. One of the most omnipresent chemical compounds in Chinese herbal medicine have been ...
