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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World 
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Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity 
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Category Archives: Science and the Media
Nautilus
As the media/communication/intellectual discourse landscape changes rapidly beneath our feet in response to the internet revolution, it’s great to see innovative new projects come to life that seek to enrich and elevate our conversation. Nautilus is one such effort. It’s … Continue reading
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CP Violation and the Information/Anti-Information Asymmetry
Do a physics experiment. Now take that experiment, change all the particles to antiparticles, and reflect the entire apparatus around some fixed plane. If you get an equivalent result, we say that the experiment preserves charge/parity symmetry, or CP for … Continue reading
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Volumes of Science
This weekend featured the latest edition of the LA Times Festival of Books, the largest book festival in the U.S., and a great celebration of the written word. The Saturday and Sunday festivities feature a bounty of author events, especially … Continue reading
Posted in Science and the Media, Words
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What “The God Particle” Hath Wrought
You’ve doubtless heard the joke: We can’t call the Higgs boson the “God Particle” any more, because now we have tangible evidence that it exists. But the label “God Particle,” attached to the poor unsuspecting Higgs boson by Leon Lederman … Continue reading
Posted in Higgs, Science and the Media
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Bookanalia
The annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is always a great event, I highly recommend it to anyone in the area. This year’s edition is on April 20-21. I have a special honor, which really should be reserved for … Continue reading
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Standing in Faraday’s Shoes
A highlight of my recently-completed visit to England was the honor of giving a public lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. It’s an honor to give public talks anywhere, of course — I always enjoy seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Higgs, Science, Science and the Media
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Science Communication Workshop for Grad Students
Here’s something fun and innovative: Communicating Science 2013, a workshop this June by and for graduate students in science. It’s been put together by some of the grad students who run astrobites and chembites, online surveys of recent interesting papers … Continue reading
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Online Complexity Course from Santa Fe
MOOCs are all the rage these days. That would be Massive Open Online Courses, for those of you still stuck in 2007. Apparently Bucky Fuller was pushing the idea back in the early Sixties? These days, with everyone spending most … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Internet, Science and the Media
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What is Time? The Flame Challenge
Of course you know what time is, since you’ve read From Eternity to Here and you don’t buy into the mysterianist gobbledygook that often accrues to the subject. But not everyone is so fortunate. (Or my sales would have been … Continue reading
Posted in Science and the Media, Time
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Guest Post: Terry Rudolph on Nature versus Nurture
Everyone always wants to know whether the wave function of quantum mechanics is “a real thing” or whether it’s just a tool we use to calculate the probability of measuring a certain outcome. Here at CV, we even hosted a … Continue reading
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