Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
So my readers probably noticed the fact that this blog just stopped mid-February, without any explanation. Life in our local part of the universe was substantially more chaotic than usual. World wide protests, devastating natural
From today’s press release: Geneva, 31 January 2011. CERN today announced that the LHC will run through to the end of 2012 with a short technical stop at the end of 2011. The beam energy
Phenomenally beautiful math was the main highlight of this week, I’d say, although none of it for the very faint of heart. The CMS on SUSY, Bill Unruh on simulated Hawking radiation, Ed Witten on
This will be an especially short one, as I’m sitting in a hotel room in Idaho right now and didn’t pre-write anything, but check out 10 Delicious Papers from 2010 for more fun! Astrophysics and
Astrophysics and Gravitation: The Milky Way Project The Milky Way Project aims to sort and measure our galaxy, the Milky Way. Initially we’re asking you to help us find and draw bubbles in beautiful infrared
Astrophysics and Gravitation: Lensing of Black Holes Can Determine the Metric Around Them? Bin-Nun, A. (2010). Gravitational lensing of stars orbiting Sgr A* as a probe of the black hole metric in the Galactic center
Astrophysics and Gravitation: New Gravitational Lenses Negrello, M., & et al. (2010). The Detection of a Population of Submillimeter-Bright, Strongly Lensed Galaxies Science, 330 (6005), 800-804 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193420
Astrophysics and Gravitation: Hubble Tries to See into the Future From NASA, ESA, and J. Anderson and R. van der Marel (STScI): The multicolor snapshot, at top, taken with Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s