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Heretics in the church: black hole information loss 26 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
Bob Wald give a nice talk from the "relativist perspective" at the KITP workshop on firewalls -- see Fri Aug 23 3 PM ; slides. (@36 min things heat up a bit :-) One of the ideas that he and Bill Unru...
The Will to Power 25 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
Great bio of former Googler and now Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. I got sucked in and read the whole thing. Lots of color on life at Google, Yahoo and in SV. Philosophy 160A at Stanford is intro to mathema...
The work is behind the scenes 25 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
... competition is the easy part.
Black hole firewalls and all that 23 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
Here's the Times coverage of the so-called "firewall paradox" in black hole physics. For my take on it see this paper and these additional comments. There is a meeting at KITP on this topic taking pla...
Conor McGregor 20 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
Love this guy -- especially his attitude and his unorthodox striking style. Very good cage smarts and mental game. Don't know how he'd do against a good wrestler. So far I'd say he's only fought scru...
Dreams of DNA machines 19 Aug 2013 | 05:38 am
I'm often asked about the status of the BGI cognitive genomics project. A fairly long article about it appeared in WIRED recently. I have quite a lot of experience with the media from tech startup day...
The ten second barrier 16 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
Pei Meng Zhang -- 10.00 in the 100m in the semis at the IAAF World Championships 2013. Same time as Christophe Lemaitre, who was allowed to advance ahead of Zhang. At 6"1 190 Zhang is pretty big for a...
Sitzfleisch 13 Aug 2013 | 06:38 am
Freeman Dyson reviews the new biography of Oppenheimer by Ray Monk. I discussed the book already here. NYBooks: ... The subtitle, “A Life Inside the Center,” calls attention to a rarer skill in which...
Hollywood discovers theoretical physics 12 Aug 2013 | 07:09 am
Hollywood Reporter: Fox Searchlight has optioned The New York Times feature The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble and has set Film Rites' Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch to...
David Epstein and self-censorship 9 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
David Epstein's new book The Sports Gene is getting a lot of attention. For example, this New Yorker review is quite good, as are these interviews: NPR, Atlantic. Atlantic: ... I lost so much sleep o...
