If you want to know how stressed and busy I’ve been lately, you don’t have to look any farther than the fact that I’ve totally fallen down on the shameless self-promotion front: I was on a radio show, and forgot to post about it here. I know, bad blogger, no pageviews… Anyway, I talked about […]
Month: October 2011
Congratulations to Perlmutter, Schmidt and Riess, and also Evan and Cusp
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Ethan will presumably have a post with about a gigabyte worth of images in it shortly, or if you prefer your information in […]
Nobel Prize Betting Pool 2011
I have been sufficiently out of it that I didn’t realize the Nobel Prizes were due to be announced this coming week. Which means there’s only a small amount of time to get my traditional betting pool set up… So, here are the rules: 1) To enter, leave a comment to this post specifying the […]