Physics Blogging Round-Up

Another busy week of physics-y blogging over at Forbes. I’m pretty bad about remembering to post pointers to individual posts here, but I can probably just about manage to do a weekly links dump of what I’ve been posting.

What’s The Point Of Science Without “Eureka!” Moments? Picking up on a conversation I had at Convergence, about whether there’s any point in doing experiments whose outcome won’t be a surprise.

Should We Have An Institute For Low-Energy Fundamental Physics Picking up a bit from one of the Convergence talks, where Savas Dimopoulos suggested forming an institute to house low-energy experiments aimed at probing fundamental physics (atom inteferometers, EDM searches, etc.).

Why The Most Exciting Thing In Science Is Not Knowing Stuff My original title, reflected in the URL, was “The Ecstasy of Ignorance,” a response to Adam Frank’s “The Agony of Ignorance” at NPR.

What Physics Should Learn From Economics Nature ran yet another “physicists should stop talking about preliminary results” piece; the next morning, the monthly jobs report came out. I explain why the latter is a counterargument against the former.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to…