Science Mugs

On Friday I came across Corie Lok's blog who announces the "Nerdiest Science Mug Competition" and offers a DNA strand with th...

This and That

Event of the week: Germany made it into the EURO 2008 finals! They will play against Spain on Sunday 2:45 pm ECT. Most bizzare news of the ...

Alice and Bob

Alice: You are late. How was your day? Bob: Sorry honey, I had to wait for t = infinity, it took forever. Alice: Thanks for asking, my day w...

Seminar in Heidelberg

This lovely old villa is the Insitute for Theoretical Physics in Heidelberg where I gave a seminar yesterday. [Click to enlarge] A very war...

The Black Hole Information Loss Paradox

Prologue I am constantly fighting information loss. Most importantly, there seems to get a lot of information lost in emails I write if thos...

Cacti

And again I am in Germany, fighting a jetlag. School holidays just begun, everybody is talking about soccer , and today I am visiting my par...

GSM Mast Installations (Density)

GSM Mast Installations (Density).When planning a cellular radio network there are many aspects to consider. The matter of radio technology a...

GSM MS List of States for the cell selection process

GSM MS List of States for the cell selection processThe GSM mobile station (MS) enters various states when switched on, but in the idle mode...

Black Holes at the LHC - The CERN Safety report

Earlier this year there has been a bit of confusion about potential dangers of switching on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN . A law...

US Court recognises expectation text message privacy

US Court recognises expectation of text messages privacyViolation the Fourth AmendmentRight to privacy under Art. I, Sec. 1 of the Californi...

Poll: Black Hole Information

I meant for some while to write a post about the black hole information loss paradox, but despite my best intentions I haven't yet come ...

Interna

When I visited PI the first time, I got a visitor information package that among other things contained the Waterloo UpTown Business and Ser...

Pi in a Cornfield

[Aerial image © 2008 by Lucy Pringle] This photo shows a crop formation near Wroughton, Wiltshire, U. K., reported June 1, 2008. It is about...

What is a System?

On the weekend my confusion about the whatabouts of life, the universe and everything else temporarily reached alarming proportions. Reason ...

Discover Interview with Tegmark

Discover has a nice interview with Max Tegmark Is the Universe Actually Made of Math? Unconventional cosmologist Max Tegmark says mathematic...

PS on Information Overload

As a PS to my yesterday's post on Information Overload , its dangers, and the question whether we might be making a mistake that we won&...

Information Overload

Sorry for having been quiet the last days, I've been busy with too many things and I'm running behind on scheduling some upcoming tr...

The Matter of Everything

"THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT NO ORDINARY MATTER The Matter Of Everything is a feature documentary that challenges us to see beyond our everyd...

Do you qualify to be German?

I just read in Spiegel Online that from September on anyone who wants to become a German citizen will have to pass a citizenship test with q...

Bad Hair Day

Summer has finally come to Ontario. Humidity is 100%, people swim on the streets and spend as much time as possible shock-frozen next to the...

This and That

Optical Illusion Contest with a lot of interesting examples. Thanks to Stefan! Bloggy news of the week: The publish button under the commen...

Maps of Science

Interesting website visualizing scienctific research fields based on a co-citiation analysis of journals. mapofscience.com Unfortunately, on...

BioFuel

In March, Biofuel was the title story of the Time magazine. In The Clean Energy Scam , Michael Grunwald reports on 'new studies' tha...

Learning to Be Thoughtless

Social norms are unwritten laws. Did you ever go into a grocery store and took somebody else's full cart? Went into a restaurant and ate...

PASCOS 2008

This week, the Perimeter Institute hosts the conference PASCOS 08 , the the 14th in a series of interdisciplinary symposia on the interface ...