PS to Canada Day

After you could recently test whether you qualify to be German , for Canada Day the Globe and Mail offers a similar questionaire "What...

Happy Canada Day

July 1st is Canada Day. Seems I missed it every time since I live in Canada, much like I've missed every 4th of July while in the USA. A...

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...