Martin Rees: 'There is a dearth of good science teachers in our state schools' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/martin-rees-there-is-a-dearth-of-good-science-teachers-in-our-state-schools-8433633.html

Hoping RTP will ask the BBC...

Even non-believers can find the wisdom in silence http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/even-nonbelievers-can-find-the-wisdom-in-silence-8431101.html

fingerprints of stars...

The SETI Institute (@SETIInstitute) tweetou às 4:30 AM on sáb, Dez 15, 2012: The physics of stars and their complex relations with the formation of planets explained in an animated cartoon. http://t.co/JeiOqEL3 (https://twitter.com/SETIInstitute/status/279805696596377600) Baixe o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download


or at

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1542&buffer_share=81dd5&utm_source=buffer

When You Fall Into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got?

FQXi Physics (@FQXi) tweetou às 11:44 PM on sex, Dez 14, 2012: When You Fall Into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got? http://t.co/2Utt0Agq via @sciam (https://twitter.com/FQXi/status/279733575526531073) Baixe o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

or

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/2012/12/14/when-you-fall-into-a-black-hole-how-long-have-you-got/

Extending Einstein...

Phys.org (@physorg_com) tweetou às 11:30 PM on sex, Dez 14, 2012: Extending Einstein: Researchers demonstrate a new kind of quantum #entanglement http://t.co/dLLOl6oK @UCalgary (https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/279730182712078336) Baixe o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

or at

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys2492.html

or

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-einstein-kind-quantum-entanglement.html

Chocolate. Different.

The Times Travel (@timestravel) tweetou às 11:06 PM on sex, Dez 14, 2012: Luxury in the best possible taste – chocolate http://t.co/3vgz3HbS (https://twitter.com/timestravel/status/279724018511261696) Baixe o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

or in

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/travel/holidays/food/article3628975.ece?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

It's official, then. Well, "official"... . Alright, fine: strongly possible, coming to terms.

Editorial: Online could be the future of learning http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/editorial-online-could-be-the-future-of-learning-8418145.html

THE END OF SMARTPHONES: Here's A Computer Screen On A Contact Lens - Business Insider

THE END OF SMARTPHONES: Here's A Computer Screen On A Contact Lens - Business Insider:

I see trouble ahead... Can you 2? And where? ....




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twin-peaks-in-atlas...

ATLAS Higgs Results: One Or Two Higgs ?


http://www.resonaances.blogspot.it/2012/12/twin-peaks-in-atlas.html

Maybe this will be THE anomaly at the start of the 21st that is pointing and will lead to NEW physics.

Anyway, beware: '' Then there is the possibility of a statistical fluctuation. I think this is the most likely explanation, and I am willing to bet $100 with as many as five takers that the two measurements will be reconciled with each other once more statistics is added, and that no observation of a double state will be made. This however might take three years to sort out, given the impending shutdown of the LHC.

Finally, you might instead want to believe that we are indeed looking at the first hint of new physics -Supersymmetry or some other model producing multiple Higgs-like particles. Very exciting, but I just do not buy that.

Time will tell! So if you have some extra cash to throw away consider taking the bet... ''.

I am 'would be liking it' to be SUSY.... Could bet about 75 euros ... What's your bet?

anyway, cf. http://www.resonaances.blogspot.it/2012/11/bs-and-susy.html


FYI: the notes are public now:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasPublic/HiggsPublicResults
combination is here:
https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2012...

CMS anxiety and a 3 GeV mistery. Mr. Poirot, can you help?

I found this great content on New Scientist:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23003

Higgs boson having an identity crisis

As long as you are fluent... Beware and ho and behold, u of poor sight. et al, poor as well.

Cf in http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/dec/03/massive-online-open-courses-universities

or

Students get free university courses online http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/students-get-free-university-courses-online-8413691.html

A British 'twist'. Twist? Sort of Rock & Roll, Beatles and RStones (TM)? Well, that will shake it. I mean continental slow univs. Just wait until some courses are in ... some latin language, spoken by millions better billions of young students.

Martin Bean, vice chancellor of the Open U., says the new venture will have a “distinctly British” twist.

Curious...

The big energy debate: Wind farms vs fracking http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-big-energy-debate-wind-farms-vs-fracking-8413556.html

UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package We don’t really...

UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package We don’t really...:

ndiana Jones Mystery Package

We don’t really even know how to start this post. Yesterday we received a package addressed to “Henry Walton Jones, Jr.”. We sort-of shrugged it off and put it in our bin of mail for student workers to sort and deliver to the right faculty member— we get the wrong mail a lot.

Little did we know what we were looking at. When our student mail worker snapped out of his finals-tired haze and realized who Dr. Jones was, we were sort of in luck: this package wasn’t meant for a random professor in the Stat department. It is addressed to “Indiana” Jones.

What we know: The package contained an incredibly detailed replica of “University of Chicago Professor” Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks only sort of like this one, but almost exactly like this one, so much so that we thought it might have been the one that was for sale on Ebay had we not seen some telling inconsistencies in cover color and “Ex Libris” page (and distinct lack of sword). The book itself is a bit dusty, and the cover is teal fabric with a red velvet spine, with weathered inserts and many postcards/pictures of Marion Ravenwood (and some cool old replica money) included. It’s clear that it is mostly, but not completely handmade, as although the included paper is weathered all of the “handwriting” and calligraphy lacks the telltale pressure marks of actual handwriting. 

What we don’t know: Why this came to us. The package does not actually have real stamps on it— the outside of the package was crinkly and dirty as if it came through the mail, but the stamps themselves are pasted on and look like they have been photocopied. There is no US postage on the package, but we did receive it in a bin of mail, and it is addressed to the physical address of our building, Rosenwald Hall, which has a distinctly different address from any other buildings where it might be appropriate to send it (Haskell Hall or the Oriental Institute Museum). However, although now home to the Econ department and College Admissions, Rosenwald Hall used to be the home to our departments of geology and geography. 

If you’re an applicant and sent this to us: Why? How? Did you make it? Why so awesome? If you’re a member of the University community and this belongs to you or you’ve gotten one like it before, PLEASE tell us how you acquired it, and whether or not yours came with a description— or if we’re making a big deal out of the fact that you accidentally slipped a gift for a friend in to the inter-university mail system. If you are an Indiana Jones enthusiast and have any idea who may have sent this to us or who made it, let us know that, too. 

We know this sounds like a joke/hoax… it’s not (at least, from our end). Any hints, ideas, thoughts, or explanations are appreciated. We’ve been completely baffled as to why this was sent to us, in mostly a good way, but it’s clear this is a neat thing that either belongs somewhere else— or belongs in the halls of UChicago admissions history.

Internet: help us out. If you’re on Reddit (we’re not) or any other nerdly social media sites where we might get information about this, feel free to post far and wide and e-mail any answers, clues, ideas, thoughts, or musings toindianajonesjournal@uchicago.edu  (yes, we did set up an email account just to deal with this thing). 

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Strong Gravity beyond GR

Strong Gravity beyond GR:

2 attend, may I suggest?

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nb cf also http://blackholes.ist.utl.pt/nrhep2/

Three-form inflation and non-Gaussianity - Abstract - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics - IOPscience

Three-form inflation and non-Gaussianity - Abstract - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics - IOPscience:

A very nice paper from colleagues.

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[1212.1286] Predicting economic growth with classical physics and human biology

[1212.1286] Predicting economic growth with classical physics and human biology:

Could be interesting to do it ''over here'' as well... -III (actually with extreme urgency & fwd to VG's 'chez' MFinanças. E n só. Mas tb.

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[1212.1282] The physics of business cycles and inflation

[1212.1282] The physics of business cycles and inflation:

Could be interesting to do it ''over here'' as well... - II

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nb. It is about the usual inflation... Ie, suitable for VG's et al @ MFinanças to read. At least...

[1212.1194] Modelling the ATP production in mitochondria

[1212.1194] Modelling the ATP production in mitochondria:

BQ & BT et al . Serious stuff. Actually. THE stuff.

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[1212.1679] The Greek Public Debt Path: From Zero to Infinity

[1212.1679] The Greek Public Debt Path: From Zero to Infinity:

Could be interesting to do it ''over here'' as well...

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[1212.1662] SUSY confronts LHC data

[1212.1662] SUSY confronts LHC data:

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If only SUSY...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/12/10/gluino-higgsino-bingo-2/




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A rare sight - CERN Bulletin

A rare sight - CERN Bulletin:



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How a young Cambridge graduate changed the path of modern science - Research - University of Cambridge

How a young Cambridge graduate changed the path of modern science - Research - University of Cambridge:



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Data is data...

I found this great content on New Scientist





http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628923.800

Seeing...dark matter

I found this great content on New Scientist




http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628924.100

Tug. Biophysics. PRL. Biocel? Bio what? Get into the fundamentals.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628936.100
I found this great content on New Scientist

Told you. Several times. Different manners. Same, actually.

http://expresso.sapo.pt/nuno-crato-admite-novas-fusoes-de-universidades=f773496

http://www.publico.pt/portugal/noticia/nuno-crato-admite-possibilidade-de-haver-mais-fusoes-de-universidades-1577221

http://sol.sapo.pt/inicio/Sociedade/Interior.aspx?content_id=64655

O txt nos links acime é 1-2-1 ie diffeo(morphic) no sentido de '' = '' (just a joke, sorry) mas ha quem goste mais desta ou daquela fonte, et al.

Permitam-me indicar que, @ many posts, well, some, at least, some time bué ago (merely a sample):

http://thehonourableschoolboy.blogspot.pt/2011/11/boards-e-trustees.html
http://thehonourableschoolboy.blogspot.pt/2012/04/aqui-ao-lado.html
http://thehonourableschoolboy.blogspot.pt/2012/05/c-ubi-ubi-ips.html
http://thehonourableschoolboy.blogspot.pt/2012/04/consorcios.html
http://thehonourableschoolboy.blogspot.pt/2011/11/sera-que-posso-sugerir.html
http://thehonourableschoolboy.blogspot.pt/2012/05/cf_23.html



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Nb. O discurso ou 'conversa' de NC é a versao soft, 'Disney'.



O que já está, repito, já está em 'beaucoup movement', é do género 'better take a deep breath'. Acho que pouco(a)s sabem em termos de magnitude dos 'eigen-v's e eigen-v's' o que vem aí.








Que vai haver novo 'phase space' dirão que é obvio. Mas a dinamica concreta... Ouch! Não apenas 'o que' mas 'o como' e 'para quê'.

SN Ia.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1538

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New Scientist TV: Infinity in the real world: Does space go on forever?

New Scientist TV: Infinity in the real world: Does space go on forever? The Honourable Schoolboy

Physics Nobel honors pioneers in quantum optics | Print Edition - Physics Today

Physics Nobel honors pioneers in quantum optics | Print Edition - Physics Today:

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X-ray imaging detectors | Print Edition - Physics Today

X-ray imaging detectors | Print Edition - Physics Today:

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Physicists on the Buses during Science Week 2012

Physicists on the Buses during Science Week 2012 The Honourable Schoolboy

That would be nice. Indeed.

astroparticle (@astroparticle) tweetou às 8:41 AM on sáb, Dez 01, 2012: Dark Matter Will Soon Be Detected, Particle Physicists Predict http://t.co/ziMoXVmN RT @HuffPostScience (https://twitter.com/astroparticle/status/274795249610661889) Baixe o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

What? No honey? Colateral on the Higgs...

I found this great content on New Scientist

And maybe more to find?

The Particle at the End of the Universe, By Sean Carroll http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-particle-at-the-end-of-the-universe-by-sean-carroll-8368325.html