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The 12 Days of Christmas

So, as it’s now finally starting to look like winter here (and I have actual work piling up like snow), I felt it was appropriate to get a little festive, and thus you get, The 12 Days of Christmas...

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10 Delicious Papers from 2010

I’m not going to call these the best papers, or the most cited (although some of them are), but they all contain things that were interesting or unique that encouraged further work and discussion (even...

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Merry Christmas/Isaac Newton’s Birthday

This is just a brief run-down of seasonal posts for Christmas this year: From The Language of Bad Physics The 12 Days of Christmas Research 10 Delicious Papers from 2010 Other Seasonal Gems From Starts...

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Good-Bye to the Tevatron?

Back from the holidays, the big rumour of today: The Tevatron will be shutting down at the end of the year after not getting the funding extension from the DOE. So today on Twitter, Lisa Randall...

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Finite formula found for partition numbers

So this isn’t physics*, but if you squint hard enough, you can probably make a connection.  The hot topic today is Ken Ono‘s latest work on the partition function: Ken Ono, Amanda Folsom, & Zach...

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It’s Official: The LHC will run through 2012

From today’s press release: Geneva, 31 January 2011. CERN today announced that the LHC will run through to the end of 2012 with a short technical stop at the end of 2011. The beam energy for 2011 will...

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Since I didn’t have the time to put together another Valentine’s Day special, like last year’s “The Mathematician’s Valentine“, you get ‘Colour Your Own Physics Valentine’s Day Cards’ for all...

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Apologies for the blogging hiatus

Posts here will re-commence this week. The post Apologies for the blogging hiatus appeared first on PLOS Blogs Network.

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Higgs Gossip: Observation of a γγ resonance at a mass…

Update (April 25th, 2011) at end. So I woke up this morning to several emails about a strange “Higgs sighting” at ATLAS.  On a Woit’s blog, a commenter named Higgs? shared an abstract purporting...

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Apologies for the continued hiatus

Apologies for the continued and still continuing hiatus, readers. I’m talking time off from school/work/research/blogging and have been for some time now, for those who weren’t aware. I have an...

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