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English professor Michael W. Clune writes : We Asked for It The politicization of research, hiring, and teaching made professors sittin...

I mentioned that the SciAm Editor is Fired , and former SciAm writer seems to be the only one defending her . He maligns evolutionist Je...

Jerry Coyne reports : The facts are that Helmuth had a total social-media meltdown the night of the election (see her tweets here ), for whi...

An investor channel reports: Quantum Computing: Tech's Longest-Running Hoax you may need 14:12 hundreds or even thousands of physical 14...

Peter Woit is depressed about the election, and rants that now we are Living in a Post-truth World On the American democracy front, the Trum...

NPR reports : The dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic helped transform Sabine Hossenfelder into an unlikely social media star. ... Hossenfel...

As I write this, the election has not been called, but I want to draw attention to the Nature editorial endorsing Kamala Harris. I don&...

Dr. Quantum Supremacy, Scott Aaronson previously announced he is Never-Trump From Here to Eternity , and now writes Letter to a Jewish voter...

A popular channel tries to answer What is a Photon? The simple answer is that light is composed of photons. A photon is a ball of light....

From a Jun 2024 podcast interview : Ellen came out with a new book at the end of last year called The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chro...

From a new paper on Einstein's Happiest Moment: The Equivalence Principle : Einstein’s happiest thought was his leap from the observatio...

Since the Nobel Swedes have apparently decided that Physics is dead, and all the action is in Artificial Intelligence, maybe I will switch t...

Dr. Quantum Supremacy Scott Aaronson has posts In nearly twenty years of blogging, I’ve unfortunately felt more and more isolated and embatt...

Physicists must be annoyed that the Nobel Physics prize was for computer science, with no application to Physics. Here is a defense : All...

Dr. Bee predicts : Which is why my best bet for this year’s 1:35 Physics Nobel is quantum computing. This is clearly on the bingo card, ...