Science and Society
Don’t ask what science can do for you.
Among the more peculiar side-effects of publishing a book are the many people w…
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Physics
New experiment cannot reproduce long-standing dark matter anomaly
Close-up of the COSINE detector [Credits: COSINE collaboration] To correctly f…
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Papers
No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology
Figure from arXiv:1712.07962 A lot of people have asked me to comment on a pape…
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Particle Physics
CERN produces marketing video for new collider and it’s full of lies
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) just completed its second run. Besides a few an…
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Academia
Do women in physics get fewer citations than men?
Yesterday, I gave a seminar about the results of a little side-project that I d…
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Science
Book review: “The End of Science” by John Horgan
The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scien…
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Physics
Guest Post: Garrett Lisi on Geometric Naturalness
Thanks to Sabine for inviting me to do a guest post. In her book, “Lost in Math…
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Sociology of Science
The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
Nothing is moving in the foundations of physics. One experiment after the other…
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Papers
New paper claims that LIGO’s gravitational wave detection from a neutron star merger can’t be right
Two weeks ago, New Scientist warmed up the story about a Danish groups’ claim t…
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Video
Modified gravity, demystified [video]
Here is the promised follow-up on my earlier video about dark matter. This time…
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Books
Guest Post: Phillip Helbig reviews “Lost in Math”
[Phillip Helbig worked in cosmology and gravitational lensing at Hamburg and Jo…
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Random Thoughts
Self-driving car rewarded for speed learns to spin in circles. Or, how science works like a neural net.
When I write about problems with the current organization of scientific researc…
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