nanoscale views

This has to be one of the most useless things I've ever seen on the arxiv. Basically, the authors point out that there is absolutely n...

A faculty colleague of mine posed a statistical physics question for me, since I'm teaching that subject to undergraduates this semester...

Recently I acquired a copy of Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems by Max Di Ventra , a new textbook aimed at graduate students. I ha...

This article confirms my previous impressions , and is very depressing. This past week the government promised roughly 200 years worth of...

... I couldn't pass this up. Very well done, though someone should point out to the Obama supporters behind this that things didn'...

Well, that was interesting. Thankfully we're all fine and our house is undamaged. The prospect of being without power for an extended ...

Hello - for those readers who don't know, I live in Houston, which is about to get hit by Hurricane Ike. I'm hopeful that this won...

You know, I lived the first twenty-nine years of my life without having to pay close attention to stuff like this .

The internet is definitely the best way to keep up with current events. Check here often (look at the link text). (Thanks, Dan.)

One of my former professors, Michael Peskin , has a nice article about why the LHC will not destroy the earth. He taught me graduate-level...

Some things I learned at my final Packard meeting: The density of stars in a globular cluster is just absurd - something like 10 4 -10 6 st...

I'm in Park City for my last annual meeting as a Packard Fellow. As I've said before, I can't speak highly enough of the Packar...

First, following up on my earlier post about the field effect .... I'd seen some of this before but had some really good conversations ...

According to a news article in Nature , there are now only four PhD scientists left at Bell Labs doing basic research. Four. Leaving aside...

I'm off to Japan for this week, primarily to speak here , and secondarily to guarantee that I'm a jetlagged wreck for the first week...

I think that we need to coin an official term, "cryptophysicist", to describe people who do physics research outside the mainstrea...

For anyone interested in the US presidential candidates' positions on science, I recommend this NPR piece from today's "All Th...

This article (thinks, Incoherent Ponderer , for pointing this out and your insightful post ) is really distressing. Prof. Plummer is a cla...

Three little items.... First, the Foundational Questions folks have announced their funding recipients . These grants, intended for fundam...

It's that time of year again, when we get a brief break from high-90s (F) heat and high humidity by having a tropical weather system blo...