Sunday, September 8, 2013

Likely: latest Atlantic hurricane-free date at least since 1941

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Originally posted on September 4th. Now, 5 days later, it seems that no currently active systems will grow to a hurricane so the records wi...

Democrats of Europe, wake up!

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit is a notorious Franco-German leftist. In 1968, he would be a fighter at the barricades of Paris; his nickname has been D...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Confusions about the relationships of special relativity and general relativity

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Sabine Hossenfelder wrote about the confusions surrounding the relationship of Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity and Einstei...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Yo-yo banned in Syria

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Blamed for drought by Muslims BEIRUT (Syria), [date]. Drought and severe cold is disastrously affecting the cattle in Syria, and the Muslim ...

Snowden: Internet encryption useless against eyes in NSA, GCHQ

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Both HTTPS, SSL, and VoIP only good against little fish Edward Snowden has provided The New York Times and The Guardian and others with some...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

A universal derivation of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy from topology change, ER-EPR

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I have been intrigued by topology change in quantum gravity, especially its Euclidean version, for 15 years or so. Since the beginning, I li...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Nathaniel Craig's State of the SUSY Union address

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I have known Nathaniel Craig since he was a brilliant Harvard undergraduate who was attending graduate courses – at least my string theory c...