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George Johnson (
The Cancer Chronicles
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Raw Data
) and Sean Carroll (
Cosmic Variance
,
California Institute of Technology
)
Rethinking Einstein’s “greatest blunder”
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04:06
String theory’s PR problem
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10:53
Why are we here? Can string theory tell us?
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24:45
All the cool scientists are bloggers
.
33:34
A tension between two conceptions of God
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46:33
A century’s worth of sky captured in glass
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1:05:04
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Sean’s homepage
Cosmic Variance
Sean’s extended review of Smolin
Joe Polchinski guest blogs at CV on the string debates
Polchinski at CV: “Science or sociology?”
Sean argues string theory is losing the public debate
Sean: String theory not dead yet
George’s talk at KITP on the string wars
Lubos Motl’s blog
Woit’s book “Not Even Wrong”
Christopher Hayes in The Nation on heterodox economics
NYT article on heterodox economics
George’s article on Wikipedia
George on deism and theism
George’s book “Miss Leavitt’s Stars”
CV on dealing with crackpots
Sean on Dawkins’s “The God Delusion”
Sean’s post on whether atheism is fortunate
Cocktail Party Physics
Engagement announcement at CV
Engagement announcement at Cocktail Party Physics
George’s article on the Harvard astronomical plates
Science Saturday | Jul 13, 2007 | George Johnson & Sean Carroll
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