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backreaction.blogspot.com | ||
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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | Do string theorists have an unfair advantage? Do they have an easier time getting hired, for example? In one of the perennial arguments about this on Twitter, Martin Bauer posted a bar chart of faculty hires in the US by sub-field. The chart was compiled by Erich Poppitz from data in the US particle physics... | |
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profmattstrassler.com
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| | | | | [This post is a continuation of this one from Monday] Coming to Terms Before we continue, a little terminology --- trivial, yet crucial and slightly subtle. Think about the distinction between the words "humanity" and "a human" and "humans"; or "higher education", "university" and "universities"; or "royalty", "king" and "kings". In each case, the three... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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tritonstation.com
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| | | Given recent developments in the long-running hunt for dark matter and the difficulty interpreting what this means, it seems like a good juncture to re-up* this: The history of science is a decision tree. Vertices appear where we must take one or another branching. Sometimes, we take the wrong road for the right reasons. A... | ||
