photos and notes of the week (25.to.29.05.2009)

NIF ready for fusion!



Rare Cyclonic Storm over Nothern Argentina (Be careful with your CO2 footprint!)

Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina

Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia

Top 10 Earth- and People-Friendly Buildings

Ten researchers, politicians, business executives and philanthropists who have recently demonstrated outstanding commitment to assuring that the benefits of new technologies and knowledge will accrue to humanity

misc

http://hypercities.com/

A Skeptic's take on souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens and other invisible powers that be

Efficient Replication Bypass of Size-Expanded DNA Base Pairs in Bacterial Cells

Antarctic Sea Ice

meetings info (week.18.to.22.05.2009)

High Energy Physics Advisory Panel

Topological Field Theories

'Perspectives in Mathematics and Physics' is in celebration of I.M. Singer's 85th birthday and his legendary contributions to mathematics and physics.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (+TED vid)

A Unified Quantum Theory of the Sexual Interaction

The newest wave of nonsense in the media

Hubble is let go, and NASA puts out some new must see video from the Solid Rocket Boosters.
Absolutely astonishingly staggering awesome video of the launch, separation, fallback and splashdown.

Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?

In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat.

(un)related with weird EoS

Age crisis in $\Lambda$CDM model?

Entropy density of spacetime and thermodynamic interpretation of field equations of gravity in any diffeomorphism invariant theory

General static black holes in matter

A bound on the speed of sound from holography

Holography and the speed of sound at high temperatures

This week papers (18.to.22.05.2009)

A functional role for transposases in a large eukaryotic genome.

Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes

The Split-Algebras and Non-compact Hopf Maps

On the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation with advanced Monte Carlo methods

Teraflop per second gravitational lensing ray-shooting using graphics processing units

There is no "Theory of Everything" inside E8

Role of Glia cells in the formation of memory in the brain

New North Atlantic Circulation Path Found

I'm sorry Dave, I'm affraid I can't do that

NCBI Bookshelf, a wide range of biomedical texts

atlantis says goodbye to hubble

Earlier today, we brought you 10 of our favorite Wolfram Alpha easter eggs

Art of Science 2009@Princeton

Evaporation of the Aral Sea

This week papers (11.to.15.05.2009)

A Scenario for Strong Gravity in Particle Physics: An alternative mechanism for black holes to appear at accelerator experiments or YOU are made of black holes

Cosmological tests of GR -- a look at the principals

Leptons, quarks, and their antiparticles: a phase-space view

Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect for Gravitational Radiation

Towards Chip-on-Chip Neuroscience: Fast Mining of Frequent Episodes Using Graphics Processors

A few of econophysics

The Economic Crisis and its Implications for The Science of Economics.

The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer

Shifting Values in Response to Climate Change

The Institute for Collapsonomics

wonderfull Kristin Halvorsen

Videos, Images, Sounds and Misc of the week (11.to.15.05.2009)

Sean Gourley: The mathematics of war

A Sneak Preview of Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine

Soaring, Cryptography and Nuclear Weapons

What should a national health care system look like?

STS-125 Launch

Atlantis Launch… Infrared

More orbiting telescopes!

This week in ecology & biology

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Has Lost 90 Percent Of Original Habitat

John Holdren Charts The Future Of Science

Ingenious chemistry shows how nucleotides may have formed in the primordial soup.

Nanopore DNA sequencing

Decay of the Greenland Ice Sheet due to surface-meltwater-induced acceleration of basal sliding

An upddate in PRL

Toward an AdS/cold atoms correspondence: A geometric realization of the Schrödinger symmetry


Gravity Duals for Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories

Hidden Variable Models for Quantum Theory Cannot Have Any Local Part

Observation of the Suppression of the Flux of Cosmic Rays above 4×1019  eV

Relativistic Closed-Form Hamiltonian for Many-Body Gravitating Systems in the Post-Minkowskian Approximation

Nuclear mass correction to the magnetic interaction of atomic systems

Minimally Entangled Typical Quantum States at Finite Temperature

Meetings Info (week.04.to.08.05.2009)

Charles Fefferman
The Power of Analysis, Conference on the occasion of his 60th birthday. May 4-8th, 2009

New Opportunities in the Physics Landscape at CERN

Geometry and Physics: Atiyah80

Videos, Images, Sounds and Misc of the week (04.to.08.95.2009)

Love in a Backward World

Total Immersion Demo 08

Planck - ESA's Time machine

2008-2009 Winter Land Surface Temperature Anomalies

Galaxies of the Perseus Cluster

Bolivian Glacier Disappears

Infrared Proteins Give Deep View Inside Living Animals

This week papers (04.to.08.05.2009)

Effective Field Theories for Local Models in F-Theory and M-Theory by Jacob L. Bourjaily

Moonshine and E(8)

Universal Constants, Standard Models and Fundamental Metrology by G. Cohen-Tannoudji

Renormalization and computation I: motivation and background by Yuri I. Manin

Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans by Michel Desmurget