Thursday, September 23, 2010

Physics hubris?

There is an interesting piece on the New York Times web site which quotes numerous scientists slamming Bob Laughlin's recent article about climate change. I wish he would go back to doing regular science....

On a more positive note Laughlin has a worthwhile project that is digitising Conrad Herring's famous file card box.

On his website he also has all the cartoons from his wonderful book, The Emergent Universe.

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