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.
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.
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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