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I occasionally look at Google Analytics for my blog in the slim hope it might tell me something about the level and nature of interest (or l...

Sometimes I never get around to writing or finishing planned blog posts. Last month something changed, but nothing changed for me. None of t...

Often when I write a post commenter's suggest some useful references. Answers to any of the following questions would be appreciated. Th...

I just realised that last month I had been blogging for ten years. On the five year anniversary, I reflected on the influence that the blog...

A friend asked me for any advice I have before he launches a blog. What mistakes have I made? How do I manage comments? What is the best pla...

I was recently asked to give a talk to an NGO about how universities are changing. There is no doubt that there are rapid changes, many for...

I learnt today that David Pines died last week. He was a pioneer in quantum many-body theory, applying it not just to solid state physics bu...

Although this blog has a wide readership one thing it struggles with is to attract many comments, and particularly much back and forth discu...

Last week at UQ we had a very nice mathematics colloquium , "Crowdsourcing mathematics problems" by Timothy Gowers. He first talk...

The New York Times has an interesting Op-ed. piece  Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It , by Cal Newport , a faculty member in c...

The plot shows the number of page views on this blog during the last week, according to blogspot.com. During one hour there was several t...

Best wishes for the New Year! Here is a selection of posts from last year I thought were the best and/or the most satisfying to write. A...

Physics World [Magazine for the Institute of Physics (UK) = British equivalent of Physics Today] has a feature Web life that covers differen...

Unfortunately, The Big Bang Theory TV show features little physics these days. It is often just like "Friends" except some of the ...

Last week Peter Woit kindly recommended my blog to his readers . This immediately doubled the number of daily page views for several days th...

Normally this blog attracts about 700 page views per day, according to blogspot.  However, yesterday it got 5000! I have no idea why. Presu...

Best Wishes for the New Year! In the past, at the end of each year I have listed my most popular [i.e. most viewed] posts of the year. Unf...

Last month marked the 5 year anniversary of this blog. My first post was a tribute to Walter Kauzmann. In hindsight, after almost 1500 post...

According to blogspot here are the six most popular posts from this blog over the past year Effective "Hamiltonians" for the st...

Roald Hoffmann and Sason Shaik are two of my favourite theoretical chemists. They have featured in a number of my blog posts. I particularly...