Information Processing

There seem to be a lot of physicists here this year. A partial list of theorists: Adi Stern, Chetan Nayak, Frank Wilczek, David Gross, David...

I've been meaning to read this book since listening to an interview with the author. See also this review by Razib of the blog Gene Ex...

See you there on Friday! This video is from last year.

This isn't meant to minimize the environmental horror of the BP oil spill, but I can't resist some rough estimates. (I did this quic...

It's deja vu all over again... This time, I'm sure no one who is informed will be surprised about the real situation in Afghanistan...

In an earlier post I did a lousy job of trying to estimate the effect of assortative mating on the far tail of intelligence. Thankfully, ...

I love this video. I don't do CrossFit , mostly because I'm a bit too old and creaky, although I do use HIIT and Tabata . Check out ...

Nicholas Wade writes about recent human evolution in the NY Times. NYTimes : ... Scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute last month d...

New paper! I got interested in this topic because I realized that I didn't understand the quantum aspects of white holes -- i.e., what i...

This is a nice summary of economic historian Gregory Clark's views on recent human evolution. See related posts . I think one standard d...

According to this study regular exercise does not entirely counteract the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle. There is an inde...

Driving the kids to preschool this morning. I: "Daddy, does everybody see the same sun?" M: "If it's day here, is it nigh...

In an earlier post I mentioned BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute, now located in Shenzhen). Below are some excerpts from a Nature a...

A draft paper by Harvard graduate student James Lee (student of Steve Pinker; I'd love to post the paper here but don't know yet if ...

This is a consistently good podcast in which historian Marshall Poe (University of Iowa) conducts in-depth (usually an hour or so) discussio...

A nice discussion with Marcus Chown on Bloggingheads. You can get a podcast version as well (iTunes). I wrote about his new book here .

Sorry for the lack of posts. I am traveling in Canada at the moment. Here's a photo from Mount Tremblant (near Montreal): This essay by...

I recently came across the blog A Singapore Taxi Driver's Diary , which gives a unique perspective on the squeaky clean city-state of Si...

For those on the Dark Side, please consider the job opportunity below, which might allow you to use your superpowers for Good :-) In the w...

MIT, Caltech and Harvard lead the pack. Berkeley is the top public school and beats out Brown, Columbia and Cornell. (Actually, for in-state...

A reader in Argentina recommends the following article about genomics in China. Economist : ... with the delivery of 120 spanking new top-of...

On my way home I thought a bit about what is so special about Tim O'Reilly's Foo Camp. If I recall correctly, I've now attended ...

Another wonderful weekend at Foo Camp! I am exhausted but happy :-) I was too busy to take a lot of photos, but I forced myself to snap a fe...

I'm off to Foo Camp tomorrow. See you in Sebastopol! Here is a description of last year.

Longtime reader STS referred me to this excellent article on the career prospects of young American scientists. It's long, but I recomme...