Apologies for the continued and still continuing hiatus, readers. I’m talking time off from school/work/research/blogging and have been for some time now, for those who weren’t aware. I have an unfortunate slew of health issues (auto-immune disease) that I’m dealing with right now and have had to step back from some things to keep the work-life balance...

Update (April 25th, 2011) at end. So I woke up this morning to several emails about a strange “Higgs sighting” at ATLAS.  On a Woit’s blog, a commenter named Higgs? shared an abstract purporting observations of some 115 GeV resonance at CERN.  It claims to be from an “internal note” from the ATLAS Collaboration. Higgs? says: April 21, 2011 at 12:45...

So my readers probably noticed the fact that this blog just stopped mid-February, without any explanation.  Life in our local part of the universe was substantially more chaotic than usual.  World wide protests, devastating natural disasters, nuclear fears, war, and us just trying to go about our day to day lives, buying a home, securing funding, getting...

Posts here will re-commence this week.

So I’ve been remiss in my reading lately, but here are my picks from the past few weeks.  We have Outstanding Problems in Galaxy Formation, Herschel on Dark Matter, Dark Matter Detection Discussed, “Symmetry Breaking” in Graphene?, Closed Timelike Curves and Postselection, Frame-Like Geometry of Double Field Theory, and Loop Lectures with Carlo Rovelli. Astrophysics...

Since I didn’t have the time to put together another Valentine’s Day special, like last year’s “The Mathematician’s Valentine“, you get ‘Colour Your Own Physics Valentine’s Day Cards’ for all occasions: The romantic doubly-special Valentine: The platonic BF theory Valentine: And finally, the awkward and sexual cosmic censorship Valentine: