midwest - transplant

I keep forgetting to post about this. A physicist friend (and Ben's "competition," sort of...) told me about Cosmic Variance, a really interesting, readable physics blog. Although certainly written by and for professional physicists, it tries to focus on ways contemporary physics fits into the bigger picture. If you can read the New York Times science section, you can read this.

For me, the most successful posts are the amusing "reality check" posts (On Parents and Physicists / a cute encounter during a commute / and this funny one), as well as the ones that soul-search about the politics and meaning of scientific research (here and here. Granted, there is a lot of space given up to talk about pure, unadulterated partisan politics, but that's what the scroll bar is for.

posted by mideast-transplant @ 6:08 PM