coffee
On the web.
summer 2020 through fall 2020
watching
listening
- quanta magazine
- The Joy of X podcast
- Fermi Lab Youtube
- KEXP (because I just bought a new car (bummer) and refound the fun of listening to the radio)
- Bill Frisell’s new album Valentine
books
- The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama
- Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of Music, Gerald Horne
- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky
- Reaganland, America’s right turn 1976-1980, Rick Perlstein
- Exoplanets, dimond worlds, super earths, pulsar planets, and the search the new search for life beyond our solar system
articles
Here is list of current popular science articles I find interesting. I encourge students to read these types of articles. I find these types of articles enjoyable and they often remind me why I started to study science.
- How Julia Robinson helped define the limits of mathematical knowledge
- Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse
- Physics books of 2020
- Contemplating the End of Physics
- Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
- How big can a fundamental particle be?
- Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
- Nature through the looking glass
- The neutrino painter
- What dark matter is (probably) not
- Half the universe was missing… until now
- LHCb discovers a new type of tetraquark
- CMS SEES EVIDENCE FOR THE HIGGS BOSON DECAYING INTO MUONS
- A new view of the Higgs boson
- Random Search Wired Into Animals May Help Them Hunt
- Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
- LHC creates matter from light
- A bit of MAGIC
- How big is a neutron star?
- A Heavyweight Merger
- A robot ballet