- A number of articles appeared yesterday saying that state-run Chinese media is reporting (as has been brewing for a while now) China will begin building the next supercollider in 2020. Here's hoping they carry through with it! As well this week, Phase II (prototyping) of the HL-LHC project has begun.
- Lisa Randall's book "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs" is now available; read an excerpt here.
- Links without thinks:
- Tommaso Dorigo's story of first post-doctoral position interviews.
- Quanta: Q&A with Gabriela González of Advanced LIGO, and "The Physical Origin of Universal Computing."
- BackReaction: "What is basic science and what is it good for?"
- In video/audio media:
- Hitoshi Murayama: When a Symmetry Breaks, physics colloquium at Cornell [1:02:45].
- US LHC: Back to the Future and CERN [2:45].
- Sixty Symbols: The Science of Drumming [9:03].
- Numberphile: Skewes' Number [10:25], and the Shape of DNA [9:10].
- Ending with some visual delights, here is François Moncarey’s projection mapping work which opened TEDxCERN:
- A few days ago the Cassini spacecraft performed its deepest ever dive through the southern plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus (and returned some incredible images).
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