I have been coming to Paris pretty regularly over the last 30 years and I am always struck by the unique smell of the Metro.
Arrived in Paris for The Universe as a Quantum Lab with less than a couple of hours to go before my talk on a subject I don’t know much about.
We were listening to Bowie’s “Scary Monsters” with our three-year old and her first question on looking at the cover art was “Is that a boy or a girl?”, which I hope was an encouraging sign of her notions of gender fluidity (and then we played The Replacement’s “Androgynous”).
Pulsar discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3-million Breakthrough Prize.
Well deserved and long-delayed. With great commentary from @DrBrianKeating and @Dr_CMingarelli.
Very pleased with the new paper from my student, our collaborator @Dr_CMingarelli, and me: On the Amplitude and Stokes Parameters of a Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background — lots of good (and useful!) math and physics.
Thanks to Aretha for many things over the years, but perhaps especially for the dance parties she has inspired us to have with our one- and three-year old daughters over the last few days.
I am now so old that I have lost track, and am both embarrassed and happy to have discovered that this birthday is actually one less than I’ve been saying for the last few weeks.
My Nature review of When Einstein Walked with Gödel, by Jim Holt
The Planck 2018 results papers are available! (Direct from ESA today and on the arXiv tomorrow.)
Was pleased to find my toddler’s day-care group dancing to The Band’s “Rag Mama Rag” for yesterday’s Fathers’ Day celebrations! (I hadn’t realized that was actually their biggest UK hit… back in 1969.)