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| 01/03/2009 Book Review - Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes
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| This week, we review Alex Vilenkin's 2006 book Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes, which explores the cosmological arguments in favor of the anthropic principle.
In this book,...
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| 01/03/2009 Looking Ahead to 2009
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| In science, trying to look ahead with any precision is always difficult. Scientists may have some expectations about what they could find, but who knows if those expectations are at...
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| 12/30/2008 About.com Physics 2008 Year in Review
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| These aren't necessarily the biggest stories of the year, but they're some of the most interesting ones that I've covered on the blog over the last year or so. For...
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| 12/29/2008 This Week in Physics History: Dec. 29 - Jan. 4
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| Jan. 3, 1486 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests an experimental flying machine.
Jan. 4, 1643 - English physicist, alchemist, and government official Sir Isaac Newton is born. Newton's accomplishments are...
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| 12/24/2008 Obama's Science Team
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| President-Elect Barack Obama has announced the key figures in his scientific team, including two Nobel Prize-winners. The announcements of his scientific team was made on December 17, during his weekly...
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| 12/24/2008 This Week in Physics History: Dec. 22 - 28
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| Dec. 27, 1571 - Johannes Kepler, German mathematician and astronomer, is born. Kepler is best known for developing Kepler's three laws of planetary motion.
Dec. 28, 1612 - Galileo Galilei discovers...
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| 12/23/2008 Film Review - Infinity
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| In this film, Matthew Broderick stars as young Richard P. Feynman, back in the 1930s and 1940s as he got his degree and began work on the Manhattan Project. Specifically,...
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| 12/14/2008 This Week in Physics History: Dec. 15 - 21
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| Dec. 19, 1714 - American astronomer John Winthrop is born. Winthrop was one of the first American scientists to be taken seriously in Europe, and had close ties to the...
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| 12/14/2008 Book Review - A Briefer History of Time
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| One of the best-selling popular science books of all time (probably the best-selling one) was Stephen Hawking's 1988 classic A Brief History of Time, which I read in middle school...
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| 12/08/2008 This Week in Physics History: Dec. 8 - 14
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| Dec. 14, 1546 - Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, mentor to Johannes Kepler, is born.
Dec. 10, 1684 - Edmund Halley reads a paper entitled "De motu corporum in gyrum" ("On the...
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