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The Edublogs Magazine : Who Are the Top Edubloggers? "Aseem Badshah has created a listing of the Top Education Bloggers or edubloggers based upon Technorati's rankings." This page reviews some of them. (tags: blogs education academia) The Other Side of Graduate Admissions | Cosmic Variance How…
Through my computer science "information is king" eyeglasses, there are really only two notions which thoroughly distinguish quantum theory from classical theories of how the world works: the nonlocal nature of quantum correlations as exemplified by Bell's theorem and the much less well known…
Songs for the Dumped: The Prelude | Popdose "[A] two-week anthology in which music nerds write about tracks they've attached to a particular crippling breakup, let you splash around in the stories behind them and hopefully, if we've done our jobs, make you feel slightly better about your own mi (…
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Ask the Administrator: Suggestions for Research? What should people be studying about community colleges? (tags: academia social-science economics science) Buying a Spot on the Syllabus :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher…

Actually, I was planning on writing a bit about the Crafoord prize soon, but not exactly an outburst, since I think Witten and Kontsevich richly deserve it. It's a prize for mathematics, and those two have done great mathematics, some of it inspired by working on string theory. String theory has actually had a very positive effect on mathematics, and the Witten-Kontsevich stuff is just one part of that story. Of course it has been a disaster for physics, but that's a different story...