Not Even Backreaction

Over at bloggingheads, they've posted a video conversation between Peter Woit of Not Even Wrong and Sabine Hossenfelder of Backreaction. They talk about string theory a bit, as you might imagine, but also about a wide range of issues in math and physics, and math- and physics-blogging.

Sabine evidently had some difficulty getting a connection to work out, so the video quality is low. The video doesn't add all that much value, though, and it's a fairly interesting conversation.

The whole bloggingheads.tv thing is kind of an odd format, and I can't help wondering what it would be like. Maybe I should dig out the webcam that Kate's parents gave us, and see how it works...

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