I’ve done Bloggingheads — where people who are more comfortable behind a keyboard than in front of a camera pick up the phone to talk about things they’d be too lazy to type about — before, but never with someone I was married to. But some marketing wizard thought it would be fun to have a special Valentine’s Day edition of Science Saturday. Say it together: Awwwwwww. So here I am with Jennifer, talking about brains and movies and whiteboards.
Don’t worry, it doesn’t get mushy.
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February 9th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Awwwwww.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Wow, you two are great together, even when 100 miles apart. Despite (or maybe because of) your incompatibilities, I predict a great future together. Not just a fluctuation.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Thanks, John! “Not just a fluctuation” is our motto.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
The Germans have come to Santa Barbara? Maybe I left at the right time
More seriously, the Germans are everywhere. There’s just many of us. No matter what conference I’ve been at I always found a corner where they’d speak German.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Nice to see and hear you chatting about the program at the Kavli Institute.
As for parametric resonance, see e.g. Landau/Lifshitz vol.1, pargr. 17, or a child on a swing.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
No Mushy?
We were all thinking this was going to be the Physics Porn that New Scientist was talking about
February 12th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Petition for Carl Sagan postage stamp
February 12th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I think we should all be thankful Sean chose physics over what obviously could have been a very lucrative alternative career:
“Hi, I’m sorry to bother you at dinner, but I have a terrific offer for you on a General Relativity textbook….”
February 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Doug: he can still do that in another part of the multiverse
February 12th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
awwwwwwwwwwww