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Headsabloggin’

by Sean Carroll

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.


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Don’t worry, it doesn’t get mushy.

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10 Responses to “Headsabloggin’”

  1. 1.   bswift Says:
    February 9th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Awwwwww. :)

  2. 2.   John Preskill Says:
    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.

  3. 3.   Sean Says:
    February 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    Thanks, John! “Not just a fluctuation” is our motto.

  4. 4.   B Says:
    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.

  5. 5.   Robert Says:
    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.

  6. 6.   Lewis Perdue Says:
    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

  7. 7.   Reginald Selkirk Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 9:19 am

    Petition for Carl Sagan postage stamp

  8. 8.   Doug Says:
    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….”

  9. 9.   Lewis Perdue Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Doug: he can still do that in another part of the multiverse

  10. 10.   Eugene Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    awwwwwwwwwwww





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