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By Sean Carroll | August 18, 2008 1:06 am

Apparently this is some newfangled technology by which pajamas-wearing loners can share their deep thoughts with strangers. New examples keep appearing, as if the existing blogs don’t already say more or less everything worth saying. Here is a long-overdue blogroll update, conveniently sorted into categories:

Physics-y Blogs

Yes, Leonard Susskind has a blog. No, he doesn’t update it. But he was answering questions in comments there for a while.

Blogs Not … Physics. Some Not Even Blogs.

No, I don’t read all of these blogs, not to mention all of the others on the blogroll; it’s more fun to rotate through different ones occasionally. And it’s absolutely crucial to use a newsreader, either Bloglines or Google Reader (or whatever). Infinitely easier. In the future, sleazy guys in bars will be asking not for your number, but for your RSS feed.

Nevertheless, there remain people out there who pine for the days of paper cuts and text you can underline. Female Science Professor has noted this proclivity, and turned some of her greatest blog hits into a book. Maybe we should do that someday?

And remember, if you have a blog that you would like to see on our blogroll, just let us know. We’ll forward the suggestion to our crack team of blog critics and reviewers, who will subject the blog to a rigorous screening program, after which we will forget about it for six months and perhaps update the blogroll.

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  • http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~brewer/ Brendon Brewer
  • http://blog.chungyc.org/ Yoo

    ERV would be a nice science-y but non-physics-y blog to see in the blogroll. (And I wonder if my own Stochastic Scribbles is good enough for inclusion?)

  • http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com Lab Lemming

    “We’ll forward the suggestion to our crack team of blog critics and reviewers, who will subject the blog to a rigorous screening program, after which we will forget about it for six months”

    Peer review in the blogosphere?

  • http://www.pieter-kok.staff.shef.ac.uk Pieter Kok

    Do you think Susskind was scared off his own blog by commenter “wavemein”? ;-)

  • http://theperfectsilence.com Davin

    Wherein I derive the recipe for triple chocolate cake from general relativity.
    http://theperfectsilence.com

  • http://coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com Professor R

    That’s a very useful list, I was unaware of most of them. May I suggest that interactions.org have a useful daily list. Also my own humble effort on introductory cosmology is at http://coraifeataigh.wordpress.com

  • http://dotphys.net Rhett Allain

    More self promotion:

    http://dotphys.net

    sorry

  • TS

    Nice list. (Now I’m never going to find time to get any work done.)

    I randomly picked the Symmetry Breaking blog and found a great set of 3D pictures of the Large Hadron Collider. Felt almost like I was actually there taking a tour of the place.

  • http://skepticsplay.blogspot.com/ miller

    I occasionally blog about physics and math. The other half is skepticism.

    Skeptic’s play

  • http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/sean/ Sean

    Self promotion is encouraged! No need to apologize. But if you tell people a little bit about what to expect from your blog, you might get more hits.

  • http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com nick herbert

    My Quantum Tantra site craves citing as your one-stop source for sex, drugs and quantum physics.

    http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com

    thanks, Sean, for your outreach program to the huddled masses on the fringes of the blogosphere.

  • Michael T.

    Nicely done astronomy blog. Updated frequently and he always posts some really cool stuff.

    http://www.centauri-dreams.org/

  • http://dotphys.net Rhett Allain

    Ok, if self promotion is ok, I will give a description also.
    http://dotphys.net

    This blog mostly does some analysis of everyday stuff and stuff I find online. It was originally designed as a set of example projects undergrad students in an introductory course could do, but I got carried away.

  • http://reducedmass.com Henrik Brink

    First of all, this is a nice list. Didn’t know most of them.

    And who wouldn’t take the opportunity to do some self promotion? reducedmass.com is a science blog for all the not-necessarily-in-science-but-still-interested people out there. Main areas are physics and astronomy.

  • http://www.sunclipse.org Blake Stacey

    There goes my so-called productivity! Via the High Energy Mayhem blog, I found a talk by Krishna Rajagopal (my professor for third-term quantum — small world) on applying AdS/CFT to strongly coupled liquids like RHIC’s quark-gluon soups and cold fermionic atoms tuned to Feshbach resonance. . . . No work will happen today.

  • http://www.sunclipse.org Blake Stacey

    Oh, and thanks for including my blog in the list.

  • Patrick

    See Bee’s blog, it’s just great! @ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/

  • http://tyrannogenius.blogspot.com Neil B. ?

    Now that self-promotion has edged in as precedent, I’ll offer the suggestion that my “Tyrannogenius” blog has the cutest impudent-braggartry title in business. Make your own mind up whether I have anything there worth saying (and I don’t keep it up well enough.) I do offer some points about why the universe is three-dimensional, and about paradoxes in quantum mechanics. I figure I really do have some bragging rights in the latter area, since Goo’ search for “quantum measurement paradox” places my post at #6 just now (it made it up to #2 a few days ago.)

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  • Lawrence B. Crowell

    I am partial to xckd.

    Lawrence B. Crowell

  • http://excitedstate.wordpress.com excited state

    Even though I was added to the blog roll, I will add a few words about it here:
    http://excitedstate.wordpress.com

    I am an entering first-year grad student in physics, hoping to go into high energy theory. The blog will be about my views of grad school classes, TA, and research, along with general thoughts about life as a grad student and about physics in general.

  • http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2008/07/sound-of-billiard-balls.html Plato
  • http://hackthesmear.blogspot.com/ Doubt and Verify

    More ramblings from the mind that brought you Smearland…

    http://hackthesmear.blogspot.com/

    A scientist struggles with what it would mean to recast the laws of physics into 5 dimensions of experience.

    Not for those with a low tolerance for the fringe. ;)

  • http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com Ian Durham

    Thanks for adding me to the blogroll, though my blog is actually not all that new. It’s now been around for a bit over two years. It’s just that no one seems to read it.

  • True_Q

    The Bad Plus!? I must say, I’m shocked! I love their music!
    Beside that – thx for many interesting links.

  • http://mushfiq.net MUSHFIQ

    Hi sean, here is my blog( biased to LQG )

    http://mushfiq.net

    Thanks.

  • http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/ Blake Stacey

    My site has moved to a new home with spurious trappings of officiality.

  • http://physics.sharif.ac.ir/~baghram Shant Baghram

    It is pleasure for me to add my self-teaching cosmology blog:
    http://www.tiyezerk.blogspot.com/

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Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. Here are some of his favorite blog posts, home page, and email: carroll [at] cosmicvariance.com .

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