Comments on: Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium: Election 2008 Edition

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:51:24 +0000

Is 45 the new 30?

By: Yanchik

Yanchik — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:05:28 +0000

Planaria ? As in “The Best of The Worm Runner’s Digest” ? Wow, but that takes me back…

See…

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1137778149&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26tn%3DThe%2BWorm-Runners%2BDigest%26x%3D62%26y%3D9

if you appreciate old scientific spoofery and high jinks.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:34:25 +0000

Hi Lemming,

we’re working on the author name position. The link I gave to the Symposium will eventually contain audio, slides, etc. To see what it’ll be like you could look at last year’s:

http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FRONTIERS_usfos_2007program

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:12:07 +0000

Mark,
Are there abstracts or recordings of the presentations online? I’d love to see the exoplanetary stuff.

And because no other commenters have mentioned it yet, with multiauthor blogs it is really useful to have the bloggers name at the top of the post, and not the bottom. Maybe I should direct my complaints to this guy instead:
webmaster@discovermagazine.com

By: Gordon Stangler

Gordon Stangler — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:16:20 +0000

Congrats on the move. All I ask is if there is a way to change the hypertext color a bit; I am having problems spotting the text links.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:02:10 +0000

Inflation certainly doesn’t require string theory. But looking at how inflation works in the context of string theory might lead you to discover some things you wouldn’t otherwise have noticed; that’s the kind of thing Silverstein is doing.

By: changcho

changcho — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:41:14 +0000

“She talked about some string theory models of the early universe (inflation, and string theory cosmic strings for you experts)”

Inflation does not require sting theory, does it? Good luck with your cold.

By: Mandeep

Mandeep — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:10:52 +0000

Hey Mark- long time no talk, but cool to see you regularly posting, even as CV has come to be hosted now by Satanic cultists (by their own admission ;-> ) — anyway, pretty amazing, this whole election dealio, no? my fervent hope is that a much more pro-science flavor comes into the White House now, and we see a very different approach to both unpleasant but real scientific facts, *and* to funding physical sciences, in the coming years.

And, btw, if you think *you* were happy out there on the far left coast (which you may remember i’m actually a native of), just think what it was like out here in Central Ohio where we *knew* how our state voted counted — i’ve never seen an entire hotel reception area packed full of more happiness-crazed people (downtown at the big Dem election night party, as the Ohio returns came in). and, of course, this was repeated worldwide, that eve, and over the next day.. what a night to remember, eh? phew. :->

-M

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:20:55 +0000

That’s right, the entire conference will be available soon and, as you say, previous years are there.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:09:12 +0000

I just went to the link for the Symposium. It appears that the presentations from previous years are available and I can only assume that this years will be at some point in the future. Looks like some interesting stuff both from prior years as well as this years.

Thanks,