Cosmic Variance is a group blog by people who, coincidentally or not, all happen to be physicists and astrophysicists:

• Daniel Holz
• JoAnne Hewett
• John Conway
• Julianne Dalcanton
• Mark Trodden
• Risa Wechsler
• Sean Carroll

Our day (and night) jobs notwithstanding, the blog is about whatever we find interesting — science, to be sure, but also arts, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia. We have similar outlooks on many things, widely disparate opinions about others, and will do our best to keep the discourse reasonably elevated.