After a little bit of a silence blogging is back in style in Rigoland.

While reading Smolin's book I stumbled upon the passage in which he talks about how physics students are discouraged by the lack of interesting subjects early on and how at his school they had quantum physics as a freshman class. Smolin makes a good point that most of what is taught in our freshman classes is usually what students have seen in high school and it seems very boring. It is boring on two accounts: The subjects are never "cool" ones such as black holes ...

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Interesting read from the Times Online. It seems that computers are going to be reading the news for bank and hedge fund managers so that they can spend their times on other more important matters. At this rate, we will end up with computers doing all our work which reminds me of the following joke.

A very wealthy US businessman is visiting the south of Bolivia when he sees a native farmer just sitting under the sun taking a nap while his field is completely empty and not being cropped.

"Why don't you get to work and plant in ...

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I don't know how is it that I didn't find Cosmic Variance earlier. It is one gem of a blog. No, it is not just geeky science stuff, though it is run by five theoretical physicists so, you know...

Anyways, today I found this. It does bring about a very good point: for some reason people seem to think that learning basic science and math is relatively unimportant but that everyone -- or at least everyone who we call educated -- must know basic history, literature and other humanities. Our appreciation of math and science needs to be elevated to ...

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