I say this to every generation of student in theoretical high energy physics. There is one book that should not be missing from your personal collection: Aspects of Symmetry, by Sidney Coleman. Don’t just borrow it, own it. Go and get it now and carry it around with you while … Click to continue reading this post
Not surprisingly, there’s been a lot of interesting chatter about the recently announced stem cell research results I blogged about earlier. I did a longer blog post over on Correlations that might interest you (I managed to think of the pun for the title that I knew was in there somewhere, but could not manage it this morning over here).
Mentioned there are two more NPR items I thought were of note: […] Click to continue reading this post
You may have heard about the new stem cell breakthrough in the news. It seems to be quite significant – researchers (at Kyoto University and at Wisconsin-Madison) have managed to make human skin cells into stem cells (following on work done in mouse some announced some months back). If interested in the details (as I’m sure you are) you can read more about it in an AP story on the NPR web site here. (Yahoo’s version has pictures, such as the nerve cells above left from the Kyoto group. – try and spot the odd one out in their 14 image slide show.)
There was also a very informative chat about it with one of their science correspondents, Joe Palca, on Morning Edition, and you can listen to it here. There’ll […] Click to continue reading this post
