Brian Greene, everyone's favorite string theorist popularizer (well, except to those who really hate string theory), wrote an excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times last week explaining -- in crystal-clear language -- what scientists hope to find now that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running.

Some time in sixth grade a well-meaning librarian shoved me out of the Scifi/Horror aisle and into the dreaded youthbook (Jugendbuch) section, an act that had unintended consequences. The books in that aisle were neatly marked with dots, the more dots the higher the recommended age.

In addition to the below post on gene therapy, keep a watch out for a review paper on the topic (by yours truly) that was just accepted into Hearing Research.

I've been saving this picture for more than a year, not showing it to anyone or posting it anywhere online, not wanting to break the embargo:

Three good reasons why you should be writing something, somewhere on the Web:

Quantum entanglement is weird. And I mean weird even for quantum mechanics, which sets a whole new level for weird.

Here’s a new paper of mine, with Adrienne Erickcek and Mark Kamionkowski: A Hemispherical Power Asymmetry from Inflation

It seems as though the NF-κB transcription factor is turning up all over the place these days.