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"Elves, Santa, boxes, and quantum measurements. That's the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem: quantum measurements are contextual."
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"When the researchers crunched the data, though, they found that the likelihood of assaults increased by 112 percent when the home team suffered an upset loss,"
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Three vignettes from the admissions office.
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They still don't see any dark matter.
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Peter Woit outburst in 3... 2... 1...
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Actually, I was planning on writing a bit about the Crafoord prize soon, but not exactly an outburst, since I think Witten and Kontsevich richly deserve it. It's a prize for mathematics, and those two have done great mathematics, some of it inspired by working on string theory. String theory has actually had a very positive effect on mathematics, and the Witten-Kontsevich stuff is just one part of that story. Of course it has been a disaster for physics, but that's a different story...