George Shiber
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Princeton physicists discover topological behavior of electrons in three-dimensional magnetic material
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In a room-temperature magnet, researchers find behaviors of electrons that mimic massless particles and anti-particles.
The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers
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A set of troubling charts shows how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
George Shiber CC is “an unconscionable assault on the poor”! “progress is stalling at a time when it is supposed to be accelerating ... This transformation needs to happen in the next ten years ... and it has to involve everyone." The hard truths of climate change. 18h
Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality: New Essays // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
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George Shiber Philosophy book-reviews: — Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality: New Essays — Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society 43h
Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
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George Shiber Philosophy book-reviews: — Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality: New Essays — Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society 43h
Evidence for Gauge/Gravity Correspondence for D$p$-branes at Weak 't Hooft Coupling
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We consider gauge/gravity correspondence for general Dp-branes with $0\le p\le 4$, namely, the duality between the (p+1)-dimensional maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and superstring theory on the near-horizon limit of the Dp-brane...
George Shiber "We consider gauge/gravity correspondence for general Dp-branes with 0≤p≤4, namely, the duality between the (p + 1)-dimensional maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and superstring theory on the near-horizon limit of the Dp-brane solution." 3d
“Statistical Inference Enables Bad Science; Statistical Thinking Enables Good Science” « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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George Shiber “Statistical Inference Enables Bad Science; Statistical Thinking Enables Good Science” 3d
Americans Have Always Celebrated Hacks and Swindlers | Essay
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Grab a burger at the James Dean diner in Prague, pay homage to the Miles Davis monument in Kielce, Poland, or stop by the Elvis fan club of Malaysia, and
I think that science is mostly “Brezhnevs.” It’s rare to see a “Gorbachev” who will abandon a paradigm just because it doesn’t do the job. Also, moving beyond naive falsificationism « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Historical and Philosophical Insights about General Relativity and Space-time from Particle Physics - Philsci-Archive
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George Shiber Deep reads in the philosophy of physic: — Historical and Philosophical Insights about General Relativity and Space-time from Particle Physics — Philosophical Foundations of Effective Field Theories 7d
Philosophical Foundations of Effective Field Theories - Philsci-Archive
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George Shiber Deep reads in the philosophy of physic: — Historical and Philosophical Insights about General Relativity and Space-time from Particle Physics — Philosophical Foundations of Effective Field Theories 7d
Moore & ladies: high-Hodge vacua are less numerically dominant than thought
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There are many interesting new hep-th papers today. The first author of the first paper is Heisenberg, Kallosh and Linde have a post-Planck...
George Shiber "Clearly, everyone whose world view finely depends on claims about "the large number of string vacua" has the moral duty to study the paper and perhaps to try to go beyond it." 8d
Shut Up, Franzen
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Climate change is real and things will get worse—but because we understand the driver of potential doom, it's a choice, not a foregone conclusion
George Shiber "Science offers something close to certainty on many fronts, but on doom, it is ambiguous ... I am a scientist, which means I believe in miracles. I live on one." Very powerful and beautiful read! 8d
The Falling Man
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Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the...
George Shiber "In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it." The Falling Man: An unforgettable story. #September11 9d
Remembering from the Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
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George Shiber Philosophy book-reviews: — Remembering from the Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind — Explaining Evil: Four Views 10d
Explaining Evil: Four Views // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
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George Shiber Philosophy book-reviews: — Remembering from the Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind — Explaining Evil: Four Views 10d
Overview of High Energy String Scattering Amplitudes and Symmetries of String Theory
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In this paper, we studied symmetries of string scattering amplitudes in the high energy limits of both the fixed angle or Gross regime (GR) and the fixed momentum transfer or Regge regime (RR). We calculated high energy string scattering amplitudes...
George Shiber — Overview of High Energy String Scattering Amplitudes and Symmetries of String Theory — The String Theory Landscape 10d
Robert Frank, revolutionary American photographer, dies aged 94
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Frank’s seminal book The Americans, with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, helped to change the direction of photography
George Shiber "The eye should learn to listen before it looks." Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, has died. His photos captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today! 10d
Influential Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank dies age 94
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Frank was most known for his work The Americans, which captured ordinary scenes from US life in the 1950s.
George Shiber "The eye should learn to listen before it looks." Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, has died. His photos captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today! 10d
Lawrence Lessig: What Leads to Academic Corruption?
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The first episode of Harvard Magazine’s new podcast, Ask a Harvard Professor, delves into academic corruption, and why “doing good can make you bad.”
George Shiber Even the perception that corporations and industry lobby groups pay academics for expert testimony before Congress will result in an erosion of public confidence in scholarly research & the impartiality of the academy. What Leads to Academic Corruption? 11d
The ever-winning lottery ticket: Mathematicians solve a dusty mystery
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Is there a lottery ticket that always wins? So goes the popular version of a theoretical conundrum posed in 1969 by English mathematician Adrian R.D. Mathias within the field of set theory, an area dealing with infinity in mathematics.
George Shiber The Ramsey property implies no MAD families "There is no lottery ticket that always wins Mathias' lottery game" Beauty: The proof exploits an idea which has its natural roots in ergodic theory, topological dynamics, and invariant descriptive set theory 11d