The Geomagnetic Jerk
Superb explanatory post - via Julien Aubert from l’Institut de physique du globe de Paris (CNRS/IPGP/IGN/Université de Paris), and writing at CNRS - focusing on the phenom of geomagnetic jerks. Today's Must Read.
XKCD, Physics Confession →
The Amplituhedron →
Behold, the Amplituhedron, a newly discovered mathematical object. Read the paper, here.
Coin, Same, Two Sides of... →
Apparently, string theory and loop quantum gravity may be two sides of the same coin, as it were... Astonishing.