🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die Preisträger:innen!
Martha Keil erhält den Wilhelm Hartel-Preis für ihre Forschungen zur jüdischen Geschichte, Anton Rebhan wird mit dem Erwin Schrödinger-Preis für Teilchenphysik ausgezeichnet.
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"I saw the message on her son’s t-shirt: Always be kind. ...that word 'always,' on a boy’s chest in the middle of a city that has been pounded for three years, has to be there, as a reminder that ideals are ideals, and that they are part of reality."
snyder.substack.com/p/always-be-...
Today LHCb presented a new measurement of the decay of a B meson into a K* and a μ+ μ- pair
Previous results disagreed with the Standard Model prediction for the branching fraction and angular distribution
The new measurement has almost twice as much data and still disagrees!
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New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
Happy Higgs discovery day! (July 4, 2012)
news.fnal.gov/2025/06/muon... Together with the new prediction from the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative arxiv.org/abs/2505.21476 a very strong and invaluable constraint on physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics - without diminishing the need for it!
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Zwei aktuelle Meldungen, die perfekt einander ergänzen:
„Russland intensiviert Sabotage-Aktivitäten gegen Europa.“
„AfD-Spitzenkandidatin Alice Weidel will Windräder abreißen lassen.“
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0A... This great video clip featuring my hero Bryce DeWitt was shared on X - it deserves a better place!
Such a relief that I can now remove a toXic app from the screen of my phone and replace it one with a more friendly appearance!
Blue sky south of Vienna
