{"id":333,"date":"2006-06-20T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T10:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/20\/stringy-links\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T10:29:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T10:29:17","slug":"stringy-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/20\/stringy-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Stringy Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in keeping abreast of the latest stuff on string theory and its discontents, some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Shock is based in Beijing, and <a href=\"http:\/\/jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/strings-2006-day-1.html\">blogging about the Strings 2006 meeting<\/a>. He&#8217;s got a first-day recap including descriptions of several of the talks, and incident events.<\/li>\n<li>Victor Rivelles is also blogging from Beijing, and has recaps of <a href=\"http:\/\/rivelles.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/strings-2006.html\">day one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/rivelles.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/strings-2006-day-2.html\">day two<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Paper of Record <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/20\/science\/20hawk.html?ex=1308456000&#038;en=6dfa564f20de6e92&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">loves Stephen Hawking<\/a>, and writes about his visit to China for the conference.<\/li>\n<li>Christine Dantas has re-posted her top ten lists (which were taken down in part due to some unpleasant comment behavior). The re-posted articles have comments closed, but she invites comments in new posts linking them, so I&#8217;ll link those, and you can click through to the full lists: <a href=\"http:\/\/christinedantas.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/top-10-string-theory-results-again.html\">Top Ten String Theory Results<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christinedantas.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/top-10-results-in-lqg-and-spin-foams.html\">Top Ten Loop Quantum Gravity Results<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Not a link, but a comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/math.ucr.edu\/home\/baez\/README.html\">John Baez<\/a> in the highly technical comment-thread dispute over the LQG list, that sort of sums the whole thing up: &#8220;It&#8217;s quite clear that this &#8216;listing of accomplishments&#8217; is occuring not because theorists are proud of what they&#8217;ve achieved, but because people are wondering if they&#8217;ve achieved anything at all.&#8221; You can decide for yourself based on the lists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/challenge.php?id=146\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in keeping abreast of the latest stuff on string theory and its discontents, some links: Jonathan Shock is based in Beijing, and blogging about the Strings 2006 meeting. He&#8217;s got a first-day recap including descriptions of several of the talks, and incident events. Victor Rivelles is also blogging from Beijing, and has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/20\/stringy-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stringy Links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,7,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","category-meetings","category-physics","category-science","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}