News (2014/10/30)

Hi all,

Just a quick update on what's going on.

On the personal side of things, I've now completed both the general GRE and the physics GRE (which I travelled all the way to Perth for!) and so I have a little bit of time on my hands again. That means a return to blogging! I was originally intending to make a post about Faddeev-Popov ghosts in time for Halloween tomorrow (an idea I first had way back in June when we had a full moon Friday the 13th), however it was soon very apparent that to make it an accessible topic would require much more than a single post and require much more than a single week to write it all, so you may have to wait a little bit to see that one!

While I wasn't blogging I also had the idea to get some friends of mine to write guest posts explaining scientific papers they've published to give them a bit of the limelight and promote their hard work. I've had a couple of people indicate some interest so hopefully over the next few months we'll be seeing a few of those in addition to the usual content!

The next blog post will hopefully be on its way soon (give it a week or three) but in the meantime I thought I'd offer up some more recommendations, this time for Quanta Magazine, a general science online magazine published by the Simons Foundation which has some excellent physics coverage, and Symmetry Magazine, which is published by Fermilab and SLAC and is more focussed on particle physics. Take a look, I hope you enjoy them!