[A guest post for INSPIRE originally posted here.]

We are familiar with the critical role of INSPIRE in searching for papers, following references, tracking the citations, and providing author profiles.  Now INSPIRE is taking steps to extend this service to data, thus creating a rich new layer to the information …

[originally posted on Quantum Diaries]

The discovery of the Higgs boson is a major step forward in our understanding of nature at the most fundamental levels. In addition to being the last piece of the standard model, it is also at the core of the fine tuning problem -- one of …

Wow, perhaps this is my first real blog post since rebooting thoeryandpractice.org.
And really one of my first blog posts ever.

I'm back from a really invigorating trip to CERN to give some statistics lectures to the CERN summer school. I played around with d3.js, a cool javascript …