Podango feed problems have been resolved.

Some of you may have experienced difficulties in receiving episodes of both Books and Ideas and the Brain Science Podcast during the last several weeks. With the help of Rob Walch of Podcast 411, the folks at Podango were able to help me return my feeds to there original state. This means that subscribers will [...]

Lee Smolin looks at the Einstein Myth

I haven’t tried to read Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Einstein because I found his biography of Benjamin Franklin insufferably boring. So I consider myself still on the search for a good biography of the most imp0rtant physicist of the 20th century.
Meanwhile, I can highly recommend physicist’s Lee Smolin’s essay, The Other Einstein, which appeared [...]