Sean Carroll

(Apologies for the ugly blog format.

George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31.

In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching Company): Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Mysteries of Modern Physics:Time, and The Higgs Boson and Beyond.

This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta.

Just a few years ago, Australian Catholic University (ACU) established a new Dianoia Institute of Philosophy.

This year we give thanks for Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem.

Just in case there are any blog readers out there who haven’t heard from other channels: I have a new book out!

As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school, when I visited Johns Hopkins for an awards ceremony for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

This year we give thanks for something we’ve all heard of, but maybe don’t appreciate as much as we should: electromagnetism.

The nature of consciousness remains a contentious subject out there.