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My first review for Physics World is out online

It is about Tim Maudlin's latest book that tries to give a different spin to the oft-discussed topic of space and time. Read the rest here.

Documentation on History of science talk, Jan 3, Oregon State Valley Library

Update: Documents for talk can be found here Here is the divertisement for my talk followed by the abstract below: Please mark your calendars for our next Resident Scholar Lecture, to be delivered by Clarissa Lee of Duke University on Thursday, January 3 rd .  Lee’s talk, “Experiments, Fictions, and the Question of Science-Modeling in Speculative Physics,” will begin at 3:00 PM   in the Autzen Classroom , on the second floor of the Valley Library. Clarissa Lee is a Ph. D. candidate in the Literature Program at Duke.  She has served as Resident Scholar in the OSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center since December 4 th , and her presentation will include a description of her use of the History of Atomic Energy Collection , Nuclear Science Technical Reports Collection and Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers (specifically Linus Pauling’s vast collection of science fiction periodicals) in developing her ideas on speculative physics. Exper