Good Omens
I thought my first valuable experiences regarding my research weren’t to arrive until mid-June. And yet there I was, in my upgraded seat on my flight to London – sitting right next to Suzanne Massie,...
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Analyzing Home
I know I'm being funded to spend ten weeks this summer at an Astrophysics Institute in Moscow and write about it, but I'm here, at home, before I proceed to do that. And this is a summer of study, so...
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In Post-Communist Russia..
I've been in Moscow for a week now, and things have finally settled down sufficiently to allow me to write this post. They couldn't have been more inconvenient over the last fortnight, thanks to a...
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Amazing, isn't it? My friend and I were on the Starii (Old) Arbat when we saw these traditional musicians on the street. I have never seen or heard of anything like it, and I still can't figure out the...
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Loose Ends
After the last post, writing up and publishing the Physics paper took most of my time, with the remainder captured in the three minutes above. Here's a long overdue, compact summary of the wonderful...
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