Only 200 years too late, he could have been Talleyrand!

Because all the best physicists also like poetry ;) Steven Weinberg on Hong-Mo Chan (of the Chan-Paton factors in string theory), who has just died.

Just in case anyone thinks hostility against theoretical physics is new, re-posting from an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum a few years ago.

You can get into an Ivy League through a parental donation. Or alumni preference. Or through being good at rowing or athletics or golf. Often those who wouldn’t get into Oxbridge on academic merit say they go to the US because of discrimination. When really…..

There is a very competitive junior research fellowship (postdoc) opportunity in Oxford, Merton College. Link in comments.

Welcome to all new Oxford undergraduates this week, with commiserations to those not studying physics.

Daily Mail discovers existence of Cambridge:

And I thought I was stretching it working Beowulf into the beginning of my quantum lecture notes....

The more you see phones everywhere all the time, with the insatiate fangs of the TikTok tempter reaching deep into young minds -- the more you appreciate the appropriateness of the Apple logo.

If the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral did poetry