For more information: http://www.itsyourworld.org/assnfe/ev.asp?ID=2732&SnID=1993329581 Details Date:         Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Time:         6:00pm – 8:00pm Location:   World Affairs Council, San Francisco Street:       312 Sutter Street Second Floor San Francisco, CA Description Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or [...]

Please come out to hear about strings, branes, and all things weird and quantum mechanic-y from the physicist on the frontlines of string theory and Princeton prof Steven Gubser.  He will be discussing his neat new book THE LITTLE BOOK OF STRING THEORY for you New Yorker’s at NYC’s Book Culture, near Columbia University, tonight at 7:00 PM.  Hope you bing lots of questions and a curious mind!

Hope you can come out to see Steve give an entertaining talk on string theory, followed by a book signing for his new book THE LITTLE BOOK OF STRING THEORY, tomorrow night (4/20) at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ.  The event will begin at 5:30 PM.  For more information, please visit the Labyrinth Books website.

For many people, April 15th is a day of misery but this year it doesn’t have to be. Join Derek Bok at The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for a Morning Public Affairs program to discuss The Politics of Happiness.  Details of the event are below, or available at: http://www.cceia.org/calendar/data/0193.html Description: How can [...]

Please come out to hear about strings, branes, and all things weird and quantum mechanic-y from the physicist on the frontlines of string theory and Princeton prof Steven Gubser.  He will be discussing his neat new book THE LITTLE BOOK OF STRING THEORY Tuesday, April 20, at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ.  The event will begin at 5:30 PM.  Hope you bing lots of questions and a curious mind!

This event is part of the six-month old series with our partners at Labryinth Books called “Math & Science Night.”  This event is designed to bring science and math topics to an inquisitive public. 

Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
P: (609) 497-1600

It’s here!  It’s finally here!  You get discounted chocolate bunnies, poetry, and math awareness all in one month – what more could you need?

March certainly came in like a lamb and out like a Lion…or was it the other way around?  I guess it all depends on your geography but certainly Princeton had its fair share of snow and rain this winter.  Enough already!  So with spring and sunny skies here – hopefully to stay – how about an ode from Mark Slaughter to one of nature’s surest heralds to kick-off our celebration:

Daffodils

I fell in love –
Taken by the innocence of
Child-face daffodils –

Their perky April fanfares –
Clarion calls from yellow-ochre brass bands
Presaging, rejoicing, calling us:

‘Here we are! Here we are! ’

Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2010

Our friends over at The Rumpus (for those who don’t know, it’s an online magazine taking the pop out of culture and offering insight on what really matters.  For the full 411 check it out here!)  have posted a hilarious and oh-so-true piece by Ethan Watters on what (not) to do during an author appearance on “The Daily Show.”  Seriously, the man is spot on in his assessment.

Having accompanied an author or two in my day to major television interviews, what he says can be applied to pretty much any on-air appearance (except maybe Martha who will not, in fact, make eye contact.)  Television is a strange game to play for those used to parking it in front of a computer screen and letting those synapses fire – and it’s even stranger to watch from behind the scenes so just imagine what being on camera is like!

What’s your best advice for our up-and-coming green room guests?

We were very pleased to hear this week that two Princeton University Press economicstitles are on the longlist for consideration of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year–the only university press on the list.  Congratulations to George Akerlof and Robert Shiller for ANIMAL SPIRITS: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, and to Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff for their soon-to-be published THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Shortlist  announcements will be made in September.

Because it’s almost Friday…

Because PUP is up on science news…

Because we KNOW you’re frantically googling “Swine Flu” – excuse me – the “H1N1 Virus”…

I present NPR’s latest blog post: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/index.html?ps=ib

I hope you will enjoy not only the dancing bird, but the spotlight hogging hippopotamus.  (At the very least, least it’s a nice distraction from mass panic.  Props to NPR Science Desk-ers for levity.)