2010 Chateau Mayne-Guyon, Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux
I liked the 2009 Chateau Mayne-Guyon Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux a lot, in fact thought it one of the best values around in red wine. A quick note to let you know I liked the 2010 Chateau Mayne-Guyon,...
View ArticlePoulenc --- Complete Works (EMI)
Over the last few weeks I've been listening to "Francis Poulenc: Oeuvres Complètes" on EMI Classics (972165 2). The short take: if you like classical music, buy it. Amazing value at $44 for 20CDs...
View ArticleA thought on resistance to Bayesian statistics
I'm not a statistician, and as a quantum theorist of a relatively abstract sort, I've done little actual data analysis. But because of my abstract interests, the nature of probability and its use in...
View ArticleLa Donna del Lago, Santa Fe Opera 2013
This year's Santa Fe Opera's production of Rossini's La Donna del Lago (based on Sir Walter Scott's 1810 novel The Lady of the Lake) was a treat. Musically, quite a nice piece. I don't feel like...
View ArticleChristmas wines: Stratus 2007 Cabernet Franc, VQA Niagara Peninsula, and 2005...
Stratus is a rather high-end winery in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula area, at least to judge by their prices and modern, fashion-conscious tasting room out on the vine-laden flats between the QEW...
View ArticleLost and found Lester Young at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem,...
Ethan Iverson's Do the Math (DTM) is the one mainly-music blog that I read every word of. His work as composer and pianist with The Bad Plus, with Billy Hart in the Billy Hart Quartet, and elsewhere,...
View ArticleJohn Rangel and Michael Anthony play El Mesón tonight
If you like jazz at all and are looking for something to do tonight (Jan. 2, 2014) and in range of Santa Fe New Mexico, don't think twice, go hear John Rangel (piano) and Michael Anthony (guitar) play...
View Article¡Que viva el once agudo! Sonora Sanjuanera brings the clave at the Marriott...
After the FQXI's excellent conference on the Physics of Information in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and a wonderful day in San Juan and the El Yunque rainforest, being shown around by my wife's incredibly...
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Some ideas on food and entertainment for those attending SQUINT 2014 in Santa Fe
I'm missing SQUINT 2014 (bummer...) to give a talk at a workshop on Quantum Contextuality, Nonlocality, and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Bad Honnef, Germany, followed by collaboration with...
View ArticleProbable signature of gravitational waves from early-universe inflation found...
Some quick links about the measurement, announced today, by the BICEP2 collaboration using a telescope at the South Pole equipped with transition edge sensors (TESs) read out with superconducting...
View ArticleRestaurant Zur Herrenmuehle, Heidelberg
While visiting Markus Müller at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg to work on on our paper with Cozmin Ududec, I strolled all the way through the old town from my...
View ArticleMorning listening: Tchaikowsky and Piazzola on APM's Performance Today
I take Astor Piazzola's work very much on a composition by composition basis.... some of it leaves me relatively unmoved, other pieces I really enjoy. I really enjoyed the Tangata for saxophone...
View ArticleFingering a fragment of Silver
The great jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver died yesterday. Ethan Iverson has posted, at his blog Do the Math, an excellent transcription of Silver's piano playing in a trio with Percy Heath and...
View ArticleFree will and retrocausality in the quantum world, at Cambridge. I: Bell...
I'm in Cambridge, where the conference on Free Will and Retrocausality in the Quantum World, organized (or should that be organised) by Huw Price and Matt Farr is will begin in a few hours. (My room...
View ArticleMaria Stuarda, with Joyce DiDonato and Carmen Gianattasio at the Royal Opera,...
July 18th: my first time at Covent Garden, for the Royal Opera production (joint with Barcelona, the Theâtre des Champs-Elysées, and the Polish National Opera) of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda. The...
View ArticlePaul Groves, Joseph Illick at Santa Fe Festival of Song: Duparc, Britten,...
On August 8th, we were treated to singing of transcendent beauty from tenor Paul Groves, with superb accompaniment by pianist Joseph Illick, in deeply felt and well-conceived interpretations of songs...
View ArticleFree will and retrocausality at Cambridge II: Conspiracy vs. Retrocausality;...
Expect (with moderate probability) substantial revisions to this post, hopefully including links to relevant talks from the Cambridge conference on retrocausality and free will in quantum theory, but...
View ArticleQuantum imaging with entanglement and undetected photons in Vienna
Thanks to tweeters @AtheistMissionary and @robertwrighter for bringing to my attention this experiment by a University of Vienna group (Gabriela Barreto Lemos, Victoria Borish, Garrett D. Cole, Sven...
View ArticleQuantum imaging with entanglement and undetected photons, II: short version
Here's a short explanation of the experiment reported in "Quantum imaging with undetected photons" by members of Anton Zeilinger's group in Vienna (Barreta Lemos, Borish, Cole, Ramelow, Lapkiewicz and...
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Thinking about Robert Wald's take on the loss, or not, of information into...
A warning to readers: As far as physics goes, I tend to use this blog to muse out loud about things I am trying to understand better, rather than to provide lapidary intuitive summaries for the...
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