My friend and frequent collaborator Mark Trodden<\/a> has buckled under the pressure and finally started a blog of his own, Orange Quark<\/a>. “Orange” because he is in the Physics department at Syracuse, a Big East power and longtime rival of my alma mater, Villanova. Both schools somehow made it into Slate’s list of NCAA basketball teams we hate<\/a>, which makes little sense to me.<\/p>\n
Mark’s humor and intelligence will be very welcome in the blogosphere. His first post introduces himself, but I should also say that the graduate students at the Cosmo-02<\/a> conference voted him “Best-Dressed Cosmologist” in a contest that wasn’t really very close. Okay, so the competition wasn’t all that fierce. There was also a vote for worst-dressed, which had a rather more crowded field. And I’m going to keep the winner of that one secret.<\/p>\n
Rumors persist that Lisa Randall<\/a> will also start blogging soon. I think it would help with her book sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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