{"id":7764,"date":"2011-12-07T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7764"},"modified":"2011-12-07T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:42:23","slug":"a-salon-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/a-salon-of-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Salon of Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Strassler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/12\/06\/guest-post-matt-strassler-on-hunting-for-the-higgs\/\">post<\/a> prodded me to look back and notice something: we really have had quite an amazing collection of guest bloggers over the years.  There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/guest-bloggers\/\">page on the site<\/a> dedicated to keeping track (as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/category\/guest-post\/\">category<\/a>), but nobody every clicks there, so I thought I would just reproduce the list here.  We have a few more in the pipeline, keep your eyes peeled!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/11\/14\/our-first-guest-blogger-lawrence-krauss\/\">Lawrence Krauss<\/a> on string-theory skepticism<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/02\/28\/paul-kwiat-on-quantum-computation\/\">Paul Kwiat<\/a> on quantum computation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/03\/28\/the-foundational-questions-institute-anthony-aguirre\/\">Anthony Aguirre<\/a> on the Foundational Questions Institute<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/10\/22\/guest-post-chanda-prescod-weinstein\/\">Chanda Prescod-Weinstein<\/a> on the community of scientists <\/li>\n<li>Joe Polchinski (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/12\/07\/guest-blogger-joe-polchinski-on-the-string-debates\/\">the string debates<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/05\/21\/guest-post-joe-polchinski-on-science-or-sociology\/\">science or sociology<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/04\/11\/miniboone-neutrino-result-guest-blog-from-heather-ray\/\">Heather Ray<\/a> on MiniBoone<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/02\/19\/guest-post-michelangelo-dagostino-on-particle-physics-fieldwork-in-antarctica\/\">Michelangelo D&#8217;Agostino<\/a> on particle physics fieldwork in antarctica<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/04\/21\/guest-post-juan-collar-on-dark-matter-detection\/\">Juan Collar<\/a> on dark matter detection<\/li>\n<li>Tom Levenson (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/06\/02\/guest-post-tom-levenson-on-isaac-newton-as-the-first-cosmologist\/\">Isaac Newton as the first cosmologist<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/06\/04\/guest-post-tom-levenson-on-the-iraq-war-suicides-and-the-material-basis-of-consciousness\/\">Iraq War suicides and the material basis of consciousness<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/06\/06\/guest-post-tom-levenson-on-einstein-religion-and-jewishness\/\">Einstein, religion, and Jewishness<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/06\/12\/guest-post-joel-corbo-on-graduate-school-and-teaching\/\">Joel Corbo<\/a> on graduate school and teaching<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/09\/07\/guest-post-david-e-kaplan-on-the-lhc-on-the-history-channel\/\">David E. Kaplan<\/a>, the LHC on the History Channel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/11\/03\/guest-post-george-djorgovski-a-new-world-overture\/\">George Djorgovski<\/a>, <em>A New World Overture<\/em> (science and virtual worlds)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/01\/29\/guest-post-michael-peskin-on-john-updike\/\">Michael Peskin<\/a> on John Updike<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/02\/11\/guest-post-kip-thorne-on-stephen-hawking\/\">Kip Thorne<\/a> on Stephen Hawking<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/03\/23\/guest-post-marcelo-gleiser-on-how-do-we-know\/\">Marcelo Gleiser<\/a> on filtering and empirical knowledge<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/04\/22\/making-extra-dimensions-disappear\/\">Matt Johnson<\/a> on making extra dimensions disappear<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/07\/13\/guest-post-evalyn-gates-on-cosmic-magnification-or-invasion-of-the-giant-blue-space-amoebas\/\">Evalyn Gates<\/a> on gravitational lensing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/04\/26\/guest-post-malcolm-maciver-on-war-with-the-cylons\/\">Malcolm MacIver<\/a> on intelligent robot warriors<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/05\/06\/guest-post-caleb-scharf-on-the-shadow-biosphere\/\">Caleb Scharf<\/a> on the Shadow Biosphere<\/li>\n<li>Eugene Lim on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/06\/09\/guest-post-eugene-lim-on-education-in-haiti\/\">education in Haiti<\/a>, and a followup on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/07\/13\/guest-post-eugene-lim-on-calculus-in-haiti\/\">calculus in Haiti<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/12\/22\/observing-the-multiverse-guest-post\/\">Matt Johnson<\/a> on observing the multiverse<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/02\/03\/guest-post-neal-weiner-on-the-era-of-dark-matter-direct-detection\/\">Neal Weiner<\/a> on the coming era of dark-matter detection<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/04\/12\/guest-post-jim-kakalios-on-the-quantum-mechanics-of-source-code\/\">Jim Kakalios<\/a> on the quantum mechanics of <em>Source Code<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/category\/guest-post\/\">Lisa Randall<\/a> on writing <em>Knocking on Heaven&#8217;s Door<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Great Quantum Cosmology\/Eternal Inflation Debate: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/10\/24\/guest-post-tom-banks-contra-eternal-inflation-2\/\">Tom Banks<\/a> on eternal inflation; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/10\/26\/guest-post-don-page-on-quantum-cosmology\/\">Don Page<\/a> on quantum cosmology<\/li>\n<li>The Great Quantum Mechanics Debate: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/11\/16\/guest-post-tom-banks-on-probability-and-quantum-mechanics\/\">Tom Banks<\/a> on quantum probabilities, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/11\/18\/guest-post-david-wallace-on-the-physicality-of-the-quantum-state\/\">David Wallace<\/a> on the physicality of the quantum state<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/12\/06\/guest-post-matt-strassler-on-hunting-for-the-higgs\/\">Matt Strassler<\/a> on the hunt for the Higgs boson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Strassler&#8217;s post prodded me to look back and notice something: we really have had quite an amazing collection of guest bloggers over the years. There is a page on the site dedicated to keeping track (as well as a category), but nobody every clicks there, so I thought I would just reproduce the list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}