{"id":9375,"date":"2005-12-06T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/12\/06\/expert-testimony\/"},"modified":"2005-12-06T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:40:23","slug":"expert-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/expert-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure whether it’s more accurate to describe my punditry as “fearless” or “shameless.” (This is just talking out loud, not a request for clarification.) Either way, I’ll be practicing it tonight on Milt Rosenberg’s show<\/a>, a two-hour daily interview program here at Chicago’s WGN (720 on your AM dial). The other guests will be fellow Chicagoland bloggers Ezster Hargittai<\/a> of Crooked Timber<\/a> and Dan Drezner<\/a> of the eponymous blog<\/a>. We’ll be talking about — wait for it — blogging. As we are all academics, the view of the blogosphere we’ll be offering will doubtless be hopelessly narrow and unrepresentative, but fascinating nonetheless. Brief description of the show on Milt’s own blog<\/a>, and you can listen live (9-11 p.m. Central) online here<\/a>; it’s possible that it may be archived, I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

I was on this show once before, several years ago, along with David Bodanis to talk about his book E=mc2<\/sup><\/a>. My role was that of an expert in relativity. It strikes me that it took well over a decade of professional training before anyone would think such a role was appropriate. Becoming an expert in blogging was much easier.<\/p>\n

In other celebrity news, Peter Steinberg of Quantum Diaries<\/a> was nice enough to describe me as a “physics super-blogger.” I have not yet decided whether this is damning by faint praise, or at least diminuition by modest association. The proximate cause of Peter’s description was the Einstein Conference<\/a> we held last Saturday at the Francis W. Parker School, which turns out to be Peter’s old high school!
\nSean Carroll and Angela Olinto
\nThis is a photo of me and Angela Olinto at the panel discussion part of the symposium, snapped by Peter’s cell phone<\/strike> fancy digital camera<\/a> and stolen from his flikr account<\/a> by me. Angela is sporting her stylish spectacles while I am gamely trying to moderate our extremely distinguished panel (Angela, Michael Levi of the SNAP collaboration, string theorist Jim Gates, Argonne theorist Murray Peshkin, neutrino experimentalist and fellow Quantum Diarist Debbie Harris<\/a>, and Fermilab Director Pier Oddone).<\/p>\n

Some of you might not be very familiar with Quantum Diaries<\/a>. It’s a wonderful idea to celebrate the World Year of Physics: grab some charismatic and energetic physicists and encourage them to blog for a year about what they’re doing. Sadly the year is almost over, but fortunately that means you can leaf through all the interesting entries that have accumulated. Other personal favorites include Caolionn O’Connell<\/a>, Gordon Watts<\/a>, and Stephon Alexander<\/a> — but they’re all good! Who knew physicists were people, too?<\/p>\n

Update:<\/em> Eszter<\/a> has a wrap-up of the Milt Rosenberg show — with pictures!<\/p>\n

Further update:<\/em> audio of segments of the Milt Rosenberg show<\/a> is now available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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