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- Zoomplitudes 2020 [5/15/20]
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- The Wolfram Physics Project Makes Me Queasy [4/17/20]
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- 4gravitons, Spinning Up [3/27/20]
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- Science, the Gift That Keeps on Giving [12/27/19]
- Calculating the Hard Way, for Science! [12/20/19]
- QCD Meets Gravity 2019 [12/13/19]
- Life Cycle of an Academic Scientist [12/6/19]
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- Guest Post: On the Real Inhomogeneous Universe and the Weirdness of ‘Dark Energy’ [11/15/19]
- Academia Has Changed Less Than You’d Think [11/8/19]
- Rooting out the Answer [11/1/19]
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- Calabi-Yaus in Feynman Diagrams: Harder and Easier Than Expected [10/4/19]
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- Amplitudes 2019 Retrospective [7/12/19]
- Amplitudes 2019 [7/5/19]
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- Hexagon Functions V: Seventh Heaven [3/29/19]
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4 gravitons
The trials and tribulations of four gravitons and a postdoc
