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We have a new blog on the network today!!!!!

George Musser is a senior editor at Scientific American, covering mainly space and physics. He is also the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory.

At his new blog, Critical Opalescence, George will have fun getting out of the "just the news" mode, instead poking at quirky ideas, forgotten papers, fascinating hypotheses and whatever else excites him on any given day. This will be fun!


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So, bookmark Critical Opalescence (the RSS feed should be working by the end of the day today) and go say Hello to George in the comments of his first post - Is Dark Matter a Glimpse of a Deeper Level of Reality?.

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