A few links to interesting things before I hop on an airplane:
We've talked before (well, Anthony Aguirre talked for us) about the Foundational Questions Institute, an organization devoted to supporting work on, how should we put it, foundational questions in the physical sciences. I was originally a little leery about the whole operation, but have since been convinced that FQXi is a respecable and independent organization, even if the acronym continues to baffle me. I've even become a member, although I'm still working out what that means. Now they've launched a new community site, which looks interesting. There are feature articles, news items, forums, and blogs. We're talking serious Foundational Questioning 2.0 here. Have a look.
Stuart Coleman at Daily Irreverence will soon be hosting Philosophia Naturalis, the physical-sciences blog carnival. If you've written or read something great along those lines recently, be sure to send him a line to have it included.
David Harris at symmetry writes to let us know that they're compiling a Particle Physics Life List, and need good suggestions. That is to say, they want a list of the 101 particle-physics-oriented things that everyone should do once in their life. I would have suggested "enjoy a buffalo burger at a Fermilab barbeque," but they've already included "see one of Fermilab's newborn baby buffalo," and there's some tension there. Cycle of life and all that, however.
