Richard “Dick” Woit was from the “no pain, no gain” school of physical fitness. The professional athletes, middle-age businessmen and politicians who trained with him had to endure the verbal abuse he ...

A few weeks ago, my longtime teaching partner Judy Adrian and I wrapped up another semester of teaching our COR class at Edgewood College. COR classes “encourage students to examine the connection ...

Richard E. “Coach” Woit, 75, beloved brother of Joseph (Betty), and Kathleen (Jerome) Jarems; cherished uncle of Joseph (Debbie) Woit, and Lisa (Frank) Banyai; former All-American Arkansas State and ...

K.C. Cole, who teaches science journalism at USC's Annenberg School, is the author of "The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty." IN physics, truth and beauty often walk hand ...

“Not even wrong” was Wolfgang Pauli’s ultimate put-down for any theory he considered wide of the mark. Here it is adopted by Peter Woit – a mathematician at Columbia University – and aimed at the ...

String theory is the only game in town in physics departments these days. But echoing Lee Smolin's forthcoming The Trouble with Physics (Reviews, July 24), Woit, a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and a ...

Today we found out that there's proof that the Higgs boson is out there. But you probably knew that if you were following the physics world's best gossips who broke the news two weeks ago. Gossips.