In 2005 I had the immense pleasure of interviewing the eminent Iranian physicist Cumrun Vafa, of Harvard university, for Shahrvand English Magazine. Here follows a transcript of that interview.

So I had a dream where I had to pick out a tattoo to put somewhere. Introspection ensued ...

So after many years of using wordpress, for some reason i've decided to move to Jekyll, an SSG.

How to do things in order 1. Installation : Ruby install sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential check version : Ruby -v Install Jekyll : run gem install jeky...

When a non-Iranian friend of mine asked about how we name the days of the week in persian, i had to investigate!

During a class test, i noticed my students were all leaving an early question wherein they were to make a hypothesis blank.

It was the penultimate day and we had just arrived at the Lago Averno, by a most tortuous and misguided of paths, dead tired and hungry, only to find the place utterly deserted.

A conversation overheard today

There are at times those moments in life which are as beautiful as they are rare, when you are truly *moved* by something.

I receive some ... interesting... advice from a colleague.