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Carl E. Wieman

Carl E. Wieman

Writing for PS since 2008
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Carl E. Wieman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. He is currently Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia and Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado.

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    Putin’s Meaningless Coup

    Sergei Guriev

    The message of Vladimir Putin’s call in his recent state-of-the-nation speech for a constitutional overhaul is not that the Russian regime is going to be transformed; it isn’t. Rather, the message is that Putin knows his regime is on the wrong side of history – and he is dead set on keeping it there.

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