What is string theory anyway?
Well, now you can find out.
Joe Polchinski at UCSB just gave the Director's Blackboard Seminar at KITP, and as usual it is webcast and podcast.
Go be inspired.
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Hearing the guy talk away and seeing the picture change every 10 seconds, or whatever - stress city. Unwatchable, for me anyway.
Shame, because I would have liked to see it.