Update, 2023... The e-mail list is no longer used on a routine basis. Occasional e-mails are sent, so it is fine to sign up.
The subscription procedure below is fine (so far as I know).
Musings is an informal newsletter mainly highlighting recent science. It is intended as both fun and instructive. See the Introduction, listed at the top, for more information.
To sign up for weekly Musings e-mail announcements, send a blank e-mail to:
musings_science+subscribe@lists.berkeley.edu
(Both the subject line and the message body can be blank.)
You will receive an e-mail message asking you to confirm the subscription. I encourage you to use the e-mail option for confirmation; it seems to be smoothest.
E-mail confirmation problem... One e-mail system sends the confirmation to the wrong address. If your attempt to confirm doesn't yield a response within a few minutes, check the message you sent, and see what address it was sent to. The correct address is
musings_science+subconfirm@lists.berkeley.edu
What happens is that the +subconfirm part gets left out. I don't know why. I suspect it is a general problem between that e-mail system and Google Groups, so beware.If you have trouble subscribing, please e-mail me privately; see the contact info at the top or bottom of this page. I can add you manually.
How the e-mail list works...
The primary use is a short weekly announcement of what was posted in the previous week. This is most commonly sent on Wednesdays. (Day of sending is occasionally off, for holidays or just personal reasons; occasionally we skip a weekly e-mail, especially around the end-of-year holidays.)
Use of the list beyond that is open. The list is "moderated": any items sent to the list, whether replies or new, go to the list-owner.
I am happy to receive comments, and will try to use serious comments. You can send me things by regular e-mail; see Contact information (top or bottom of this page). The traffic on this list will be kept low; if it seems useful to distribute many comments by e-mail, we can, at some point, make a separate list for that.
The main page for current items is Musings.
The first archive page is Musings Archive.
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Last update: December 9, 2024