The very entertaining and educational Sean Carrol ( @seanmcarroll ) was challenged to explain M-Theory on Twitter and was able to do so in 3 Tweets.  It is defiantly worth checking out (as are his normal Tweets) and it seems he will continue doing this in the future.  The next topic will be Higgs Boson.  The three Tweets regarding M-Theory can be found below:


https://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68499897946607616
https://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68500272464400384
https://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68500414957494273 

John C. Baez and John Huerta
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-strangest-numbers-in-string-theory

I just saw an interesting interview with Brian Greene by the NYT. You can check it out here. Sadly, it is a condensed version of the interview. Hopefully the full one will be posted as well.

CERN just released news that micro black holes, thought to be one of the ways to prove the extra dimensions required of String Theory, did not appear in any of there tests. While this does not disprove String Theory it is still disappointing as this was one of the first ways it was thought to reconcile String Theory with modern technology.

CERN release here.
IO9′s write up here.
The full ARXIV.org paper can be found here.