Category Archives: Science!

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Posted on July 2, 2012 by alan

They’re almost certain they’ve found the Higgs boson. Reminds me of the story of the three blind men and the elephant.

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Nerd Alert: Quantum Geekery Ahead

Posted on May 9, 2012 by alan

The famous double slit experiment has been recreated using large molecules. So it’s not just a subatomic thing. Thomas Juffmann et al. fired molecules composed of over 100 atoms at a barrier with openings designed to minimize molecular interactions, and … Continue reading →

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Report from Lala land

Posted on April 30, 2012 by alan

The 2012 peace index is out. All you need to know about it is here: “The USPI is the first national peace index produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. Similar in concept to the Global Peace Index (GPI), … Continue reading →

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OMFG COOL: Quantum Locking

Posted on October 19, 2011 by alan
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Relativity Safe After All

Posted on October 16, 2011 by alan

And the missing 60 nanoseconds reinforce relativity instead of disproving it. It turns out the GPS satellites are in a separate reference frame from the experiment and once you account for the effects of relativity between the frames, the difference … Continue reading →

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Your “OMFG WOW!” of the day

Posted on September 23, 2011 by alan

“The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s … Continue reading →

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ZOMG! Cell Phones Don’t Cause Cancer!

Posted on July 4, 2011 by alan

“…no convincing evidence of any cancer connection.” Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday. … Continue reading →

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Curves

Posted on May 2, 2011 by alan

Whether it’s radioactive half-life or an Instalanche, the curve looks the same. Math is awesome. Too bad public schools do their best to ruin it.

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Hammer and Feather

Posted on March 22, 2011 by alan

One of my favorite videos from the Apollo days.

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Is The Science Settled?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by alan

I found this great post via Neatorama. What you thought you knew about Dinosaurs is probably wrong. Next time someone tries to tell you the science is settled you can laugh in their face. Science is never settled.

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