About a month ago I held a three-hour course on "Statistics for Data Analysis in High-Energy Physics" in the nice setting of Engelberg, a mountain location just south of Zurich. Putting together the 130 slides of that seminar was a lot of work and not little fun; in the process I was able to collect some "simple">
I got many comments on last week's Nibiru article from some very scared people. They needed a lot of reassuring that it was indeed a hoax and not real, and brought up many topics to discuss such as lens flares, hoaxes, double sun videos, rare sun mirages, and the status of the astronomical search for various versions>
Today, the best way to prevent malaria remains DDT. Though banned in the US by a politician over the objections of scientists, it is still recommended by the United Nations for use where malaria has not been wiped out. Our FDA even wrote the book on how to spray it in homes.Despite 70 years of effort, viable affordable>
A gravity model of the Earth constructed with data from GRACE. Credit: University of Texas Center for Space Research and NASAIt is all about gravity these days. First came GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) and then we'll have GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer). I'll reveal>
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the 1871 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the title character finds a mirror that behaves in a surprising and unexpected way. Now bizarre mirrors have become a reality.
In an Optica report, scientists have demonstrated>
"Scaling factors" for quark masses etc in that paper are due to the running of the coupling, i.e. top quark is formed at a higher energy so you have to us a different value of the...
I've also just started using AI to help do calculations, predicting particle masses from the energy absorbed by virtual particles undergoing vacuum polarization shielding. The most surprising...
Stop domestic feed in tariffs and encourage domestic batteries. At grid scale, only purchase renewable electricity on the basis of continuous generation. This would force energy suppliers to build...
My children who are half-Asian both checked white on the college apps. My daughter who did almost everything perfect, 1570 SAT, 36 ACT, valedictorian of her very competitive international school,...