[note: this blog, as written is insufficient. I will need to provide an action to clarify the nature of the proposal.] The Spoon and the Moon Give a baby a spoon, and the little one is likely to…

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"The senior signs the paper, the post-doc thinks, and the grad student executes" F.S., explaining how the typical nucleus of analysis group in HEP works.

Given the flakiness and rush of shipping at this time of year, if you intend to order something online, you really need to do it today. Sure, you can take a flyer on next week but if you have Amazon…

About ten years ago, what is now the Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the University of Reading, was set up, to take over from individual EM units in other departments by purchasing more modern…

Kudos to Thames and Kosmos for getting their chemistry sets on the shelves at Barnes and Noble. They have these three introductory sets in the store: the “Dangerous Book for Boys Classic Chemistry…

In his examination of health care globalization, Going Global in Century XXI: Medical Anthropology and the New Primary Health Care (2004), Craig Janes addresses the problem of a lack of innovative…

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Strikingly Truewww.ripleybooks.com/newsroom Time For Kids Big Book Of Science Experiments (even a nifty 'Family Tree' chart on the last page, after the index, with…

This is an interesting question I was asked recently on the space show. It's inspired by this 5 note theme from the 1970s movie. (if you don't see videos in this page, try reloading it). It's…

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/30/vancouver-health-body-begins-fr… http://ca.news.yahoo.com/deeply-concerned-mutated-birdflu-research-1215… http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2011/12/09/UNL…

Whether human beings and extraterrestrials could communicate with each other using music. This is a question I was asked on the space show. It was inspired by the 1970s movie with this theme tune: 5…

"During the years 1962 to 1964 a debate developed about whether the Goldstone theorem could be evaded. Anderson pointed out that in a superconductor the Goldstone mode becomes a massive plasmon mode…

A couple of days ago, I read this on Real Clear Science: Why Spelling Tests Don’t Help Kids Spell by Misty Adoniou I highly recommend this short article, but I would like to pick out one sentence:…

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/103086/scientism-huma... http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-03/science-mat… http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2012/06…

Inspired by my friend Peter Woit's openness in discussing his work in progress (a thick textbook on the foundations of quantum mechanics), I feel compelled to come out here about my own project. I…

I'm speaking of bare particles. "Heroes" is maybe too pathetic, but blocks or "bricks" would be OK since everything is made of them despite their being non-observable. Why are they non-observable?…

“How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown” by Edward Shorter. Oxford. $29.95, 272 pages. Publication date March 7. The author is a professor in the history of…

We've highlighted in the past some interesting activity from DARPA (read more via Neuron News from Dynamic Patterns Research) with its involvement in neurological research and…

Just a quick link to allow you to browse a very nice set of pictures taken at CERN by Andri Pol. The subjects are physicists in their daily activities - brainstorming at the blackboard, cycling…

"We haven't the foggiest idea what drives the new high-temperature superconductors, or what makes a snowflake, or how the mind or the economy works. What is more, nothing high energy physics can do…