Most of us seek out like-minded individuals who will reinforce our worldview. As I remind my students, we hold no beliefs we think are incorrect. After all, if we thought we were wrong, we wouldn't…

WTF. A pleasant, unexpected surprise awaited me in the CMS Times, the online periodical which reports on the status of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the research activities, the…

The fact that I am swamped by the too many activities I am involved in these days can be gauged by things like the following: I get to know about important new physics results coming from an…

I’ve now watched the second of three films in the series.  To recap, the main title is: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the…

The Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's flagship, is believed to have run aground in the shallow waters off Beaufort, North Carolina in 1718. The ship was discovered in 1996, with recovery of…

The Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's flagship, is believed to have run aground in the shallow waters off Beaufort, North Carolina in 1718. The ship was discovered in 1996, with recovery of…

In later posts, I want to critique Joy Christian's claim that his counter-example to Bell'sTheorem is “real” (maybe it is, but I suspect not, and will work that out later), but first we have to…

The video “Why Quantum Mechanics is Weird” (25k views) won the 2005 Berkeley Video&Film Festival Best of Festival Award in Education. That is second place, behind a Grand Festival Award which…

Why does local realism being wrong imply that non-local reality is true? Such is widely opined to be the only sober solution because it conserves good old reality, the scientists’ fort that is to be…

A new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS).  Researchers studied two groups of women nurses from the Nurses' Health Study.…

There is water inside the moon.  A lot, it turns out, according to the first measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions, which show that some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as…

Contrary to what you might think by the name, Greenland is rather frigid and Iceland is often quite nice.    Nice for Vikings, anyway.  But for a time Greenland became so miserable…

Henry Ford - Quote: "History Is Bunk" It isn't an urban myth: Henry Ford really did say: "History is bunk." It is somewhat ironic that Henry Ford's words - "history is bunk" - are now a part of the…

A recent Gallup Poll using results from January 2010 to April 2011 showed that military veterans and servicemen and women on active duty give President Barack Obama lower approval numbers than does…

A recent Gallup Poll using results from January 2010 to April 2011 showed that military veterans and servicemen and women on active duty give President Barack Obama lower approval numbers than does…

Last winter I noticed a few ants wandering around the bathroom. I suppose most folks would run for some bug spray or call the exterminator, but not me – I went to buy more film for my camera!! I…

Ayurveda, the most ancient and important system of medicine in India,  is important to modern natural medicine proponents(1) because it regards preserving health and curing diseases as…

The Big Bang Theory is a great show for promoting both science and acceptance. It's a favorite show in our household, and all three of my children, who are at various spots on the autism spectrum,…

Let us try to model the experiment described in “Disproving Local Realism” with help of tennis balls. 800 pairs of tennis balls are each prepared, say some instructions are written on them, and then…

Global climate change has stimulated efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Photosynthetic organisms use solar energy to generate reducing equivalents and incorporate atmospheric CO2 into organic molecules…