Arctic Ice September 2010 - Update #1

Arctic Ice September 2010 - Update #1

Arctic Ice September 2010 - Update #1 This is my first update to Arctic Ice September 2010. As the Arctic melt season draws to a close there are still a very few people writing about recovery. …
Hilarious Putnam, please shut up

Hilarious Putnam, please shut up

Bruno Latour (*1947) is a social constructionist or constructivist. If you know the difference, it is a sign indicating that you have wasted time studying useless stuff. Around 2004, he finally got…
How Hard Science Saves Lives

How Hard Science Saves Lives

The debate on hard and soft science seems to still be on – also here on Science2.0. As a representative of several hard sciences (mathematics, physics, theoretical astrophysics, geodesy...) I have…
Health care  in East and West. .

Health care in East and West. .

Human body has 10 raise to the power 13 cells and it has 10 raise to the power 14 microbes in it if I have heard the lecture correctly delivered in a seminar abroad. Microbes have different…
The Space-Plunger

The Space-Plunger

Sean Carroll writes that in GR “spacetime can give energy to matter, or absorb it from matter, so that the total energy simply isn’t conserved”. He hopefully means “space” not “space-time”, because…
Health care systems and society East vs West.

Health care systems and society East vs West.

I had a chance to pass on the road in front of hospital in West recently. I never had a chance to enter hospital from inside there. I remembered the poem of Ernest Hemmingway “East is East and West…
Stop those boneheaded Facebook comments - CNN

Stop those boneheaded Facebook comments - CNN

Some Facebook tips from CNN guest columnists Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich, Ehrlich being editor at Mashable.com and Bartz editor at PsychologyToday.com: Facebook gets a lot of attention for being…
Stop those boneheaded Facebook comments - CNN

Stop those boneheaded Facebook comments - CNN

Some Facebook tips from CNN guest columnists Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich, Ehrlich being editor at Mashable.com and Bartz editor at PsychologyToday.com: Facebook gets a lot of attention for being…