J.R. van Meter
Ph.D. in physics.
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Gravitational Wave Detection Using A Circular Particle Accelerator.
Gravitational waves and particle physics experiments being mixed is something I have theorized about for a couple of years (1). Now a new…
Selfie Righteous: New Tool Corrects Angles And Distances In Portraits
Ever taken a selfie? Around the world, people snap tens of millions of these self-portraits every day, usually with a mobile device held at arm's length. For all their raging popularity, though,…
Eggonomics: White Egg Donors Get Paid More, Is That Eugenics Or Just Demand?
There are about 3X as many white women as black in the US but white women get 8X as much for donated eggs and Diane M. Tober in "Eggonomics" suggests wealthy people looking for specific traits has…
The Amazon Fire This And Next Time
Not so long ago it was thought that Amazonian forests and other tropical rainforest regions were completely immune to fires, thanks to the high moisture content of the undergrowth beneath the…