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Sunday, February 03, 2019

Pseudoscience, physics, and what matters

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Science at its best is gloriously counter-intuitive, resolutely anti-tribalist, splendidly oblivious to our opinions and our allegiances. I...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Years of Living Dangerously

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This guy directed the two most successful films in the history of the world. Now he's made it clear that the biggest story of our time i...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Ice Loss in the Arctic

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I've been waiting for the Piomas data on Arctic ice volume for September to appear here so that I could draw a graph. It appeared to...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Quantum Mechanics In Your Face

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I love the mysteries of nature. But what I love even more is when something that may appear mysterious, and is frequently misrepresented and...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Dark Energy - the basics

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The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded yesterday for the discovery of dark energy in 1998. What is dark energy? Do we really need to just ...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Census of the Dead as the Living Reach 7 Billion

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A question for Hallowe'en. For each person alive on Earth, how many ghosts are there? And what are they like? If you want to skip the nu...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

Neptune Completes First Orbit Since Discovery: 11th July 2011 (at 21:48 U.T.±15min)

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Happy anniversary, Neptune! According to those tables of numbers you get in books about the Solar System, the planet Neptune takes 164.79 ye...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Arne Naess and the Call of the Mountain

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In the last twelve months, this blog strayed somewhat from its tagline and became a vehicle for exposing the pseudoscience of some Hawaiian ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

British Birdlists

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Today I finished off two neat little bird lists. If you click on either the images below, you can grab yourself a copy. The first is a strai...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

Rugbinatorics

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The Six Nations Championship started today. I tried to watch the first game, but got distracted by the pretty numbers. The scoring possibi...
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