Category Archives for Science
Marie Curie: Why her papers are still radioactive
Many library collections use special equipment, such as special gloves and climate-controlled rooms, to protect the archival materials from the visitor. For the Pierre and Marie Curie collection at France’s Bibliotheque National, it’s the other way around. That’s because after … Continue reading
Salt
Here’s a couple interesting articles about the dangers of too much salt in the diet. More writing on this to follow: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41255521/ns/health-heart_health/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41318009/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/
Prank Research Papers
Sometimes jargon really is gibberish. Take the “scientific” papers generated by a computer program and submitted by three MIT computer science students to a scientific conference. One of the papers, “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points … Continue reading
IBM Research and MRFM
IBM scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging MRI with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. … For more than a decade, IBM scientists have … Continue reading
Our world may be a giant hologram
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise … Continue reading
Obama’s Tax Increase
Senator Obama’s proposed “tax cuts for the middle class” are actually marginal rate hikes in disguise. It’s pretty simple. If you have an adjusted gross income of between $85,000 and $100,000 or so, Obama won’t raise your marginal tax rates. … Continue reading
Phoenix Mars Lander
Today I watched the live feed from NASA of the exciting successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander. Since the people at NASA, JPL, etc made it look easy, it’s even more impressive considering that only half of the attempts … Continue reading
Shockwave traffic jam
Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a test-track for the first time. … Continue reading
Esthesioneuroblastoma
So Google Web History has a feature called Interesting Items. Google saves your search history (only when logged into your Gmail/Google account) and then analyzes it to determine the “recent top queries related to your searches.” I must have been … Continue reading
Homeopathy – Quackery Or A Key To The Future of Medicine?
Remember my post entitled “Diluting medicine: Homeopathy“? In it I linked to a number of videos refuting the practice of homeopathy. A few days ago I found a 2-hour video of a debate held at the University of Connecticut School … Continue reading