HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): American Physics Dreams Deferred. “F…

Source: Instapundit

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): American Physics Dreams Deferred. “For Dr. Riess and his colleagues, this turn of events is another example of a worrying trend in which American scientists, facing bu ...
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Physics to the Dogs: A Lost Decade for U.S. Scientists?

Source: Big Think

A Chinese flag, not an American one, will be planted in the lunar dust when the next manned mission to the moon occurs some time around 2025. Scientific teams in Europe, not the U.S., are poised to discover the Higgs boson. Indeed, the U.S. has los ...
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Relativistic kinematics for musicians | Lily Asquith | Life & Physics

Source: Guardian Unlimited

A couple of years ago I became involved in a grand plan to make sounds out of LHC data. We called this project LHCsound. Recently we have revisited the idea with the aim of listening to real data produced in the p ...
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Western Morning News published Space tourism? Not very environmentally-friendly

Source: Western Morning News

Airborne pollution and the curse of sodium lighting has robbed many of the pleasure, but there are still large parts of the South West where, weather permitting, you can get out at night, gaze up and marvel at the stars. Wrapped in a ...
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STRINGS 2012

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Hundreds of string theorists meet each year to discuss their research at an international conference. STRINGS 2012 takes place in Munich, and is organized jointly by LMU Munich, the Max-Planck Institute for Physics, the Arnold Somm ...
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American Scientists Fear Losing Edge in Physics

Source: The New York Times

When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year , for discovering that the expansion of the universe was speeding up in defiance of cosmic gravity — as if change fell out of your pockets onto the ceili ...
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Divine calling

Source: The Sun Daily Malaysia

THERE comes a time in every person’s life when they feel they are receiving a clear message from God/the universe/destiny/the voice in their head. By “every person” I am of course referring to myself and the (let’s be honest) fairly bizar ...
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CERN automates application development with Electric Cloud

Source: ITWorld.com

May 20, 2012, 7:08 AM — The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is using automation technology from Electric Cloud to accelerate the application development efforts of more than 10,000 users of i ...
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How Reliable Are the Social Sciences?

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Public policy debates often involve appeals to results of work in social sciences like economics and sociology. For example, in his State of the Union address this year, President Obama cited a recent high-profile study to ...
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