Review: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog

Source: Wired

In his first book Chad Orzel put quantum mechanics into terms even a German Shepherd mix (or English major) could understand by means of a dialectic with his pet Queen Emmy, whose interests run from chasing rabbits to virtual ...
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I’ve got your missing links right here (26 May 2012) | Not Exactly Rocket Science

Source: Discover Magazine

Top picks This is beautiful. Alexis Madrigal watches an eclipse by turning his fist into a pinhole camera, entrances passers-by Must-read piece on the NSABB – the board that assessed the risk of those mutant flu papers – by Brendan Maher ...
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Who or What Is God?

Source: The Huffington Post

"The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion, as well as, all serious endeavour. He who never had this experience, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that b ...
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Quantum Mechanics When You Close Your Eyes | Cosmic Variance

Source: Discover Magazine

Here’s a fun thing that has been zipping around the internets this week: a collection of “back of the envelope problems” put together by Edward Purcell. Hours of fun reading if you’re the kind of person who likes to spen ...
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The German ideology

Source: Le Monde Diplo

The election of Francois Hollande signaled a major change in the dynamics of Europe. As the countries of the Eurozone continue to confront their “sovereign debt crisis”, a subset of the financial crisis enveloping the ...
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It has nothing to do with religion at all.It has e...

Source: Sandwalk

Casey Luskin recently offered advice on the The Top Three Flaws in Darwinian Evolution. [see The Top Three Flaws In Evolutionary Theory ] At the end of that post he referred readers to The College Student's Back-to-School Guide to Intel ...
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Cosmic harmonies: Fellows Friday with Bilge Demirkoz

Source: TED

CERN particle physicist Bilge Demirköz investigates everything from dark matter to the possibility of antigalaxies, trying to understand what we — and the universe — are made of. What is it about space and the investigation of dark matter and antimatter ...
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Back in Black: 'Men In Black 3' Director Talks Sci-Fi & Space Travel

Source: Space.com

Tommy Lee Jones (left) and Will Smith star in Columbia Pictures' Men in Black 3. Agent J (Smith) drops back into 1969 so he can stop evil space alien Boris (Jemaine Clement) from changing history and slaying a younger version of Age ...
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Is a classical electrodynamics law incompatible with special relativity?

Source: PhysOrg.com

However, Mansuripur’s bold claim of a paradox with the Lorentz law has generated some intense criticism. One critic, Daniel Vanzella, a physics professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Carlos, Brazil, has submit ...
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