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• November 8, 2009

• The Scientific Indian

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  Entangled Reality Read an interesting interview with Roger Penrose at Discover Magazine. Found this part fascinating: So Schrödinger himself never believed that the cat analogy reflected the nature of reality? Oh yes, I think he was pointing this out. I mean, look...

• November 7, 2009

• The Questionable Authority

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  Quote of the Day - 7 Nov 2009 The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction...

• Uncertain Principles

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  Great Moments in Targeted Advertising We subscribe to Locus, the SF review and news magazine, and every month when it arrives, I flip through it quickly to look at the ads. This is a useful guide to what's coming out from various publishers, but it's...

• The Scientific Indian

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  A matter of Life and er... Matter As I was stuffing my face today, I wondered if the Universe cared. The short answer is no. The slightly longer and more depressing answer is: my existence is more marginal than a speck of stray DNA on a grain...

• November 6, 2009

• EvolutionBlog

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  Check Out Amazon's List of the Year's Best Science Books Seriously! Go have a look. It seems my book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser made the list! And to think I wasn't planning to do a blog post today. Browsing through the other...

• Adventures in Ethics and Science

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  Friday Sprog Blogging: checking in on last week's experiments. A bit of follow-up on the two experiments we described last week: First off, the water cycle model....

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Iraq Army uses magic wands to detect bombs ... instead of physical inspections Some of the Iraqis are kinda pissed off because some of the magic wands have been purchaced for $60,000 while equally effective magic wands were available for cloer to $18,000.

• Built on Facts

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  Cars and Crashing Here's a question which pretty much everyone gets wrong. But the readers of this blog aren't just a random sample, so I bet most of you will get it right: Two identical vehicles A and B, both traveling at speed...

• The Quantum Pontiff

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  A Tactic Named Sue A puppet commenter informs me that El Naschie is suing Nature. El Naschie, you may remember, was the journal editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals who was accused of not reviewing his own papers in the journal. To be expected,...

• Starts With A Bang

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  It isn't obvious... It's hard to believe that until 1929, we were pretty sure that the Universe consisted entirely of our galaxy, and everything else was inside of us. Hard to believe that you can look at something like this and not think...

• Eruptions

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  On the media (or press) Science used to be fascinating to the general public ... where did we go wrong and how do we fix it?

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...

• Uncertain Principles

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  Poll: The Computers of the Future Today's Quantum Optics lecture is about quantum computing experiments, and how different types of systems stack up. Quantum computing, as you probably know if you're reading this blog, is based on building a computer whose "bits" can not only take...

• Eruptions

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  New eruption overnight at Piton de la Fournaise Piton de la Fournaise put on a brief show last night, producing two lava flows after a small earthquake hit the volcano earlier in the day.

• Highly Allochthonous

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  Earthquakes within plates: we don't know when, and we may not know where For intracontinental earthquakes, the seismic past and present may not help when predicting future hazards

• November 5, 2009

• Starts With A Bang

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  Dark Energy: Gaining a Foothold (Part 2) Last time, we talked about the discovery of dark energy. How did it happen? Well, there are certain kinds of Supernovae, type Ia supernovae, that are practically identical to one another all across the Universe. In fact, we had one...

• Dynamics of Cats

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  Diamond Encrusted Dragon's Egg A long time ago, a massive star about 10,000 light years from Earth went kaboom. 329 years ago, we think, in 1680, the light from the supernova explosion reached Earth and was recorded as a new star by the Flamsteed,...

• bioephemera

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  Magnetic Movie wins "most accurate" award at ISF Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo. Last week, at the imagine science film festival in New York, Magnetic Movie won the Nature Scientific Merit Award: In 2009, the Nature Scientific Merit Award went to the film judged to be not...

• Eruptions

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  SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 10/28-11/3/2009 New images of Kilauea from space, Soufriere Hills' pyroclastic flows and lahars and things settling down at Anak Krakatau, all in this week's USGS/SI volcano update.

• The World's Fair

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  If scientists were to write the music reviews (Vampire Weekend case study) Science Scout Twitter Feed Well, actually, mathematicians - but it would probably go like this: CD Title: Inverse: (Special limited edition release) (2009) Artist: VAMPIRE WEEKEND Rating: 2.718 stars (out of 5) - - - The rating stands. (Spoiler...

• Good Math, Bad Math

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  Orbits, Periodic Orbits, and Dense Orbits - Oh My! Another one of the fundamental properties of a chaotic system is dense periodic orbits. It's a bit of an odd one: a chaotic system doesn't have to have periodic orbits at all. But if it does, then they have...

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  Science Cafe Raleigh: Boom 'n' Doom: Volcanoes, North Carolina and North Carolina Volcanoes Boom 'n' Doom: Volcanoes, North Carolina and North Carolina Volcanoes November 18th; Acro Café on the fourth floor of the Museum of Natural Sciences 8:30-10:00 am with discussion beginning at 9:00 followed by Q&A Volcanic activity half a world away...

• Eruptions

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  The rifting of Africa Africa is breaking up! Alright, its not new news, but you'd think we had no idea if you read all the media lately.

• Uncertain Principles

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  Beyond Rocket Science It's not getting as much press as the "X Prize" for private rocket launches, but NASA has quietly been running a contest for work toward a "space elevator," offering up to $2 million for a scheme to transmit power to...

• November 4, 2009

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  The Making Of: "Colliding Galaxies Explained" Starring Felicia Day (This is really funny)... Hat tip: Geeks are sexy....

Hurricanes

As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.

The Island of DoubtJuly 25, 2006

The real story of the hurricanes

Neuron Culture September 11, 2008

Hurricanes & Climate Change: A Round-Up Says Maybe More, Definitely Hotter

Corpus Callosum September 12, 2008

What Ike Really Means; Introducing Integrated Kinetic Energy