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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...
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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...
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They are already here, they are amidst us, they zip through our heads affecting LHC funding, they come from future and cunningly prevent their production at LHC by affecting the present. Meet Bosons from the future. So, this in short,...
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The nifty Dyson's Air Multiplier. Air multiplier, molecule mover......
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Let's see if we can figure this out from first principles. Limiting ourselves to biological evolution, evolution needs a few things to work in practice:- -a mechanism of inheritance. Genes in our case. Consider stones. Stones don't have genes. Stones...
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Loads of them reports the Beebs. Quite a remarkable find and it seems already some information has been gleaned of their past. "The leader of the team, MU Ramkumar, told the BBC the finding is significant and could help to...
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via BBC. Norman Borlaug is the Father of Green Revolution whose research has saved many many millions from starvation. To me, he defines effective compassion like no other. It is a shame his work is not as well known...
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Paul Krugman on How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? in today's NY Times. India's Moon Mission is over, somewhat prematurely--on 28 August, after nearly 10 months in moon orbit, Chandrayan-I stopped talking and ISRO had to declare the mission...
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A very limited list of things that nobody knows (as compiled by yours truly, a very limited human). As you may notice, most of the list treads close to things that may be broadly classed as epistemological questions. Do extend...
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You'll be docile when horizontal, apparently. So an insult won't move you to action that much when you are lying down. via NewScientist....
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