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• Urban Physics Myths

  
  Backreaction — Authority: 530
  Stefan and I, we had a good laugh at the LHC baguette . Ive been wondering whether the PR department made it up to entertain us while waiting. For the next filler, how about the technician who hung his coat on the regulator for the server-room AC and caused a total system breakdown? The baguette also brought to ...
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• Fermi: lightnings produce positrons

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 568
  The Fermi telescope, formerly known as GLAST, is on the roll. After having proven that the proponents of all Lorentz-violating theories are cranks , after having told astrophysicists a lot of details about the gamma ray bursts (GRBs), and after having provided us with some new hints that new physics could be ...
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• Biocentrism, vs the global ‘gaian’ matrix of the eonic effect

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 154
  The previous post on biocentrism noted the way this idea points beyond reductionism. A look at the eonic effect shows that life is deeper than physics, and, indeed, we have to suspect that life emerges in the context of a global medium: A Gaian Matrix
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• Israel Gelfand obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Legendary mathematician whose work on integral geometry was vital to medical scanners Israel Gelfand, who has died aged 96, was a major figure in mathematics for seven decades. His research ranged over most of pure maths, including algebra, analysis, and geometry. He also worked in mathematical biology, opening up ...
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• Why Physicists Like Ratios

  
  dorigo's blog — Authority: 509
  A good part of basic research in fundamental physics focuses on the definition, the prediction, and the measurement of quantities which put the current theory -the standard model- to the test in the most stringent way possible. The choice of the quantities on which to base our comparisons between theory prediction and ...
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• What it really takes to emancipate a planet from the fetters of industrial enslavement

  
  Thomas Paine's Corner — Authority: 126
  Clarifying Any Loose Ends: Addressing the total implications latent in my polemic on carrying capacity through a response to an unwittingly myopic critic, viz. what it really takes to emancipate a planet from the fetters of industrial enslavement. By Frank Joseph Smecker 10/21/09 (This exchange relates to ...
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• Everybody Loves A Big Ol Piece O Pie

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 137
  "Fox has stolen the crown. Even people who hate Fox now find themselves forced to react to it. Politicos and pundits who want to reach half of the cable news audience have to show up on Fox. Other news organizations are forced to cover the same stories as Fox just to remain relevant. I don’t watch TV news in ...
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• Twin Sector

  
  PalDDL? — Authority: 177
  Twin Sector The story of Twin Sector takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where the remains of mankind have been put to artificial sleep in cryogenic chambers deep under the contaminated surface of earth — until the planet becomes habitable again. You as the player must take the role of Ashley ...
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• Nuclear-power fuel too close to nuclear-weapon fuel for comfort

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 589
  THE DEPROLIFERATOR — Recent statements by its chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency suggest that Iran may be backing away from an agreement to ships it low-enriched nuclear fuel to Russia for further enriching. Even, though, after agreeing to the deal, President Ahmadinejad, ever the ...
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• An MIT PhD Takes On Rob Balsamo

  
  Screw Loose Change — Authority: 131
  I confess that I cant follow the math, but Im going to link this debunking of Balsamos claim that the g-forces required of AA-77 given the flight path are too high for the plane to withstand for those who can. Balsamo came up with a radius of 2085 feet, which is less than 10% of the radius I calculated for a ...
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• Nuclear-Power Fuel Too Close to Nuclear-Weapon Fuel for Comfort

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 568
  THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- Recent statements by its chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency suggest that Iran may be backing away from an agreement to ships it low-enriched nuclear fuel to Russia for further enriching. Even, though, after agreeing to the deal, President Ahmadinejad, ever the master ...
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• Shout To The Top

  
  neil storey @ storeys — Authority:
  The room is stark… not Phillipe Starck but just downright plain; unadorned ordinary with cold (not chilled) white-washed walls unencumbered by pictures or, indeed, imagery of any kind. There are two windows but only one will open to little more than a crack; the air inside smells suspiciously of cleaning fluids. ...
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• News, Notes and Dusty Bottle Items – Club Paradox Edition

  
  Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto — Authority: 120
  Odds and ends from a life lived through the prism of the wine glass … The Wine Success Paradox My wife and I get together with a few other couples once a month to drink wine.  It’s good, clean fun with each of us taking monthly turns hosting and selecting the monthly theme for our “wine club.”   Every ...
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• Nothing But Net: The Physics Of Basketball Free Throws

  
  My Green Meadows — Authority: 141
  Nothing But Net: The Physics Of Basketball Free Throws .   To get a swish rather than a brick, you need the best possible conditions for releasing the basketball from your hand. (Credit: iStockphoto/Bill Grove)   The Physics Of Basketball Free Throws Two North Carolina State University engineers ...
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• Einstein on Galileo’s contribution

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 491
  Some religious apologists just can’t leave Galileo alone. They are unhappy about the fact that most people accept that the Church behaved badly in sentencing Galileo for heresy. (He got house arrest for the rest of his life and bans on his books, one of which was suppressed for 200 years). So in a manner which ...
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• David Snoke: Creationist Physicist?

  
  The Sensuous Curmudgeon — Authority: 478
  TODAY we encountered a genuine curiosity. We learned of it in the Ironton Tribune , a daily newspaper in Ironton, Ohio, population almost 12,000, which is across the Ohio River from the bordering states of West Virginia and Kentucky. The article is titled: Scientist to speak on Biblical interpretations at SSU . ...
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• Madballs in Babo Invasion (PC) Review

  
  Brutal Gamer — Authority: 514
  I wonder how that press conference must have gone. “I have a GREAT idea for a video game! Let’s make it about a bunch of balls. They are at war, see, and have all kinds of guns and stuff and roll around and fight each other!” “But sir, we just bought an over 20 year old licence about balls without guns! We ...
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• Quick Look: Fore! by Cobra Mobile

  
  RazorianFly — Authority: 117
  Brought to You By Guest Contributor Kevin If there’s one thing that the App Store isn’t overflowing with, it’s good golf games. Sure, you’ve got Tiger Woods, various minigolf games, and my personal favorite, Let’s Golf, but Fore is something different. Fore is a top-down golf (not mini golf) game ...
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• Photojournalism from Sergey Maximishin

  
  PhotoSlaves — Authority: 118
  Sergey Maximishin was born in 1964. Spent his childhood in Kerch, the Crimea (Ukraine). Moved to Leningrad in 1982. Served in the Soviet army as a photographer the Soviet Military Force Group on Cuba from 1985 to 1987. Graduated from Leningrad Politechnical Inctitute in 1991 with a B.A. in physics. Worked in the ...
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• Initial coordinators in technical, academic, and formal writing

  
  Language Log — Authority: 651
  Yesterday, I quoted someone writing on the nanowrimo forum (" Also, check the back seat ", 11/7/2009), who offered an apparently irrefutable argument in favor of "No Initial Coordinators" (NIC), the zombie rule that forbids us to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as and or but : [Usage standards and ...
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