The Physics Detective Part Six — Dubois Spills the Beans It was looking like a nondescript installment of The Physics Detective until Dubois — out of nowhere — dropped a bombshell. From the intercepted quantum email: I think you sho[…]
The Physics Detective Part Five — All Eyes on Pruszczyncki Part five already, wow, unbelievable, how time flies, what drama, what action!!! (it’s hard enough trying to sell this story to the science folk I work with, so I’m overdo[…]
The Physics Detective Part Four — Lorimer the Louse “But at least he finished his referee’s report before he died” … !!! Pretty much a transition episode this week, since nobody’s buying Lorimer as a serious susp[…]
The Physics Detective Part Three — Baumgarden Under the Gun I believe Baumgarden’s story. He seems like the “smoke pot on weekends and sip scotch during late nights at the office” type, not the “I carry grudges against e[…]
The Big Bang and How We Came To Know It. The newest book by Simon Singh, simply entitled “Big Bang”, has garnered many fantastic reviews (for example, Scientific American, Toronto Globe and Mail, Guardian). I haven’t seen it yet, b[…]
The Physics Detective Part Two — The Investigation Begins This week’s installation was about 100 times funnier than last week’s. As a result, I now have the enthusiasm and motivation to see this story through to the end — and […]
The Physics Detective Whodunnit? The disgraced former Chinese doctoral student? The fiery Polish research competitor? The smooth, sly French professor? The disgruntled American technician, tired of seeing his boss steal his due credit after years[…]
Einstein Year — The Celebration Continues. Nature has prepared an feature on four young theorists as a tie-in to the Einstein Year hoopla (no subscription required to read the article). Each featured scientist is under 35. All of these rese[…]
The new face of Creationism. CNN ran a story yesterday on the Intelligent Design Network’s proposed revisions to the science standards set by the Kansas School Board. It should come as a surprise to no one that this is happening in Kansas, […]
Good news for all you lefthanders out there. If widespread hand-to-hand combat breaks out in your society, you’re likely to flourish! The side effects include reduced lifespan, low birthweight and increased incidence of immune and nervous disor[…]