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[…]

PUB SCIENCE
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Let’s see if our brains still work
Myself and Alan were in the pub last night reading the paper, and we started to panic about our brains. Possibly something you do when downing intoxicants, how much of our brains which the gover[…]

The first series of Look Around You was a pastiche of a certain type of School’s science TV from the late seventies. It was short, sweet and really rather funny. The new series has been stretched to half an hour, is now more of a parody of earl[…]

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[…]

PR Nightmare:
Scientists find tumour-causing gene – hurrah!
Scientists give tumour-causing gene lawsuit-causing name – pika! pika![…]

APPLYING OCCAM’S RAZOR — Part 2 of 2
(The first part of this post can be found at the Brown Wedge.)
While Martin Gardner’s book on Urantia’s crazy-quilt scheme of science (fiction) Christianity was a flawed mess, the impulse t[…]

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 […]

My brother and I went to this event at the Royal Society last night, because we had both read Diamond’s previous book Guns, Germs and Steel, and enjoyed it (although neither of us finished it, but hey). The lecture was introduced by the Preside[…]

SUBMISSION FOR PBS SIDEBAR LINK STATUS?
www.dinosaurnews.org is vouched for by dunedin’s leading dino-portraitist, plus also as well has LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT DINOSAURS (and the words “jollyroger” in its subsidiary URLs!)[…]

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[…]