Great post from Cosmic Variance, What I Believe But Cannot Prove. Although his post may be a little late it is necessarily interesting.
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I haven’t read this one yet but I plan on it.
Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan Wilson
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So the Australian states want to do something about limiting the damage from pollution and the Prime Minister wants to spend money on how to live with climate change. If only our president would even acknowledge that global warming exists.
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Now what are the chances that one of the handful of extrasolar planets that we know of has water on it? Maybe that bodes well for the abundance of life in the near universe.
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I’m all for removing religion from government but I think this one might be a bit far fetched, More Problems with Crosses.
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Yes I think I just made up the word nanofied but either way here’s a cool article, Nanoscale ‘Trees’ …, on the possibility of using nanotechnologies increase the efficiency of solar cells
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Oh now this is cool, I think the kiddies are going to get a kick out of this one. Have you ever wanted to experiment with quantum mechanics at home but found building a supercollider a bit pricey. Check out this article, Quantum Erasing in the Home, on SciAm as we all as this follow-up [...]
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Very cool results coming from the Gravity Probe - B, including additional confirmation and more precise measurements of gravity’s spacetime-bending effects
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News story on NewScientist, Huge fossilised rainforest found in coal mine. I have one problem and one concern about this article. The problem I have is that the article credits “researchers” as having discovered this rainforest on the ceiling of a coal mine. Seems to me that maybe a miner is the one who found [...]
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Interesting post, The Idiocy of Blaming Science for the Virginia Tech Killings, on SciAm about the causes of the Virginia Tech killings. Here’s Orac’s post on ScienceBlog
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