Happy New Year!
I heard that Killing The Internet is a Thing, and apparently keeping more than a few hundred tabs open in Firefox will do the trick, so I'm doing some blog dumps to get the year kicked off:
Quanta Magazine is an (editorially independent) publication of the Simons Foundation which has been doing some interesting science journalism, beyond the usual channeling or press releases and artificial dichotomy that plagues much of the media:
- These are some of the stories they ran that caught my attention:
- Seeing Cats and Cosmos
- Why RNA is Right Handed
- A New Physics Theory of Life
- Fluid Tests Hint At Concrete Quantum Reality
- Physicists Prove Surprising Rulte of Threes
- Betting on the Future of Quantum Gravity
In practise this is a not-so-private bookmark list, but in case anyone is interested, this is mostly recommended reading.
PS: Helen & David - we lost your address! Pls email or put return address on next card! Still in Essex?
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ScienceDaily has a report on a presentation Mark Shriver gave at AAAS meething this year:
Yesterday in my conversation with David Miller I told him I didn't think that the new autosomal "ancestry" tests really delivered the
I finally got around to visiting freerice.com, a vocabulary game that lets you "win" donations of rice for needy countries.
I know that most of the kooks can't abide the theory of evolution, and I can understand their motives a little bit — it directly contradicts common beliefs about who they are.