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"Theories put forward so far suggest that this "ball lightning" is either a moving electrical discharge or that it is some kind of self-contained object. Now, research from an Israeli group is making the latter seem more likely. "
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"The tournament doesn't begin until Friday, March 7--we'll announce the judges and brackets a week or so before that--but we like to release the book list early so the audience can start its reading and follow along."
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"I was asked by a reader to take a look at yet another crackpot theory of everything... This one is as cranky as any, but it's actually got some interestingly silly math to it."
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IBM scientists use an AFM to measure single-atom forces. I would've thought this was old news, but apparently not.
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At the AAS meeting in Seattle, Rob Knop risked his own well-being to get the details on a poster that was, shall we say, waaaay out of the mainstream. Quoth Rob:
How can I be a more awesome crackpot?
Much has been written of late about the nature of denialism.
Here's an interesting new blog that I discovered via Trackback.