Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Quantum games

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Research from LMU in Munich attempts to test if quantum particles, such as bosons, follow prescriptions of game theory, a well established ...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Publication pollution

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A recent commentary in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, highlights most academics and those less academic, already knew – the need and desire to...
Monday, April 20, 2015

WISE, Not!

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Recent news that NASA’s WISE orbiting observatory found no tell-tale signs of advanced societies in 100,000 galaxies studied, is a constant ...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Stuck in the weeds

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Yet another policy choice and the reaction of our fearless leaders to it, show the level of ignorance and incompetence the country has to g...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Engineers discover probabilities

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Recent news that MIT engineers have finally discovered probabilities is heartening news. A “probabilistic programming language,” they “inve...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Frustrated

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Recent research from Princeton that attempts to spin yet another particle – spinon – to “explain” frustrated magnets, is symptomatic of tryi...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Stop time

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Stopping time appears to have several advantages. The trick is the modality of stoppage. If time is stopped with an incremental move, say a...
Friday, March 20, 2015

The “habitable zone”

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A recent publication in the “ Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,” uses “heavy Mathematics,” to show that there could be bill...