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...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Lifeless water world

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Recent news that Ganymede, Jupiter’s famous moon, may house more water than the Earth, is interesting. NASA’s bold claim that they “shall fi...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Limited imagination

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  And then, she could see the heavens beyond her imagination Out in the distance, Quasars shine but the physicists do not know Near in...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Small noise

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Recent research from Penn State (1) surfaces interesting questions on privacy in the modern world. Privacy has become a stumbling block in t...