Con’t from Wed. I was totally ready to let Fontgate go. I was. Totally ready to move on to something else and pretend it never happened. It’s better for my nerves. But people keep saying silly things in defense of it, and such pushback will not stand, folks. I almost always overlook ignorance in these [...]
What will happen if they don’t announce a strong Sigma on Wednesday? Probably not this, but you never know, editors need headlines. You might recall we already went through a similar update back in December, but since then twice as much data has been collected (and you know the Higgs is just itching to be [...]
Click Here for a larger version of the image to peruse. If you like actually being able to complete the puzzle, the older, less realistic version can be seen here. Are you done looking? Great. Last Tuesday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) delivered a press conference and presentation that set hearts alight and renewed [...]
Welcome to a segment I’m calling “Unnecessary Matryoshka subsets” the subsets of which are strictly defined as follows: Movies you normally would not expect to contain science, which in fact do contain science. Movies I happen to watch that contain said unexpected science. The science in said movies that seem intriguing. Said [...]