It's two weeks until Christmas and if you are a Science 2.0 reader, that means it is at least time to think about shopping for a Christmas gift. Demographically, not a lot of you were lining up to gratefully overpay for Apple's latest offering or whatever else obedient Oprah viewers are expected to buy on Black Friday.Here are three nifty ideas that are science related for your...
read moreAt Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP, Ken Regan tackles what the statistical nuance of 'evidence' means in the latest Higgs disclosure, delving into statistics and social convention in a hard science (actually, he puts "hard science" in quotes, though I am not sure why - perhaps he thinks 'hard' is the colloquial version, like 'difficult' so he doesn't want to annoy social fields) such as...
read moreAt Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP, Ken Regan tackles what the statistical nuance of 'evidence' means in the latest Higgs disclosure, delving into statistics and social convention in a hard science (actually, he puts "hard science" in quotes, though I am not sure why - perhaps he thinks 'hard' is the colloquial version, like 'difficult' so he doesn't want to annoy social fields) such as...
read moreIf a crime occurs, asking the criminal what happened is unlikely to give you the most accurate picture of events. This is why police interview the victim first. So an evolutionary psychologist outlining how great evolutionary psychology is has to be taken with a grain of salt; no one becomes a professor in a field and then decides it is a lot of woo. read...
read moreFor decades, physicists have used a theory known as the Standard Model to explain the interactions of subatomic particles, and the theory works beautifully. It's guided our way through the world of nuclear power, television, microwave ovens and lasers. One problem: The theory needed something extra to explain why some particles have mass and some don't. Back in the 1960s, physicist Peter Higgs...
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