If you are anything like me, you were surprised that the LHC announced a 5-sigma result for the Higgs boson last July. Not because it wasn't there - it clearly was - but because usually physicists are really, really conservative in their claims. While astronomers start every press release with 'may mean life on other planets' and biologists love to invoke missing links ten times a year,...
read moreIf you are anything like me, you were surprised that the LHC announced a 5-sigma result for the Higgs boson last July. Not because it wasn't there - it clearly was - but because usually physicists are really, really conservative in their claims. While astronomers start every press release with 'may mean life on other planets' and biologists love to invoke missing links ten times a year,...
read moreCardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been chosen as Pope Francis, leader of the Holy See in Rome. That's all well and good, it's nice that heavily-Catholic South America is getting its due and I found it interesting that a Jesuit chose to name himself after a Franciscan. read...
read moreCell phones and cancer, nuclear power and cancer, GMOs and...cancer. If there is an anti-science position, someone in Europe is embracing it, and food is no different.But practicality sometimes makes science - even spooky, scary science like the kind that takes an all-natural pest-resistant gene and puts it into another plant - more palatable. Europe can afford to be anti-science when it...
read moreCell phones and cancer, nuclear power and cancer, GMOs and...cancer. If there is an anti-science position, someone in Europe is embracing it, and food is no different.But practicality sometimes makes science - even spooky, scary science like the kind that takes an all-natural pest-resistant gene and puts it into another plant - more palatable. Europe can afford to be anti-science when it...
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