LHC Group Nobel For The Higgs Could Set Precedent Not Seen Since…2012
Speculation is rampant that the discovery of the Higgs boson will get a Nobel prize. read...
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A Dinosaur Ghost In Spirit River
Paleontologists usually find fossils jumbled up, broken apart, crushed and spread out over a large area, not in one piece.A whole 35-foot dinosaur may be slumbering inside the rock a construction worker hit while clearing a site in the town of Spirit River. He was making way for an oil pipeline - see, Big Energy is good for science in lots of ways!"The last time I've seen something like that was...
read moreScience Education, Where We’re Happiest In Despair
In an article I did for USA Today's Friday/weekend edition, I noted the recurring meme that American education is 'abysmal.' read...
read moreWeekend Science: Let A Mathematical Magic 8-Ball Run Your Life
Internet algorithms have done lots of wonderful things but can they help you live your life? In the past, algorithms helped you find better encyclopedia answers to questions, but that is very 1990s. Google is not a search engine company now, they are an ad company that has a search engine front-end and their searches end up at Wikipedia or About.com so you're better off just going directly to...
read moreChina’s Cap On American Garbage: Pseudo-Environmental States Impacted Most
I've often argued that California's biggest industry is hypocrisy - not just talking about freedom and liberalism while banning conduct elites happen not to like this year or reconfiguring voting districts so that there is no political opposition but that we claim to care about the environment.In reality, our dirty secret, that people either don't know or don't want to know but every policy maker...
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