Mystery in the OC (don’t call it that)
In which I link to a story only because I want to reference Arrested Development in my headline.
True Love Leaves A Mark
From the UK Times’ Scientists discover true love: “A team from Stony Brook University in New York scanned the brains of couples who had been together for 20 years and compared them with those of new lovers. They found that about one in 10 of the mature couples exhibited the same chemical reactions when shown [...]
You can only be late in two dimensions….?
From Nature’s Time to test time: “The predictions are based on a lower-dimensional view of spacetime: two spatial dimensions, plus time. Spacetime would be a plane of waves, travelling at the speed of light…The third spatial dimension of the macroscopic world would be encoded in information contained in the two-dimensional waves. ‘It’s as if, [...]
On the ‘modernity of tradition’
From Tunku Varadarajan’s Fly Me to the Deity: “An unmanned spacecraft from India — that most worldly and yet otherworldly of nations — is on its way to the moon. For the first time since man and his rockets began trespassing on outer space, a vessel has gone up from a country whose people actually [...]
Making The World A Better Place
From Improbable Research’s 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners: “The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 2, at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. [Here's the award given in the NUTRITION cateegory:] Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, [...]
A Telescope to Peer into The Market
From Mark Buchanan’s This Economy Does Not Compute: “If we’re really going to avoid crises, we’re going to need something more imaginative, starting with a more open-minded attitude to how science can help us understand how markets really work.”
An Opportunity for Will Smith…or Worldwide Panic.
One of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway today , with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
After reading this article I got a little scared. Why?
“Skeptics, who claim that the experiment could [...]
The Proof Is In The Puddin’
From Live Science’s Closest Look Yet at Milky Way’s Black Hole: “For a while now scientists have thought a dense, massive object lurking at the center of our galaxy is likely a giant black hole, but they haven’t been able to prove it. New observations offering the closest view yet of the heart of the [...]
What We Say About Spacetime
This is from Wikipedia’s explanation of Spacetime:
“The term spacetime has taken on a generalized meaning with the advent of higher-dimensional theories. How many dimensions are needed to describe the universe is still an open question. Speculative theories such as string theory predict 10 or 26 dimensions (with M-theory predicting 11 dimensions; 10 spatial and [...]
Interesting Stuff For Dorks Like Me
From the University of Nottingham’s The Periodic Table of Videos: “Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.”
