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- Kevin Fox (@kfury) November 10, 2014

The Mathematical Reason All Hipsters Look the Same

Citing The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same

When hipsters are too slow in detecting the trends, they will keep making the same choices and therefore remain correlated as time goes by, while their trend evolves in time as a periodic function.

The November Revolution

...two different research groups announced the discovery of the same new particle and redefined how physicists view the universe.

Fundamental Physics Prize Co-Winner Sells No Wine Before Its Time

Brian Schmidt is the world’s only vintner with a Nobel Prize in physics, specializing in pinot noir because the climate and soil (or terroir) is especially well suited for that varietal. He and is wife own a four-star winery called Maipenrai (Thai for “It’s all right”) in Sutton, ( Read more... )

The link between atmospheric CO2 and rising global temperatures cannot be dismissed as a case of "correlation and causality." ( Read more... )

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The Epic Story of Johann Bernoulli.

No profession is free from the kind of miserable jerks who ruin it for everyone else. No intelligence level is either. When great intelligence, prestige careers, and big egos come together, things get ugly. Johann Bernoulli was, as a person, very ugly.

... Again

Special relativity predicts that a twin in a high-speed rocket, as viewed by his Earth-bound brother, will have a slower-ticking clock. A precise test of this time dilation, first performed in 1938, involves observing the frequency shift-or “ticking” change-in the electronic transitions of fast-moving ions. An update of this type of ( Read more... )

Guest Post: Bring Back The Slide Rule!
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Quantum Gravity Expert Says “Philosophical Superficiality” Has Harmed Physics

I was young in the sixties and seventies, and shared the dream of my generation: changing the world and make it more just and gentle. We lost. I did not know what to do next. I found physics, where, instead, revolutions succeed.