Interesting Links for 23-9-2011

[andrewducker]

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  Single-sex schooling does not improve academic performance and can lead to gender stereotyping
  (tags: gender education)
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  Mind-reading technology reconstructs videos from brain scans
  (tags: mri brains video TheFuture)
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  Doctor Who season 7 pushed back to autumn 2012
  (tags

Comments

[khbrown]

On the possible FTL particles see Slashdot, if you haven't already.

[gonzo21]

I did wonder when those rumours surfaced of the BBC deciding to only have 7 episodes of Doctor Who next year, if it would turn out to be the case.

Sad to see them cutting back on programming, instead of cutting back on executive numbers and perks.

[andrewducker]

Well, the other half and the whole of the next season are happening in 2013, so we're getting as many shows, just pushed back by six months.

[gonzo21]

And if there is a second 6 month pushback with the second half of next season, then it amounts to essentially a seasons worth of skipped episodes. So the BBC have found a way to save a whole seasons worth of expense?

Or is my maths faulty there...

[andrewducker]

At the cost of lower ratings, yes.

[gonzo21]

Oh, and I don't have anything more on the particles breaking the speed of light thing, but I do have the quote of the century from Subir Sarkar, head of particle theory at the University of Oxford:

"If we do not have causality, we are buggered."

[momentsmusicaux]

We're buggered, but the thing buggering us may not have actually done the buggering yet...

[drjon]

This².

[gonzo21]

But having observed the buggering, we can presumably have confidence that the possibility wave will collapse down into actual buggery.

Much to the discomfort of us all.

[momentsmusicaux]

Doctor Who -- so basically the season goes from being in the spring to being in the spring & autumn, to being in the autumn & following spring... we're losing a year here!

[drjon]

I don't think there'll be more until other teams have reported on their attempts at replication.

[undeadbydawn]

indeedy.

notwithstanding that these results are more accurate replicas of an experiment a few years back.