How soon after the claim that the Higgs discovery is 'international' did self-loathing Americans and Europeans ridicule the American institutions that issued press releases noting their part in the work?About a day. The smug intimation was because America did not want to fund the whole LHC completely - understandable given the fiasco of the Superconducting Supercollider - that we somehow...
read moreDr. Yoshitaka Fujii, formerly an anesthesiologist at Toho University's medical school, has a record no published researcher can match. He is 209 and 3. The problem is the 3 are papers of his that are known not to be fraudulent between 1993 and 2011.
read moreWhen the only organization who thinks continued funding of your technology is the United Steelworkers union, you may have a business problem. Gamesa Wind Corporation has announced a layoff of 165 workers at plants in Fairless Hills and Ebensburg, Pa. The United Steelworkers (USW) says non-renewal of the the Production Tax Credit (PTC), which expires on December 31st, 2012, is the...
read moreIf you have a Kinect and Goggles and an augmented reality program, what would you create?Apparently a Japanese anime singer girlfriend, so you could bop her on the head. I can't figure out any of this, but Hackaday gives it a shot so give them a read. I just know that, weird dynamic with the virtual girlfriend aside, this is darn cool.Dance, Hatsune Miku,...
read moreIn a Science editorial, actor, playwright and science advocate Alan Alda challenged scientists to answer a simple-sounding question in a way that would capture the imagination of an 11-year-old.“What is a flame? What’s going on in there? What will you tell me?”Basically, he would like to find the next Carl Sagan. And he was inspired because he asked that question as an 11-year-old and got a...
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