God does play dice with the universe
A new popular science book reveals that God does play dice with the universe. The new discovery may finally solve Zeno's paradoxes and the quantum puzzle.
One-sided Media Reporting of Global Warming
As a layperson one thing that strikes me most about the global warming debate is the blatant one sided reporting that appears in the media.
Double-blind Review Favors Increased Representation of Female Authors
A study published this month has concluded that a switch to double-blind peer review (where neither authors nor reviewers see one another's names) leads to increased publication of papers with female first authors.
Futurology and the Infamous Fourteen
At this year's AAAS meeting in Boston, a panel of eighteen thinkers was charged with creating a technological to-do list for the twenty-first century. They came up with 14 items that could have been drawn from any student essay. Some of us think they should have done better.
If My Genes Are 98.8% Chimp... Does That Mean I'm Only 1.2% Human?
Chimps are our closest living genetic relatives, but what does it mean that humans and chimps have nearly identical DNA sequences? Put a human and a chimp side-by-side and there's no confusion about who's who?
Nuclear Cannibals
Nuclear energy production must increase by more than 10 percent each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but this is an unsustainable prospect because nuclear will have to cannibalize itself to sustain power plant production.
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