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Link Black Hole Simulator
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February 14 2010, 5:03am | Comments
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January 26 2010, 4:30pm | Comments
Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite…

January 20 2010, 6:57am | Comments
Link From Eternity to Here
The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is…

January 12 2010, 3:15am | Comments
Link Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider
Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute…

December 25 2009, 7:54pm | Comments
Link This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System
Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In…

November 19 2009, 4:46pm | Comments
Link Spooky Signals from the Future Telling Us to…
A recent essay in the New York Times by Dennis Overbye has managed to attract quite a bit of attention around the internets — most of it not very positive.…

October 15 2009, 8:13am | Comments
Link The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About…
Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to…

October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Link An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does…

October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments
Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural…

September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments
Link Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension
We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely…

September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments
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July 12 2009, 3:54pm | Comments
Blog Post The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Grapholectic Thought and the…
Of course my mini-history of scientific revolution should not be taken itself as a “truth”. I draw it as a parable of progress, as…

March 23 2009, 2:38am | Comments
Link Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever…
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision…

March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing
Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to…

December 29 2008, 11:52am | Comments

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