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Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'
A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments
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May 3 2010, 9:38am | Comments
Portfolio System of Enthalpy

March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics
A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Black Hole Simulator
Get sucked in

February 14 2010, 4:03am | Comments
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January 26 2010, 3:30pm | 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 sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

January 20 2010, 5:57am | Comments
Bookmark 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 so…

January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments
Bookmark 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 YouTube…

December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments
Bookmark 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 the…

November 19 2009, 3:46pm | Comments
Bookmark Spooky Signals from the Future Telling Us to Cancel the LHC!
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. It…

October 15 2009, 8:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
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 discern…

October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Bookmark 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 their…

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 nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments
Bookmark 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 a…

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

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…
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 regarding,…

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 right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an…

December 29 2008, 10:52am | Comments

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