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Quantum physics made relatively* simple
Hans Bethe was a nuclear pioneer, a contributor to the Manhattan Project, a founder of Cornell’s physics program, and a Nobel prize winner. And in 1999 – at the age of 93 and from his retirement...
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Your little girl doesn’t have to grow up to be a princess. Maybe she wants to be an engineer. The post Engineering toys for girls appeared first on The Plummet Onions.
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Because of black holes, we have wifi
Mathematicians and physicists predicted the existence of black holes before we ever found them; perhaps unsurprising since they don’t give off any light. But eventually we figured out that they really...
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Games I made in a Python class: play them
A few weeks ago I finished my third free online Coursera course: An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python. I enjoyed it a great deal. I used to do a lot of programming, but it’s been a long...
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Why Do People Fear GMOs?
There’s a lot of public angst in several parts of the world about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). In one way this is surprising, because there isplenty of evidence that they’re entirely safe....
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Watch Kate Upton Posing In Zero Gravity In A Bikini Because Science
Thank you, Gizmodo. Sports Illustrated had a wonderful idea: demonstrate how zero gravity works on muscular and fat body masses by putting Kate Upton in a bikini and taking her in a parabolic flight....
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Primordial gravitational waves, and ants in the curl of space
Bicep2 You know a scientific discovery is big when it makes the regular news, and the apparent discovery of primordial gravitational waves has done that. These results are believed to show what...
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News of the Obvious: Homeopathy is Nonsense
From Lifehacker: The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released a new draft paper on the effectiveness of homeopathy following an in-depth analysis across 68...
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The state of science research in Australia is slipping even further
I’ve harboured dreams of going back into a more scientific job in a few years. I miss doing science. But I’ve realised that to do so in Australia today would be foolish. Earlier this year I mentioned...
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Medical sense reclaiming ground in Australia
I’ve seen a couple of articles recently that give me faith that medical science – and medical sense – are causing a reversal of some worrying trends. Treatments that don’t work In 2012 the previous...
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