cultural hero

From GQ
The very thing that makes Bill Murray, well, Bill Murray is what makes sitting down with him such an unpredictable enterprise. Bill Murray crashes parties, ditches promotional appearances, clashes with his friends, his collaborators, and his enemies. If you—movie director, journalist, dentist—want to speak to him, you don’t go through any gatekeeper. You leave a [...]

Schrodinger’s tape measure

From The New Scientist

Take the simple process of measuring a photon’s spin. Thanks to the strange nature of the quantum world, it can actually be spinning in two directions at once, a phenomenon known as superposition. When we use a detector to measure the spin, however, the superposition disappears and we register a spin occurring [...]

spooky

From NPR
Fallon says nobody in his family has real problems with those behaviors. But he wanted to be sure. Conveniently, he had everything he needed: Previously, he had persuaded 10 of his close relatives to submit to a PET brain scan and give a blood sample as part of a project to see whether his [...]

lift off

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

numbers

data

This is a fairly heavy, yet nonetheless fascinating survey of some new ideas surrounding the question of gravity and quantum physics generally…

One of the hottest new ideas in physics is that gravity is an emergent phenomena; that it somehow arises from the complex interaction of simpler things.
A few month’s ago, Erik Verlinde at the the [...]

is this too good to be true?

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tripping out with the physicists

The likeithateit team have been looking at this article for a while now and so far have gleaned, that the universe is either a giant Pringle  with five dimensions or else a holographic projection – either way, its kind of intense.  See if you can follow it and then get back to us. From The [...]

you have no choice…

from  Forbes Magazine
Neuromarketers are becoming the next generation of Mad Men. They are working for companies like Google, Frito-Lay and Disney. But instead of directly asking consumers whether they like a product, neuromarketers are asking their brains.
Using electroencephalography (EEG)–a technology typically used by neurologists to diagnose seizures–marketers measure brain wave activity in response to advertisements [...]

the nuclear option

Just like Peter Garret, I can feel pragmatism creaking in my joints like arthritis. After decades of “noing” nuclear, I now have some sympathy for the idea.  Whether this has been conjured by the media spin of a newly (ahem) energised nuclear lobby, or the fear of global Armageddon through the oil wars or quite [...]

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