2016-03-19 18:53
This is my last post on Skepsisfera. It was good while it lasted, but I'm moving on to a different style of blogging. All posts will still be available here and at the new blog:The Lost Art… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
At this point, everyone must already know about the scientists boycott of the publisher Elsevier. As for today, more than 3000 scientists signed a supporting document called "The Cost of Kno… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I don't like to much to criticize other people's work, but came to learn that it's an important part of letting people aware of the wrong things that appear in the press. Not only that, it's… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I have just read a very nice paper on how badly confidence levels are interpreted as probabilities of events in Particle Physics:Probably a discovery: Bad mathematics means rough scientific… Read More
2011-12-22 18:27
I don't like to much to criticize other people's work, but came to learn that it's an important part of letting people aware of the wrong things that appear in the press. Not only that, it's… Read More
2011-12-20 13:42
A bit of knowledge just for the sake of knowledge by Richard P. Feynman:Via Open Culture Read More
2011-10-05 20:59
I think it's a little late for this now, but as I had this draft on my blogger, I thought I'd better publish it or delete it. I decided to publish it.The Nobel Prize of Physics of this… Read More
2011-08-09 17:36
From Science JokesFour stages of acceptance: i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; iii) this is true, but quite unimpor… Read More
2011-06-14 20:31
Just a quick post as I found this very interesting article in the Wolfram blog:aMAZEing Image Processing in Mathematica,by Jon McLooneThe photo above is from the article. It's an aerial view… Read More
2011-06-10 14:18
I've just read this interesting paper from arXiv:The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy, Rio et al.Landauer's erasure principle exposes an intrinsic relation between thermodynamics an… Read More
2011-06-03 09:18
I've been blogging about the world entering a New Dark Age for some time, but news like this one make me think that instead of Dark, I should call it Dumb Age:Italian Seismologists Charged W… Read More
2011-05-27 22:42
I'm not citing names, first because they would be meaningless for most people, second because I'm not stupid and my future job may in one way or another depend on those involved some day. Be… Read More
2011-02-22 12:44
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of receiving Julian Barbour here at Aston for a seminar. Julian is a singular physicist and I really admire him. Specially for the path he chose after getti… Read More
2011-02-17 15:12
This very illuminating paragraph is a comment to the blog post Bloodbath for Science, posted in the Cosmic Variance blog, that talks about the huge cuts in science funding in the USA:Underst… Read More
2011-01-30 20:17
I am still organising the seminars in our group every Friday. In the last one, we had a very interesting one given by Prof. Juan Garrahan, from Nottingham University. The title was the same… Read More
2011-01-24 19:06
I know this seems completely off-topic and unnecessary, but one of the advantages of having a blog is to be able to make your complaints available for a wider audience. However, I believe th… Read More
2011-01-23 19:44
All definitions of the Anthropic Principle can be classified into two groups: the trivial and the wrong.I know that the above assertion can be criticised for being too strong and too careles… Read More
2011-01-19 22:28
xkcd: 3D Read More
2011-01-18 12:02
For those who are not Star Trek fans, it is probably not very clear what a geek sci-fi show that is not even being broadcast anymore has to do with anything barely real. Fans, otherwise… Read More
2011-01-09 19:58
Those of you who have been following me on Twitter (and had the patience to read what I am posting there) probably noticed the huge amount of twits with the tag #holography attached. The rea… Read More
2011-01-01 17:19
I had an interesting discussion with a friend during Christmas. It started because one of my presents, which I chose, was Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion. The discussion at some point beca… Read More
2010-10-12 21:42
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2010-10-10 17:53
I like string theory, but as sad as it may seem we have to face that there is still no experimental test of it. And again, as desperate some people may be not to have wasted their lives (whi… Read More
2010-10-09 15:25
I know news run fast through the web and everyone knows by now that the Nobel of physics this year went to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, from the University of Manchester here in the… Read More
2010-10-05 07:24
I have just started reading Chapter 5 of the book Biological Physics by Philip Nelson, which is called Life in the Slow Lane: The Low Reynolds-Number World. The book is an undergraduate intr… Read More
2010-09-14 08:25
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest"Benjamin FranklinIt was a beautiful morning and the singer, who was one of the most popular in his planet, sat in his living room to… Read More
2010-09-11 09:19
A bit of knowledge just for the sake of knowledge by Richard P. Feynman:Via Open Culture Read More
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