The Math-e-Monday Puzzle: A Jailer's Revenge

The Math-e-Monday Puzzle: A Jailer's Revenge

This is a fairly new problem, being traced back to as recently as 2003. However, it also has the kind of counter-intuitive solution that has made it a favourite on mathematical websites and forums.…
Two Higgs After All ? A New Signal From CMS !

Two Higgs After All ? A New Signal From CMS !

What looks like a tantalizing signal of the rare two-muon decay of the Higgs boson has been evidenced in an analysis of 2011+2012 data just sent to PRL by the CMS collaboration. This analysis…
The compelling case against the universe!

The compelling case against the universe!

A ground breaking paper has been published in the journal of comparative irrelevance which shows the Lambda CDM model is wrong.  It's all in the numbers..This theory explains everything better…
Cloning Wooly Mammoths?

Cloning Wooly Mammoths?

OK, here's the premise.  The Audubon Nature Institute has something they call a "frozen zoo" (1) which contains genetic material from endangered species.  In this way recently extinct…
Nanotechnology Superdangerous Biotech

Nanotechnology Superdangerous Biotech

Globally existential threats due to ‘overpopulation momentum’ together with the top-heavy age structure leave by now no alternative to radical technological adaptation for anything that wants to…
The Feynman Point And Pilish Poetry

The Feynman Point And Pilish Poetry

When I was a kid, I would happily play around with both words and numbers – I still do. Both have their aesthetic appeal. Whether it is constructing and deconstructing mathematical puzzles or cryptic…
Oodles Of Vague Non-numerical Quantifiers

Oodles Of Vague Non-numerical Quantifiers

Cross-disciplinary  academic progress in vagueness has recently been augmented  with a paper from Prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková CSc. at Palacký University, in Olomouc, Czech Republic.…