I got a private message from Gerhard Adam which went "I'm getting used to being called a moron, etc. but why do they have to pick on the cowboy hat?" Why indeed?  Hats used to be cool but they…

And after all I said about Supersymmetry being an invention, I fear I now have to eat it all with my hat to boot ! The ATLAS Collaboration has just released results of a very striking search for…

This article looks at the mathematics of Self-Field Theory (SFT) and how it impacts on electromagnetics and thus on physics.  As we saw in the article 'A new mathematics for the hydrogen atom',…

Trimethyl-Xanthine (spoken: Zanthine) is a bitter, white crystalline alkaloid. It is found in varying quantities in the seeds, leaves, and fruit of some plants, where it is naturally synthesized as a…

People like to live in important times. This is why you will see fairly silly statements like, 'politicial discourse is more acrimonious than ever' even though no one is caning anyone on the floor of…

People can already count since several millennia. Arithmetic is improved over time. Usually we count by using integers. If we want to get more accurate results, then we better use rational numbers.…

I hear "yeah, but" all day long. I hear it from students at school. I hear it from my children. I read it and see it all over the internet; from autism-land to politics, we have become a nation of…

Can people tell how appetizingly fresh a cabbage is, just by looking at photos of the leaves? In 2010, a team of investigators from four prestigious Japanese research institutes (along with  The…

In the parallel world where bonobos* developed into those that took over the earth with the help of technology, they never insisted on an absolute nature of time in the first place. Einstein came…

Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, was not walking around Africa alone three million years ago.   Biologists knew that, of course, the neatly linear line from critter to modern man does not exist…