My Life's Work, All Mixed Up

My Life's Work, All Mixed Up

They did a great job describing the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, but an awful job showing a picture of it.  "They" will remain nameless, as they otherwise put together a really great exhibit of…
The kind of comment that makes bloggers sick.

The kind of comment that makes bloggers sick.

In spite of not having any where near as much physics education some people feel a need to prove they know more than I do.  These people are never physicist themselves, they have nothing to…
ThromboGenics NV: Business Update

ThromboGenics NV: Business Update

LEUVEN, Belgium, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- - Regulated Information - Disclosure in Accordance With the Law of May 2, 2007 ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), a biotechnology company focused on…
Nit-Picking On The Omega_b Discovery

Nit-Picking On The Omega_b Discovery

A first observation of the Omega_b baryon -a quite exotic particle composed of a bottom quark and two strange quarks- has been recently published by the DZERO collaboration. Their paper claims to…
The Internet, in "New Scientist", part 2

The Internet, in "New Scientist", part 2

Today I’ll continue my series commenting on the New Scientist magazine series “Eight things you didn’t know about the internet”. Part 2 is “Could the net become self-aware?”, by Michael Brooks. Mr…