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Tweet On 31st October 2011, according to the UN, the world’s population reached 7 billion. They may be wrong. These things are hard to estimate. But, if they are, it is only by a year or two. Most of those people have arrived since I was born. The BBC has a cute calculator that shows [...] Tweet I just read about a Russian “tycoon” called Dimitry Itskov who is putting money into a venture called Initiative 2045, “a non-profit organization focused on creating an international research center where scientists will research and develop the technologies to make eternal life possible,” according to nextbigfuture.com. Apart from the tragic news that people still [...] Tweet He was better than average too. I came across the Duning-Kruger effect in a series of tweets by an amusing fellow called @GodlessAtheist who argued that it is the reason why religious people are so smug. I don’t doubt that this is true. (Have you ever heard a religious type arguing any scientific [...] Tweet Indie author Bryant Delafosse tagged me with one of those meme things. Well I think those meme things are evil and usually I don’t play. But, since I’m embarrassingly flattered to be tagged, and as I have been neglecting my bloggerly duties of late, I’m going to give this one a go. The idea [...] Tweet I read a piece in The Register today about a court case underway in the UK between some old Welsh bloke and the BBC. He’s suing them because he wants to know who was at an internal BBC meeting, held six years ago, about climate change. I don’t care too much about that. Even [...] Tweet I can’t help it, I agonise over the meanings of things. I’m a discriminator; a differentiator. I like to categorise. Take “science fiction” (oh stop groaning, you went to the trouble of clicking the link, you might as well listen to what I have to say). It’s a term that arose in the mists [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) About 100 years ago, our understanding of the universe was rocked when Einstein’s theory of relativity was published. Yet even as the world came to grips with this astonishing insight, another even less intuitive and more complex model of reality, quantum theory, was [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in The New York Journal of Books.) Quantum theory has a bad rap. It is a by-word for strangeness. It is arguably the main reason why so few people understand or trust science anymore. So a book that promises “to demystify quantum theory” is offering something quite special. Its authors, [...] |
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