Percival Zhang: cheap hydrogen fuel from any plant

Joseph S. has sent me links to articles (e.g. UPI , Forbes ) about an energy breakthrough claimed by Percival Zhang , a bio-engineer from ...

Obama, beauty, and sexism

I had to laugh when I learned that Barack Obama who has often benefited from political correctness has been caught to the PC trap himself. A...

Dyson: Climatologists are no Einsteins

The New Jersey Star Ledger printed a nice interview with Freeman Dyson: Climatologists are no Einsteins, says his successor (Star Ledger) B...

AMS: the steep drop is very likely there

Reconstructing the dark matter particle from sloppily censored data On Wednesday, Sam Ting gave the talk about AMS-02 at CERN . If you misse...

Holy week with the EU: an insane EU propaganda video

The iDNES.cz news server and other Czech media have brought us a trailer of a new movie funded by the national branches of the top EU instit...

Reframing string theory in terms of observer horizons

Yasunori Nomura and Jaime Varela – sometimes with Sean Weinberg – wrote several papers that explain a reason why the argument by AMPS that ...

AMS-02 seems to overcautiously censor solid evidence for dark matter

The case for a \(350\GeV\) neutralino strong but probably made look weaker Quick links: the new AMS-02 paper (open access); liveblog from...

Ernst Chladni: an anniversary

Ernst Chladni , the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics, passed away in Wrocław (German: Breslau, Czech: Vratislav) on April 3...

Italy seizes $1.7 billion from Sicilian counterpart of Al Gore

Fox News and all the other media are full of the breaking news that the Italian police have seized €1.3 billion from Vito Nicastri. This ...

Dwindling AGW and retired Hansen

Post-retirement Hansen has no reasons for self-glorification Juliet Eilperin , an alarmist hired gun at the Washington Post, is among the re...

UCSC study: sea lions like Backstreet Boys

...but the metronome is pretty good, too... The University of California in Santa Cruz – where I spent the first half of the year 2000 – has...

AMS-02: dark matter is composed of a cosmic string

...and its shape seems very "wiggly"... The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer finally decided to expose its first batch of data at Princ...