EU: all incandescent light bulbs banned tomorrow

In the article aptly titled "Light-Bulb Ban Casts Shadow over EU Democracy" , The Spiegel reminds us, the Europeans, about an imp...

Harvard course: 125 students copy a take-home exam

B Chimp Yen has informed me about a mass cheating scandal at Harvard; see e.g. these sources . BBC and other outlets wouldn't tell you ...

German offshore wind turbines: hiding all the disadvantages

Most of the otherwise rational German nation was scared by the Fukushima non-disaster and decided to close all of its nuclear power plants b...

London built a new paralympic LHC collider

The opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London was apparently a cool event. At the beginning of this 4-minute preview, you may ...

Moonlanding was staged, 74% of climate alarmists say

Update: poll results You may still vote but analogously to the Lewandowsky poll, I decided that a sufficient number of votes have been submi...

Conformal Standard Model and the second \(325\GeV\) Higgs boson

Does Peter Higgs (or God) have a secretive brother? Křištof Meissner and Hermann Nicolai released a short preprint \(325\GeV\) scalar resona...

Alan Guth and inflation

Alan Guth of MIT is one of the nine well-deserved inaugural winners of the Milner Prize . He has received $2,999,988 because Milner failed ...

Crackpots are patient while sending texts to journals

In November 2011 , a group of three physicists/mathematicians wrote the 3,635th paper suggesting that there had to be something wrong about...

Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012

Neil Armstrong , an unusually modest professional who considered moonwalk to be a job just like any other job, took this New World Symphony ...

Simple proof QM implies many worlds don't exist

A vast majority of the people who write popular books, blogs, and comments at discussion forums about the foundations of quantum mechanics a...