Pseudoscience hiding behind "weak measurements"

Jason Rush sent me a link to a new insane anti-quantum article spread by the BBC: Quantum test pricks uncertainty Subtitle: Pioneering expe...

Klaus: West is, disappointingly, returning to socialism and etatism

The Mont Pelerin Society was founded in 1947 by free-market luminaries Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler, and ...

Science debate, 14 questions: Romney beats Obama

Some people wanted American politicians to explicitly address scientific questions. Whether it's important or not, the project has becom...

Pascual Jordan and foundations of QM

Among the fathers of quantum mechanics, Pascual Jordan is the least well-known one. Needless to say, politics is the single most important ...

WISE finds millions of black holes, thousands of hot DOGs

As lots of media outlets such as HJ News point out, the WISE satellite assembled in Logan, Utah (Mitt Romney's mother's hometown) ...

Sunlight or neutrinos affect the radon gamma decay rate

Seasonal and daytime variations in the gamma decay rate Several readers have directed my attention to a recent, May 2012 Stanford-Purdue-Isr...

Stratospheric geoengineering: undoing global warming costs below $8 bn/year

Bits of Science , Revmodo , and Fars News talk about a new Aurora-Harvard-Carnegie paper in Environmental Research Letters Cost analysis of...