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Dark Energy Doubt | Vol. 3 / No. 52.3

October 26, 2016 RFB This is kind of over my head

Five years ago, three scientists won the Nobel prize for discovering that the universe isn’t just expanding, but that that expansion is accelerating for reasons unkown. And now that discovery is a little less certain than it was.
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Intelligence “Inherited From Mothers”? Well Some Of It, Sure | Vol. 3 / No. 45.3

September 7, 2016 RFB Feminism

Photo: Flickr user Allan Ajifo, CC BY 2.0 So, I’m a feminist. As such, I belong to a number of feminist Facebook groups and follow a number of feminist blogs. And 99% of the time […]

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A Fifth Fundamental Force? | Vol. 3 / No. 42.2

August 16, 2016 RFB Don't get your hopes up

Image: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, CC BY-SA 2.0 Phys.org is reporting, as of yesterday, that physicists have confirmed the “possible discovery of fifth force of nature.” That’s some pretty big talk, but let’s back up for a […]

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EMDrive Update: Unruh Radiation Edition | Vol. 3 / No. 25.4

April 21, 2016 RFB Don't get your hopes up

Does it even produce thrust? | Photo: Mario Solera, CC0 (Public Domain) *** Remember Robert Shawyer’s EMDrive? The cone-shaped thing that supposedly produces thrust without a propellant? I’ve talked about it before. Well, it’s still not confirmed […]

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Ethics and the “Ashley Treatment” | Vol. 3 / No. 22.3

March 30, 2016 RFB Thinking Out Loud

Holding baby’s hands forever? | Photo: fruity monkey, CC BY 2.0 A new post over at Retraction Watch has followed hard on the heels of a New York Times article about something called the “Ashley […]

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The Slow Pace Of Big Science | Vol. 3 / No. 19.4

March 10, 2016 RFB This is kind of over my head

*** Big announcements in the world of science aren’t very common, and when they are, it’s because someone came up with a massive prediction that no-one outside of a select scientific community were even aware […]

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Yes, We Could See Blue Even Without A Word For It | Vol. 3 / No. 19.3

March 9, 2016March 9, 2016 RFB Skepticism

A post from over a year ago has been making the rounds again, with the headline “No-one Could See The Color Blue Until Modern Times.” The article from Business Insider contains some interesting observations on […]

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Hand of the Creator | Vol. 3 / No. 18.4

March 3, 2016March 3, 2016 RFB This is kind of over my head

In a story that is likely to get weirder before it gets saner, a paper published in the journal PLOS One has made some, shall we say rather unusual claims. Read on. [Updated 5:30pm 3 […]

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Google’s Quantum Computer | Vol. 3 / No. 6.4

December 10, 2015 RFB This is kind of over my head

In which I largely fail to describe what’s going on. *** In the news yesterday, it came out that the “D-Wave X2 Quantum Computing System” that Google teamed with NASA to buy in 2013 does seem to […]

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