Tabby’s star
A new thesis suggests that the star may not have been fading in brightness over the last century – but remains mum on what could be causing the erratic flux at all.
Month: January 2016
32 days and counting
Do you just wait for your writers’ block to fade or do you have a remedy for it?
Priggish NEJM editorial on data-sharing misses the point it almost made
The editorial expresses fear that people who publish in the journal’s pages could be wrong – cleanly forgetting that replication and revalidation are a big part of science.
Parsing Ajay Sharma v. E = mc2
An Indian scientist’s disputes with Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence betray a misreading of how one of history’s most famous equations came to be.
Note
This blog turns five today. It’s nice to think I’ve a habit when few others have survived. Thank you for reading my writing. 🙂
Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.