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.
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.