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Month: January 2016

Tabby’s star

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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 28, 2016 Science

32 days and counting

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Do you just wait for your writers’ block to fade or do you have a remedy for it?

January 24, 2016 Life notes

Priggish NEJM editorial on data-sharing misses the point it almost made

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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.

January 24, 2016 Scicomm

Parsing Ajay Sharma v. E = mc2

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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.

January 14, 2016 Scicomm

Note

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This blog turns five today. It’s nice to think I’ve a habit when few others have survived. Thank […]

January 12, 2016 Life notes

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.

January 8, 2016 Science
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