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Date: October 27th, 2008

There’s One Thing That’s Perpetual

27 October, 2008 (03:57) | Antiscience, Physics | 7 comments

Credulous media will apparently never run out.
Blacklight Power bolsters its impossible claims of a new renewable energy source
It’s difficult to pay attention to these claims, because scientific history is littered with ambitious, revolutionary theories that turned out to be groundless. But Blacklight is an interesting case. Its “hydrino” theory isn’t put forth by a single [...]

Say It Isn’t So

27 October, 2008 (03:57) | Music, Video |

In the 80s music videos link from the other day I noticed the unsurprising absence of BLOTTO, a favorite Albany (NY)-based band from my high school/ college days (along with Fear of Strangers, aka The Units). So I went and looked for them on YouTube.
I must protest what I found.
This has to [...]

A Slice of PI

27 October, 2008 (03:56) | Physics |

What We Research at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Researchers at PI build on the two great revolutionary advances of 20th century physics – the relativity and quantum theories:
Einstein discovered that space and time are not separate entities, but are different aspects of a single geometrical entity called spacetime, which dynamically twists and warps as [...]

Have Some Perspective

27 October, 2008 (03:56) | Illusions |

A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions
slideshow and article

 

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