November 2011
6 posts
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Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in Depression →
Should be compulsory reading for everyone who’s ever tried to bully someone out of depression—or tried to bully themself out of depression. Very, very accurate and very, very humorous description of what it’s actually like.
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Broadcasters lose their nerve over BBC's climate... →
Broadcasters in US and elsewhere censor BBC’s Frozen Planet series by omitting the episode about climate change.
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symmetry breaking » Blog Archive »... →
Same setup, but with the neutrinos sent in very short, widely spaced pulses to make the timing more accurate.
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Legal Challenge to Government’s ‘Forced Labour’... →
Public Interest Lawyers have begun legal action against the UK government’s “Mandatory Work” scheme.
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Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose... →
Apparent breach of anti-slavery law by the UK government. The title is misleading: it is not just young jobseekers who are subject to this.
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Quantum theorem shakes foundations : Nature News &... →
Is the wavefunction a mathematical convenience predicting probabilities for different observations of a particle, or does it have physical reality? A new mathematical theorem suggests the wavefunction is a real physical object.
