Science and SciFi
When I first heard about the plans that the British Library had about an exhibitions called Science is Beautiful I got very excited. I did even make an entry in my diary about the date… Read More »Science is beautiful exhibition
Ever since the previous Java update for the mac, my Gephi installation was not happy. I resorted to uninstalling version 0.8.2-beta and going back to 0.8.1. Not a bad version, but definitely not one with… Read More »Getting Gephi 0.8.2 to work with a Mac
Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp-post, for support rather than illumination.
Very pleased with the post that arrived today. It looks like I am sorted for my healthy dose of geeky reading.
It may sound like a line from Star Trek, but I can assure you that the creation of a beam made out of anti-hydrogen atoms is a real achievement carried out by scientists at CERN.… Read More »Anti-atom beam
A few days ago I got a message from my mate Jorge Soto… always great to hear from him, particularly with New Year wishes and even better with an interesting question: The question is related… Read More »Harvesting magnetic fields…
The misuse of maths in psychology “Think positively!” – a seemingly innocuous remark you might hear every so often… you might have even read it in one of those self-help books, or even from renowned… Read More »Wishful thinking or The Misuse of Maths in Psychology
Very pleased to see that the question/comment I sent to Keith Houston, the author of the excellent Shady Characters book. Here is the entry in his blog (the original is here): Miscellany № 42: ¡gnaborretni?… Read More »¡gnaborretni? – Reblog from Shady Characters
IoP Talk announced: Thoery, model and simulation: An involved association Jan 29th 2014, 19.00-20.00
