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The Best of Starts With A Bang: Top 10 for 2011

31 December 2011

Starts With a Bang is my favourite science blog. Ethan does a great job of spelling out, in (literally) graphic detail, all sorts of difficult but fundamental topics. He’s very prolific and funny, too.

Here are his top 10 science stories of the year, as described on his blog:

We Think Our Universe is Just One Tiny Bit of a Multiverse.
How the Entire Universe Could Have Come From Nothing, to Give Us Everything!
The First Atoms ever Formed in the Universe: Found, Direct from the Big Bang!
The James Webb Space Telescope: Saved from the Brink of Termination.
The Smallest Mini-Galaxy in the Universe: its Discovery and its Dark Matter.
Why Claims of Cold Fusion Don’t Stand Up to Science.
The Closest Supernova to us in a Generation.
The Saga of Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos: Are They Real?
The First Earth-like Exoplanets: Habitability and Size-wise.
The Large Hadron Collider’s First Evidence for the Higgs.

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Science Online London 2009

5 July 2009

Remember Science Blogging London I attended last year? Remember that I enjoyed it?

It’s back, this year as Science Online London 2009. Not just for bloggers anymore! From the conference’s website:

The name of the event was changed to reflect the variety of science-related activities happening online today. Topics include blogging and microblogging, online communities, open access and open data, new teaching and research tools, author identifiers and measuring the impact of research.

It is, once again, on a Saturday in late August at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Although topics are still being defined I’m sure it’ll be an interesting day, and so I have registered.

I believe there’s still a few spots left if you’re willing to part with a tenner (there are sandwiches!). Or you can read the blog, or follow the conference twitter or search for their hashtag.

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Quantum mechanics: maybe there are no “many worlds”, maybe it’s decoherence

21 November 2008

There’s a nifty quantum mechanics bitchfight difference of opinion going on at Uncertain Principles. Read the comments.

This decoherence approach is not one that I’d reach about before, but I like it. I must admit that the “many worlds” notion always seemed to me more like a comfortable notion that we could get our heads around rather than a genuine interpretation about what might be happening.

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Sciblog complete

30 August 2008

Good final session, and a few goodbye drinks, and Science Blogging 2008 is over. It was a good day. It’s true that much of what was discussed was about how hardcore scientists deal with (or don’t) blogging. Some was about communication with the public, though. And met some good folks, too.

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