Nov 17, 2012
Moving On
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This is my last post on Skepsisfera . It was good while it lasted, but I'm moving on to a different style of blogging. All posts will st...
Feb 4, 2012
The Elsevier Boycott
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At this point, everyone must already know about the scientists boycott of the publisher Elsevier. As for today, more than 3000 scientists si...
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Dec 22, 2011
There's no "Science crisis of Faith"
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I don't like to much to criticize other people's work, but came to learn that it's an important part of letting people aware of...
Dec 20, 2011
Bayes and Particle Physics
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I have just read a very nice paper on how badly confidence levels are interpreted as probabilities of events in Particle Physics: Pro...
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Oct 5, 2011
Nobel Prize of Physics for Accelerating Universe
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I think it's a little late for this now, but as I had this draft on my blogger, I thought I'd better publish it or delete it. I dec...
Aug 9, 2011
Never fails...
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From Science Jokes Four stages of acceptance: i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse,...
Jun 14, 2011
Solving Mazes on Mathematica
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Just a quick post as I found this very interesting article in the Wolfram blog : aMAZEing Image Processing in Mathematica , by Jon M...
Jun 10, 2011
Negative Entropy and Quantum Observers
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I've just read this interesting paper from arXiv: The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy , Rio et al. Landauer's erasur...
Jun 3, 2011
Stupid World
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I've been blogging about the world entering a New Dark Age for some time, but news like this one make me think that instead of Dark...
May 27, 2011
The Dark Side of Scientists: A Tale of Complex Networks
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I'm not citing names, first because they would be meaningless for most people, second because I'm not stupid and my future job may ...
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Feb 22, 2011
Talking about Time, Mach and Information
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Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of receiving Julian Barbour here at Aston for a seminar. Julian is a singular physicist and I really adm...
Feb 17, 2011
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
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This very illuminating paragraph is a comment to the blog post Bloodbath for Science , posted in the Cosmic Variance blog, that talks ...
Jan 30, 2011
Molecular Random Tilings
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I am still organising the seminars in our group every Friday. In the last one, we had a very interesting one given by Prof. Juan Garrah...
Jan 24, 2011
A Note about Footnotes
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I know this seems completely off-topic and unnecessary, but one of the advantages of having a blog is to be able to make your complaints ...
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Jan 23, 2011
Anthropic Principle
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All definitions of the Anthropic Principle can be classified into two groups: the trivial and the wrong. I know that the above asse...
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