Is the universe still expanding? If so, how much can it expand and will it eventually implode? No, no, no. Before the dark energy was discovered there were three possibilities: […]
Meet the Laniakea supercluster
by Elmo Tempel from Nature 513, 41–42 (04 September 2014) doi:10.1038/513041a An analysis of a three-dimensional map of galaxies and their velocities reveals the hitherto unknown edges of the large […]
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The advantages of video gaming
Playing video games is a popular leisure activity among children and adults, and may therefore potentially influence brain structure. We have previously shown a positive association between probability of gray […]
The strange death of Joan Vollmer
Thanks to Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs meet Joan Vollmer in 1946. After a brief relationship, she became his common-law wife. The couple used a lot of drugs: benzedrine, narcotics, amphetamine, […]
The Arcane Art of Mathematics
Jerome Bruner said somewhere that an educated man must not be dazzled by the myth that advanced knowledge is the result of wizardry. Unfortunately, mathematicians and educators conspire to maintain […]
What you give
Donald Duck’s 80th birthday: a brief analysis of Pedrocchi’s stories
Donald Duck makes his debut on the 9th June, 1934 in the short film The wise little hen with Peter Pig as his first shoulder. Directed by Wilfred Jackson and […]
BRAIN project meets physics
by Emily Underwood from Science 30 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6187 pp. 954-955 doi: 10.1126/science.344.6187.954 Neuroscientists were over the moon in April 2013 when President Barack Obama announced a […]
Doing the math in Berlin
by Kai Kupferschmidt, Gretchen Vogel, from Science 23 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6186 pp. 791-792; doi: 10.1126/science.344.6186.791 When Johanna Wanka was a mathematician in communist East Germany, any foray […]
A new way to see the stars
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arXiv: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three implementations of Internet searches […]