ScienceBlogs is well stocked with people who will comment at length on the latest news from biology or climate science, which is nice, because I don’t usually feel moved to remark on those subjects. The large amount of quality commentary on those subjects does make me fell like I ought to make a point of […]
Category: In the News
You Can’t Get There From Here
Buried beneath some unseemly but justified squee-ing, Scalzi links to an article about “counterfactal computation”, an experiment in which the group of Paul Kwiat group at Illinois managed to find the results of a quantum computation without running the computer at all. Really, there’s not much to say to that other than “Whoa.” The article […]
NYT Notes
A couple of science-related items from the New York Times: 1) An article on the Cafe Scientifique phenomenon, in which scientists put on monthly get-togethers for the general public, where recent scientific research is explained in layman’s terms. It’s nice to be reminded that there’s still interest in learning about science– given the numbe of […]