Joseph Romm on climate

We have heard all sorts of global warming (Climate change as per Bush’s policy makers) predictions and political spin around it. Scientific community is quite unanimous in voicing their concerns and putting the blame squarely on Time man of the year.
Dr Michio Kaku’s interview with scientist Joseph Romm was by the far the most chilling [...]

Big Idea

Nova has been producing excellent science documentaries lately. Their production quality is simply outstanding.  Today’s documentary on  KQED was all about E=mc(2). Titled Einstein’s Big Idea it was a quite a feast for both mind and eyes.  I would highly recommend this to anybody interested in physics and general stories of the  golden era [...]

Science breakthroughs

[Via Slashdot] BBC lists Science magazine’s breakthroughs of 2004 -

Winner: Water on Mars. Nasa’s Mars rovers
Spirit and Opportunity discovered compelling evidence for the prolonged
existence of salty, acidic water on the surface of the Red Planet.

Runner up: Indonesian "hobbit".
A team of archaeologists made the mind-blowing discovery of a new
species of human that stood only one [...]

The Poppy-Seed Bagel Theorem

On why mathematics is will always cool:

Recently, Hardin and Saff analyzed a method for generating large
numbers of points that are spread with near uniformity over practically
any surface of any dimension. Their effort is described in the cover
article of the November issue of Notices of the American Mathematical
Society.

The procedure has a surprising number of applications. Among [...]