Physicist and well-known science writer Lawrence Krauss a few months ago organized a symposium for a selected elite of physicists and cosmologists to discuss their work. Here he writes about some of the ideas that the notables talked about. It's not...
Tangled Bank #59 coming here August 2
The Tangled Bank -- as you probably know -- is a blog carnival -- a showcase for science bloggers to display their best work. The 59th edition will be hosted right here on Wednesday August 2.If you're a science blogger who'd like to participate, take...
Urban Wildlife Watch
Many people think that if you live in the city and you want to see wildlife, then you must visit the zoo or botanical gardens. But that is not at all true. Metropolitan areas are teeming with wildlife. There are trees, birds, grasses, flowers, weeds,...
Bright Idea: Urban Science TV Program
Okay, now that I am seriously thinking about this [ad]venture, I've got to figure out all of the ins and outs. I surfed the web today just to know what's out there about starting a science show program. No webpages with checklists or recommendations....
Introduction
A couple of years ago, a friend casually joked that I should have my own Science Television show. He thought I would make a great host of a science show that was specifically marketed to urban youth. I laughed about the idea and thought, how cute it...
Is the singularity near?
Just about two months ago, on a (typically) gorgeous spring day in May, I found myself back on the Stanford campus to attend a day's worth of talks by a distinguished panel of speakers at a symposium entitled, modestly enough, The Singularity Summit.What...
Mirror neurons
We had a pretty detailed article on mirror neurons back in March (here).The research discussed there is hardly the last word, of course. Now it is reported that infants less than a year old begin to anticipate the actions of others at just about the...
Increasing social isolation?
This research got a lot of coverage when it came out recently:Americans' Circle Of Friends Is Shrinking, New Study ShowsAmericans' circle of close confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no...
Music and other goodness
Press release offered without further comment (except that, at this moment, I'm listening to selections from Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and others):Music Thought To Enhance Intelligence, Mental Health And Immune SystemA recent volume of the Annals...
The wind from a black hole
Black holes are not black, of course. We can "see" many of them quite well -- the only controversy has been over whether what we "see" is the result of a black hole, as predicted by general relativity when a sufficiently large amount of matter is confined...
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